The article responds to a national survey of State rehabilitation job placement personnel and synthesizes the materials received from 42 states pertaining to placement efforts, personnel, and duties. (EA)

In addition to eliminating illicit drug use, rehabilitation programs must help clients find both a meaningful way to spend the time that was formerly spent hustling money for drugs and a legitimate way to earn the money that was formerly provided by hustling. One solution to both these problems is to help ex-addicts make the transition to…

This is the second of two supplements to a manual on the self-evaluation of drug abuse treatment programs. Data based on treatment outcome information that agencies and clinics routinely collect or have available in the files of individual clients are presented. While it is possible to use this volume without referring to the discussion of…

Alcoholic women living with their children are recognized as a treatment population needing special environmental support as part of their recovery. The Family Rehabilitation Coordinator Project is a pilot research and training effort to aid the recovery of alcoholic women and their children and families. Trainees work in the home of an alcoholic…

Part II of the 'Directory of Programs and Services for the Deaf in the United States' consists of information on rehabilitation programs and services. (LS)

The Connecticut correctional school district has established introductory programs of vocational education supplemented by on-the-job training programs. The combination of educational and industrial programing is directed towards meeting the educational and vocational needs of inmates. (Author/JB)

Presented before the Section on Mental Health, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 30, 1968.

This evaluation of Florida's extensive system (from 140 to 395 youths) of self-contained juvenile training schools (TS) profiles the delinquent client population and examines the recidivism rate. After discussing the dangers of using recidivism as the sole indicator of rehabilitation, the study's methodology is explained. A random sample follows…

The Division of Resource Development of the National Institute on Drug Abuse is giving increasing emphasis to the needs and concerns of women, both in treatment and as workers in the field. Recently there has also been increased interest in the problems of the female substance abuser on the part of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health…

Elements of a treatment program, Comprehensive Vocationally Oriented Psychotherapy, are presented in terms of youth contact efforts, job opportunities, community outreach, individualized teaching, program administration and job matching activities. An initial program evaluation, conducted on three levels of the boys' functioning (personality…

This record of the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control contains testimonies addressing the problems facing drug abusing women. The extensive prescribing of legal drugs such as tranquilizers, sedatives, pain killers, and stimulants is examined. The problems of polydrug abuse and alcohol abuse in combination with other drugs are also…

THIS PROJECT WAS INITIATED TO HELP PUBLIC SCHOOLS MEET SOME OF THE MAJOR REHABILITATION NEEDS OF MENTALLY RETARDED PUPILS THROUGH A COORDINATED PROGRAM OF SERVICES PROVIDED BY SPECIAL EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION. THE 24 STEPS IN THE PROJECT INCLUDED--(1) A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT OUTLINED INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND RECIPROCAL…

THIS IS A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT OF COOPERATION BETWEEN A REHABILITATION CENTER AND THREE LARGE INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES. OVER A 3-YEAR PERIOD, 56 WORKERS WHO HAD BEEN INJURED ON THE JOB AND HOSPITALIZED WERE ADMITTED TO THE REHABILITATION CENTER. OF THE 50 WORKERS STUDIED, THE AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY IN THE CENTER WAS 36 DAYS. A FOLLOWUP STUDY,…