Introduction
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Keywords
Alcoholism, drug abuse, mental health, women, physical abuse, sexual abuse, services integration
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1300/J020v22n03_01
Abstract
The Women, Co-occurring Disorders and Violence Study is the first effort to address the significant lack of appropriate services for women with alcohol and other drug and mental health diagnoses who have experienced physical and/or sexual abuse. This program is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's three Centers: the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Center for Mental Health Services. The nine participating sites each developed a services integration intervention addressing the multiple needs of women with co-occurring disorders and histories of violence. As participants in a cross-site initiative, each site created their interventions within the guidelines established by a Federal Steering Committee. Under these guidelines, interventions must be gender-specific, culturally competent, trauma-informed and trauma-specific, comprehensive and integrated, and involve consumers/survivors/recovering persons (CSRs) in substantive and meaningful ways. In this work, each site describes their strategies for developing strategies for integrating services at two levels: at the clinical/individual level and at the services or system level. Within this framework, sites have created programs that are responsive to the strengths and needs of their own communities.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, v. 22, issue 3-4, p. 1-18
Scholar Commons Citation
Veysey, Bonita M. and Clark, Colleen, "Introduction" (2005). Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications. 344.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mhlp_facpub/344
