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Shafer MS, Prendergast M, Melnick G, et al. A cluster randomized trial of an organizational process improvement intervention for improving the assessment and case planning of offenders: a Study Protocol. Health Justice. 2014;2(1)doi: 10.1186/2194-7899-2-1.
Shafer, M. S., Prendergast, M., Melnick, G., Stein, L. A., Welsh, W. N. (2014). A cluster randomized trial of an organizational process improvement intervention for improving the assessment and case planning of offenders: a Study Protocol. Health & justice, 2(1), . https://doi.org/10.1186/2194-7899-2-1
Shafer, Michael S, et al. "A cluster randomized trial of an organizational process improvement intervention for improving the assessment and case planning of offenders: a Study Protocol." Health & justice vol. 2,1 (2014). doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/2194-7899-2-1
Shafer MS, Prendergast M, Melnick G, Stein LA, Welsh WN. A cluster randomized trial of an organizational process improvement intervention for improving the assessment and case planning of offenders: a Study Protocol. Health Justice. 2014;2(1). doi: 10.1186/2194-7899-2-1. PMID: 25554738; PMCID: PMC4279850.
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Health Justice. 2014;2(1). doi: 10.1186/2194-7899-2-1.

A cluster randomized trial of an organizational process improvement intervention for improving the assessment and case planning of offenders: a Study Protocol.

Health & justice

Michael S Shafer, Michael Prendergast, Gerald Melnick, Lynda A Stein, Wayne N Welsh,

PMID: 25554738 PMCID: PMC4279850 DOI: 10.1186/2194-7899-2-1

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Organizational Process Improvement Intervention (OPII), conducted by the NIDA-funded Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies consortium of nine research centers, examined an organizational intervention to improve the processes used in correctional settings to assess substance abusing offenders, develop case plans, transfer this information to community-based treatment agencies, and monitor the services provided by these community based treatment agencies.

METHODS/DESIGN: A multi-site cluster randomized design was used to evaluate an inter-agency organizational process improvement intervention among dyads of correctional agencies and community based treatment agencies. Linked correctional and community based agencies were clustered among nine (9) research centers and randomly assigned to an early or delayed intervention condition. Participants included administrators, managers, and line staff from the participating agencies; some participants served on interagency change teams while other participants performed agency tasks related to offender services. A manualized organizational intervention that includes the use of external organizational coaches was applied to create and support interagency change teams that proceeded through a four-step process over a planned intervention period of 12 months. The primary outcome of the process improvement intervention was to improve processes associated with the assessment, case planning, service referral and service provision processes within the linked organizations.

DISCUSSION: Providing substance abuse offenders with coordinated treatment and access to community-based services is critical to reducing offender recidivism. Results from this study protocol will provide new and critical information on strategies and processes that improve the assessment and case planning for such offenders as they transition between correctional and community based systems and settings. Further, this study extends current knowledge of and methods for, the study of evidence-based practice adoption and implementation.

Keywords: Assessment; Case planning; Change teams; Correctional treatment systems; Facilitators; Multi-site cluster randomized design

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