Section
on Treatment Research Solutions
Putting Science to Work through Products and Services
Senior Program Manager: Meghan Love
Now available: streamlined, more affordable version of Risk and Needs Triage™, a web-based decision support tool fostering cost- and quality-effective assignment of drug involved offenders to the community based program best suited to assessed levels of criminogenic risk and need for clinical treatment.
Also available:
CASPAR-C™, helping time-strapped treatment counselors connect patients to the auxiliary services they frequently need to achieve recovery.
TRI-CEP™, a web-based tool helping Courts and their stakeholders improve outcomes by tracking and adaptively managing clients, and evaluating programs for substance involved offenders.
Ms. Meghan Love, Senior Program Manager, has significant past project experience that includes management of counselor training studies on electronic resource guides linking substance abuse patients to low-cost auxiliary services (NIDA and NIAAA funding), and coordination of a NIDA R21 Exploratory Grant evaluating a concurrent recovery monitoring project in the state of Delaware. From 1998 to 2004 she managed the ONDCP-funded DENS project, a multi-site electronic data collection and reporting system that tracked patterns of drug and alcohol abuse across the nation. Other NIDA-funded studies she managed include, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, a study of patient-treatment matching utilizing the ASI as the primary data collection tool; development of an Employee Assistance Program survey estimating the prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse in school and workplace populations; and development of the Substance Abuse Relapse Reduction System (SARRS) for early detection of individuals at high risk for relapse during the critical first six months of the post-treatment recovery period. The empirically-developed products and services Ms. Love has helped TRI introduce include the Risk and Needs Triage™ helping court officials assign drug-involved offenders to the appropriate disposition; TRI-CEP™, a web-based system to adaptively manage clients and conduct problem-solving court evaluation; and CASPAR-C™, an electronic patient assessment and referral system.
Launched in early 2008, the Treatment Research Solutions Group furthers TRI’s founding goal of translating research findings into useful and practical tools and services for treatment providers, policy makers, and parents. The work of the Group follows early translational activities targeted to counselors, building on the organization’s longstanding connection with the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) and leading to training protocols and the DENS™ electronic data collection system. (In March 2010, NREPP designated CASPAR, (a process combining DENS with an electronic Resource Guide) as an evidence-based practice promoting validated assessment and referral of clients to auxiliary services essential to long-term recovery.)
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from drugs and alcohol, and for court officials and their stakeholders
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