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RSAP websiteAn information clearinghouse for federal and Rural Substance Abuse Partnership (RSAP) state resources around substance use & abuse in general.  This site focuses on substance abuse indicators for twenty rural states nationally and Maine in particular. Substance use related data includes: state demographics, use & abuse, youth, treatment, trafficking & arrests, and injury & death. Downloadable GIS maps available.

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Rural Substance Abuse Partnership

Recent Research/Reports

Evaluation of the 2003A Major Grants Program of the Maine Health Access Foundation (December, 2006).
 Full report
(pdf, 357KB)Executive Summary (pdf, 67 KB)

Poverty in Maine, 2006

Substance Abuse Needs Assessment for a Therapeutic Community in Maine June 17, 2005 

Poverty in Maine, 2003

Maine Drug Related Mortality Patterns: 1997 - 2002

New England 800 Project Evaluation
This project is a three-year evaluation of a demonstration welfare-to-work project in Waldoboro, Maine.

WINGS for Family and Children Project Evaluation
This research developed a comprehensive, and community-based system of service delivery with the cooperation of service providers and parents involved in the system of care.  The goals of the program include inducing the collaboration of parents, encouraging family empowerment, providing individualized care and improving access to services, by relying primarily on home-and community-based care.

Needs Assessment for the Maine HIV Community Planning Group
This research assisted in the development of a statewide HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment needs assessment.  

Rural Children’s Mental Health: Epidemiology of Child Psychopathology in Rural Maine
The Rural Children's Health Study was a study aimed at determining how children's health and behavior change as they get older, about the health and protective factors of living in a rural area, about how families use services for their children's health and emotional health, and about the barriers that may keep them from getting the help they need.  The project was centered in Piscataquis, Penobscot, Washington, and Hancock Counties.

Inter-Disciplinary Training for Health Care for Rural Areas Project (ITHCRA)
ITHCRA is a federally funded project designed to improve the delivery of rural health care through multi-level innovative interdisciplinary team education and training. It seeks to expand health care expertise beyond the sole practitioner and reduce provider isolation in rural areas, through
a computer-mediated communications system used to promote effective planning and establish coordinated intervention procedures.

Inter-Disciplinary Training for Health Care for Rural Areas Project 2000
The ITHCRA-2000 Consortium will develop on-line curriculum for gerontology/geriatrics and infant mental health, in partnership with community and provider organizations and other academic institutions.  These partnerships will serve as models to stimulate the responsiveness of health professions education to community needs and the changing demands of the rural health care marketplace.

Maine Consortium of Partnerships
This consortium includes academic and community organizations concerned about the education, training, and distribution of health care professionals. 

POWER Project: Evaluation Final Report, December 1998
The POWER Project was a three year welfare-to-work demonstration project conducted by Coastal Enterprises, Inc. of Wiscasset, Maine from October 1996 through September 1999. 

Project Pioneer: Final Evaluation Report, December, 1997
Project Pioneer was a three-year welfare to work demonstration project conducted from October 1994 through September 1997, designed to assist 150 AFDC and other low-income Androscoggin county residents become economically self-sufficient.

Project SOAR: Final Evaluation Report, March, 1995
This report presents the findings of a process and outcome evaluation of Project SOAR (Structured Opportunities for AFDC Recipients), which was a welfare to work program operated in Androscoggin county, Maine.

Project JUMP Final Evaluation Report, December, 1995

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