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Substance Abuse Treatment Programs of Regional and National Significance

Substance Abuse Treatment Programs of Regional and National Significance (PRNS) is composed of a variety of grants and activities intended to improve the quality and availability of drug treatment services.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • It is not clear that all activities best serve the program purpose. Some activities more directly expand access to drug treatment; however, the relationship between those activities and activities to improve the quality of treatment, such as training and communications, is less clear.
  • The program had not regularly used performance information to improve outcomes, and has little data to indicate progress on performance measures. These issues are being addressed by a new automated performance reporting system. Grantees are now reporting on substance use, employment, criminal justice activity, and reduced health/behavioral/social consequences.
  • A previous evaluation of drug treatment services grants indicated that the program has a positive impact. The 1997 National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study indicates that clients served by program funds significantly reduced their alcohol and other drug use.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing an automated system for better and more timely data collection and reporting.
  • Implementing a decisionmaking process that considers performance data when determining grant funding.
  • Implementing a drug treatment voucher program to expand access to treatment.

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