Client Registry Expansion Project. Client Registry Lookup (CR) is an information system which cross-references consumers/clients among DSHS programs. Client Registry is a tool that helps DSHS team-staff coordinate services to clients multiply serviced in the department. Client Registry has been identified as an important tool for case-managers participating in the No Wrong Door implementation.
Evaluation of Second Use of Job Search for Returning TANF Clients. Getting welfare recipients employed is on the top of every state's agenda. However, as the more employable adults move off the welfare caseloads altogether, and as national and local economic growth slows, former TANF recipients are returning to welfare in greater numbers. In Washington State, seventy percent of the entrants to welfare are former TANF recipients. Question becomes: is getting former recipients to repeat work search training a useful expenditure of public money?
Employment Monitoring Data Project (EMDP) coordinates client and employment data for use in the research and evaluation of social and health services and their effects on the employment outcomes of service recipients.
First Steps Database (FSDB) was designed to evaluate and monitor programs and services for low income and other high risk women and children in Washington State.
Mental Health. This is a outpatient mental health services utilization project.
Safe Babies, Safe Moms Evaluation. The First Steps Database (FSDB) has provided a unique opportunity to study women, who have been identified as substance abusers, during and after pregnancy, as well as their children's outcomes. RDA is developing an expanded database including administrative data and client-specific data for women who receive services through three pilot projects known as the Comprehensive Program Evaluation Project (CPEP).
SSI (Supplemental Security Income) Cost Offset Research & Evaluation. Evaluation project based on DSHS administrative records to determine the change in the use of services and costs for SSI clients who receive chemical dependency treatment. Contact: Sharon Estee, telephone: (360) 902-7655
Temporary Assist Needy Families (TANF). This project is developing the capability for DSHS to report data to the Federal government (The Administration for Families and Children) as required by the welfare reform legislation which passed congress in 1996.
TAKE CHARGE. This project will test the effectiveness of intensive follow-up services, in combination with client-centered practice by providers, on the successful use of contraceptive methods by clients.
Vocational Rehabilitation Project. The division of vocational rehabilitation asked us to identify the major reasons for the decline in rehabilitation rates that occurred after the year 2000. We conducted a multivariate analysis of two cohorts of clients, one before and one after the year 2000.
Washington State Community Prevention Study – CORE GIS. Project collects social indicators to produce profiles of risk and protective factors for substance abuse prevention planning. Contact: Vera Barga, telephone: (360)902-0732
Washington State Medicaid Integration Project (WMIP).
This project was developed to examine the potential benefits of providing services
in a more integrated fashion to aged and disabled clients who receive medical care,
mental health treatment, and long-term care services.
Washington State Needs Assessment Household Survey.
DSHS has received a grant award from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to conduct a statewide
household survey to determine the need for substance abuse treatment among adults
in Washington State. RDA researchers will carry out the survey in collaboration
with the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse.
Washington State Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (WASBIRT) project provide brief interventions, brief therapy, and, in some cases, chemical dependency treatment to emergency department patients who screen positive for substance use disorders.
