Analysis of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disparities in the Appalachian Region and Access to Treatment Services.
A collaboration between NORC’s Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis and its Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Criminal Justice Studies departments this study was conducted for the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to assess substance abuse and mental health disparities, and access to treatment services, within the Appalachian region. More
Evaluation of Primary Care/Mental Health Integration Project.
NORC is working with Family Services Inc. to evaluate the effectiveness of a Behavioral Health/Primary Care (BH/PC) integration project for adults with serious mental illness in Montgomery County Maryland. More
Evaluation of the Second Chance Act Adult Demonstration Projects.
Funded by the National Institute of Justice, this project is designed to evaluate the Second Chance programs which were designed to facilitate the successful re-entry of prisoners to their communities and include strategies to reduce recidivism and subsequent criminal behavior, enhance employment and earnings, facilitate retraining, stabilize housing, and reduce the instance of substance abuse. More
Social Ecology of Maternal Substance Use.
Pregnancy is a key opportunity to affect the epidemiology and to enhance reduction of women’s tobacco and problem alcohol use. The opportunities to provide pregnant women with tobacco and alcohol cessation resources appear to be strongest when integrated into community-based health services, with attention to generating support in mothers’ networks of family and friends. With support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, this secondary data analyses project investigates the role of neighborhood structural aspects and social processes in association with maternal alcohol and tobacco use in the perinatal and early childhood parenting periods. More