Recovery Works Resource Center

Below are links to findings from various journals, websites, articles, organizations and manuals.

Topics include best practices related to vocational planning and employment of individuals with substance abuse disorders, related treatment issues, welfare reform, and cultural competence.

Integration
This section demonstrates the value and results of integrating vocational services with substance abuse treatment. This section's focus is to show how employment can play a key role in recovery from substance abuse disorders.

TAPS: 1-29
Technical Assistance Publications are publications, manuals, and guides developed by CSAT to offer practical responses to emerging issues and concerns in the substance abuse treatment field tie.samhsa.gov/Taps/index.html

Project InVEST
Integrating Employment Preparation into Chemical Dependency Treatment
Click here to download a conference presentation: ASAP Conference, January 2004

TIP 43
The TIP emphasizes the importance of supportive services such as counseling, mental health, medical services, and vocational rehabilitation in facilitating recovery for patients Specifically, the document outlines relevant best practices
http://www.samhsa.gov/news/newsreleases/051025_tip43.htm

2005 National Survey on Drug Use & Health
Provides the latest data on prevalence and correlates of substance use, serious mental illness, related problems, and treatment in the U.S.
www.oas.samhsa.gov/nsduhLatest.htm

People in Recovery Make Good Employees
www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/people-in-recovery-make-good.html

Motivational Interviewing: An Approach to Helping & Vocational Interventions
Dan Duryea Presentation: 06-16-2005 Buffalo Psychiatric Center
Click here to download the PowerPoint Presentation
Click here to download PowerPoint Viewer

Best Practices
www.ceattc.org/nidacsat_bpr.asp?id=LGBT
http://www.motivationalinterview.org/index.shtml
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.chapter.61302
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/BKD342

SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies
www.oas.samhsa.gov/topics.cfm

The Need for Vocational Services
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/bkd381/38d.aspx?

Treatment Improvement Protocol Series
Number 1 through Number 45
www.treatment.org/Externals/tips.html

Work as a Priority
www.mentalhealth.org/publications/allpubs/SMA03-3834/default.asp

Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocational Services
dol.gov/asp/programs/drugs/workingpartners/herron-system.pps

TIP 38: Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocational Services
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/bkd381/default.aspx?

TIP 29: Substance Use Disorder Treatment for People with Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
www.health.org/govpubs/BKD288/

TIP 9: Assessment and Treatment of Patients with Coexisting Mental Illness and Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
www.health.org/govpubs/bkd134/default.aspx

NIDA - Research on Employment and Substance Abuse Treatment
www.drugabuse.gov/pdf/blending/Janikowski.pdf

Vocational Services for Substance Abuse Treatment Clients www.treatment.org/communique/comm98W/Vocational.html

SAMHSA
www.samhsa.gov

Substance Abuse and Vocational Rehabilitation
www.infography.com/content/734059003057.html

Vocational Screener Helps Methadone Patients Overcome Job Barriers
http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol11N3/Jobs.html

MICA (Mental Illness and Chemical Abuse)
This section’s focus is to increase awareness of and knowledge about the individual experiencing mental illness concurrent with a substance abuse disorder. The focus is on service systems, treatment approaches and programs that address the vocational rehabilitation needs of individuals with co-existing disorders.

Dr. Ken Minkoff
Dr. Minkoff is recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on integrated treatment of individuals with co-occurring psychiatric and substance disorders (ICOPSD) or "dual diagnosis".
www.kenminkoff.com

Employing People with Serious Mental Illness
www.dol.gov/asp/programs/drugs/workingpartners/cook-mental_illness.pps

Best Practices
www.athealth.com/Practitioner/particles/Interview_KennethMinkoff.html
http://www.motivationalinterview.org/index.shtml
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.chapter.61302
http://www.health.org/govpubs/BKD342/

SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies
www.oas.samhsa.gov/topics.cfm

New SAMHSA Technical Assistance Center Available to Aid in Treatment of Co-occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders
www.samhsa.gov/news/newsreleases/040108nr_cooc_ta.htm

Co-Occuring Disorder Practice Guidelines
www.bhrm.org

Treatment Improvement Protocol Series
Number 1 through Number 45
www.treatment.org/Externals/tips.html

Serious Mental Illness and Its Co-Occurrence with Substance Use Disorders, 2002
oas.samhsa.gov/CoD/CoD.htm

Dual Disorders Special Topic
www.treatment.org/Topics/dual_resources.html

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/NTIES/ebm-sheets.html

Dual Diagnosis Publications
www.dartmouth.edu/~psychrc/pubdual.html

ATTC: Substance Abuse and Coexisting Disabilities
http://www.ireta.org/attc/resources/newsletters/rl_2-1_disabilities.pdf

Dual Diagnosis Bibliographies
http://128.83.80.200/tattc/DivCD.html

Dual Diagnosis Dialogue List
http://www.treatment.org/Topics/DualDialogues.html

Integrated Treatment
http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/ebp/adult_integratedtreatment.htm

Dual Disorders Special Topic
http://www.treatment.org/Topics/dual.html

Cultural Competence and Vocational Services
Cultural competence is a set of behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enable that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross cultural situations.

Substance Abuse in Women: Does Gender Matter?
www.psychiatrictimes.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=196902111

SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies
www.oas.samhsa.gov/topics.cfm

Treatment Improvement Protocol Series
Number 1 through Number 45
www.treatment.org/Externals/tips.html

Cultural Competence Resources
www.med.yale.edu/library/education/culturalcomp/

Some sex-neutral and sex-specific factors related to employment among substance abuse clients
www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0978/3_25/55816080/p1/article.jhtml

BIBLIOGRAPHIES
http://lib.adai.washington.edu/biblist.htm

Hispanics and Substance Abuse
http://128.83.80.200/tattc/Hispanics.html

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Issue 20(3)/2001 pp 215-224
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07405472

Culturally Competent Treatment Practices
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12039613&dopt=Abstract

Diversity
http://128.83.80.200/tattc/DivCD.html

Drug treatment effectiveness: African-American culture in recovery.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11824698&dopt=Abstract