@article{930cb3c07065444b902b37cac0fc8b63,
title = "Women-focused treatment agencies and process improvement: Strategies to increase client engagement",
abstract = "Behavioral health treatment agencies often struggle to keep clients engaged in treatment. Women clients often have additional factors such as family responsibilities, financial difficulties, or abuse histories that provide extra challenges to remaining in care. As part of a national initiative, four women-focused drug treatment agencies used process improvement to address treatment engagement. Interviews and focus groups with staff assessed the nature and extent of interventions. Women-focused drug treatment agencies selected relational-based interventions to engage clients in treatment and improved four-week treatment retention from 66% to 76%. Process improvement interventions in women-focused treatment may be useful to improve engagement.",
keywords = "Engagement, Process improvement, Substance use disorder, Women",
author = "Wisdom, {Jennifer P.} and Kim Hoffman and Elke Rechberger and Kay Seim and Betta Owens",
note = "Funding Information: The Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) was supported through grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Evaluation activities were supported through awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (46876 and 50165), the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (through a subcontract from Northrop Grumman Corporation, PIC-STAR-SC-03–044), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA018282). National Program Office activities were supported through awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (48464), the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (through a subcontract from Northrop Grumman Corporation, PIC-STAR-SC-04–035).",
year = "2009",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1080/02703140802384693",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "32",
pages = "69--87",
journal = "Women and Therapy",
issn = "0270-3149",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "1",
}