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Download full textGoodwin, Gretta L. – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for managing the care and custody of approximately 175,000 federal inmates--an estimated 20 percent of whom have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review BOP's efforts to provide drug treatment to federal inmates. This report (1)…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Substance Abuse
Underwood, Lee A.; Dailey, Frances L. L.; Merino, Carrie; Crump, Yolanda – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2015
The results of the Program Evaluation show the OJJ Statewide Sex Offender Treatment program is exceptionally productive in meeting over 90% of its established performance markers. These markers included successful screening and assessment of risk and psychosocial needs, completion of initial and master treatment plans, establishment of sex…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Juvenile Justice, Sexual Abuse, Psychoeducational Methods
Direct linkZajac, Jennifer J.; DeGel, Jessica; Fish, Larry – University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development, 2007
The focus of this evaluation study is the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Residential Treatment Curriculum [PTSD RTC]) to treat PTSD in female juvenile offenders. The overall purpose of the evaluation was to assess the implementation of the PTSD RTC at treatment facilities with female juvenile offenders and to evaluate the effect of the intervention…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Quasiexperimental Design, Residential Programs
Graebner, Oliver F. – Training Sch Bull, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Services, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedHile, Matthew G.; Walbran, Bonnie B. – Mental Retardation, 1991
Behavior of direct care staff serving clients with mental retardation in 13 units of a large state-operated residential facility was observed. Results indicated that the activities of direct-care staff were influenced by the client's functioning level, the presence of professional staff, the location of the observation, and the resident- staff…
Descriptors: Behavior, Caregivers, Institutionalized Persons, Interaction
Cortazzo, Arnold D.; And Others – 1972
The study of the divisional concept, a residential model to intensive programing for optimal resident development, reported on effectiveness of intensive, specialized treatment programs on growth and development of retarded residents and compared effectiveness of four divisional or intensive, specialized treatment approaches to single, large…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Exceptional Child Research
Williams, Jack D.; and others – Amer J Orthopsychiat, 1969
Descriptors: Day Programs, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Stenhjem, Pam – National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET), University of Minnesota, 2006
This brief describes two exceptional model programs for adjudicated youth with disabilities: Woodland Hills Residential Facility in Duluth, Minnesota and the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Walter McGinnis High School in Red Wing, Minnesota. The brief shares best practices from research about these programs as well as insight, commentary, and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Individualized Instruction, Juvenile Justice, Disabilities
National Association for Retarded Children, Arlington, TX. South Central Regional Office. – 1972
The third of four booklets on residential programing for the mentally retarded is intended to help parents evaluate residential services and participate in decisions about program design and implementation. Areas of appropriate program emphasis are indicated for different age groups and for the various degrees of mental retardation from profound…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Services, Guidelines, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedTari, Andor J.; Fenn, LeeAnn – Mental Retardation and Learning Disability Bulletin, 1988
The article briefly reviews the history of deinstitutionalization and supports the development and use of a comprehensive evaluation process to evaluate the human and environmental factors that affect the potential for successful placement of handicapped persons in community-based residential facilities. (JW)
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Evaluation Methods
Finch, Thomas E.; And Others – 1976
Presented is the final report of a project designed to examine the nature of educational and socialization programs within 90 institutions serving emotionally disturbed (ED) children (primarily 6-18 years old). In an introductory section, study goals and objectives are noted to include determination of what educational programs are available to…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
McFalls, James – 1983
The paper briefly discusses 12 critical issues that significantly affect program success in reducing severe self-injurious behavior (SIB) in group homes. The paper emphasizes the necessity of: (1) a process approach to the development and monitoring of treatment; (2) demythologizing the self-injurious client; (3) discussing and clarifying legal…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Group Homes, Institutional Personnel, Institutionalized Persons
Minnesota State Planning Agency, St. Paul. – 1982
This two-volume compilation of 21 papers discusses issues stemming from the Welsch versus Likins suit (1974). The suit led to the 1980 Welsch-Noot consent decree requiring the State of Minnesota to reduce the overall population of mentally retarded persons residing in state institutions by nearly one-third over 6 years. The 11 papers in Volume I…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Behavior Problems, Community Programs
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1982
This report documents the 1981-82 evaluation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, Part B, Institutional Facilities Program carried out through the Division of Special Education of the New York City public schools. Using a diagnostic-prescriptive methodology, the program provided after-school and pull-out individualized remedial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Career Education, Delinquency
