Two years ago, we launched the
Darwin Project,
an agency-wide drive to develop and streamline our daily work and business practices.
By focusing on six core areas (human resources, clinical, fiscal, administrative, support services and development), staff and management worked in cross-discipline work teams to build and improve infrastructure and client care.
In addition to better practices, a key project outcome is the agency’s involvement in
Paths to
Recovery, a national initiative to help treatment organizations to improve their access and retention rates.
A project of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation®,
Paths to Recovery will provide funding to selected treatment agencies across the country so they build or improve their business processes. Also, the project will allow treatment facilities to learn from each other by sharing and publishing
Paths to
Recovery (via the website) its strategies, successes and lessons learned.
As part of that peer learning, CAB’s Darwin Project has provided two case studies for publication on the Paths to Recovery website.
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In 2002, CAB was selected to participate in the National Institute of Drug Abuse’s Clinical Trials Network (CTN)--a network of researchers and community treatment providers to implement drug-abuse research across the country.
CAB is part of the Northern New England node, which consists of researchers at McLean Hospital/Harvard University and four other community treatment programs. Dr. Michael Levy, CAB’s director of clinical treatment services, is a member of the National Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the entire CTN.
The project aims to bridge the perennial research-treatment gap. Previously, research was often conducted in controlled environments, with limited input from the real-life, diverse populations who enter drug treatment. Now, by giving treatment centers a key role in the clinical trials and treatment studies, this project will have more day-to-day, real-life applicability.
You can read updates on the clinical trials at the National Institute on Drug Abuse
website.
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CARF, the
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation
Facilities, announced that CAB Health & Recovery Services, Inc. has been accredited for a period of three years for its Danvers and Boston-based detox and methadone programs.
CARF is an independent, not-for-profit accrediting body which promotes the quality, value and outcomes of services across human service and rehabilitation facilities in the U.S., Canada and Europe. It accredits only those programs that meet its rigorous standards.
For our detox and methadone clients, the accreditation is an endorsement of service standards and quality patient-care. |
