Yes2Kids Conference Presentations: Update

The John Challis presentation on co-occurring disorders from the Yes2Kids conference is now available, as well as a zip file with all 3 presentations sponsored by GOCCC.

Treatment Program Cost Analysis

Michael French, an economist at the University of Miami, and his colleagues have developed a cost-assessment tool, DATCAP, for substance abuse treatment programs. Their tools help to identify the different types of costs associated with running a program and their relative contribution to treatment costs. Here is an excerpt from this longer description:

The Drug Abuse Treatment Cost Analysis Program (DATCAP) is a cost data collection instrument and interview guide designed to be used in a variety of medical treatment and social service settings. The instrument is intended to collect and organize detailed information on resources used in service delivery and their associated dollar cost. Resource categories include personnel, supplies and materials, contracted services, buildings and facilities, equipment, and miscellaneous items. The instrument also collects information on program revenues and client caseflows. The DATCAP instruments are available for download in four separate versions, each available in a choice of Acrobat PDF and Microsoft Excel formats. The PDF-format is intended to view or print the instrument; the Microsoft Excel (XLS) format is a spreadsheet intended for data entry and results analysis.

This is a paper reporting the cost estimates for 85 different treatment programs, including details on how the data were collected. Data on some adolescent programs are included. For additional information on the project or to have their project help analyze your program, follow this link.

Data Integration Talk

Below is information on an upcoming presentation in Nashville being organized through Meharry Medical College. (Note: I will check to see whether this is open to anybody, or if it is by invitation only.)

Establishing and Maintaining a Community Data Repository
Thursday, 19 April 2007
11:30am – 3:00pm (Lunch provided)
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
901 Broadway
Nashville, TN

The speakers are:

• Phyllis Betts, Ph.D.
  Founder and Director
  Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action and Info Works
  University of Memphis
  
  
• Richard Janikowski, JD
  Founder and Director
  Shared Urban Data System
  University of Memphis

For more information or to RSVP: Jackie Estill, jestill@mmc.edu, 615-327-5831.

Yes2Kids Conference Presentations

Two of the three T-ACT sponsored presentations from the Yes2Kids conference are available in the archives:

• Andy Finch's on recovery schools, and
• Rob Vincent's on the True North project in Washington State.

Once I have the third presentation, I will post it along with a zip file that contains all three presentations.

Update:The John Challis presentation on co-occurring disorders is now available, as well as a zip file with all 3 presentations sponsored by GOCCC.