{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "As part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement\r\nAct of 1994, Congress provided funding for the development of\r\nsubstance abuse treatment programs in state and local correctional\r\nfacilities with the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for\r\nState Prisoners Formula Grant Program. To be eligible for this\r\nfunding, programs were required to last between six and 12 months, be\r\nprovided in residential treatment facilities set apart from the\r\ngeneral correctional population, be directed at the inmate's substance\r\nabuse problems, and be intended to develop the inmate's cognitive,\r\nbehavioral, social, vocational, and other skills to address substance\r\nabuse and related problems. The Illinois Youth Center (IYC) in\r\nSt. Charles started an RSAT program on September 30, 1999. The primary\r\nemphasis of this process evaluation was to describe why and how the\r\nSt. Charles RSAT program was designed, implemented, and operated. To a\r\nlesser degree, attention was also directed toward examining the\r\neffects of program participation on offender pre-release\r\nbehavior. This was considered to be a primary indicator of program\r\nimpact. This project sought to answer the following research\r\nquestions: (1) Did the program fit within the institutional\r\nenvironment? (2) Was the program operating as a therapeutic community?\r\n(3) Were the appropriate offenders selected for program participation?\r\nand (4) Were any short-term impacts evident within the youth? This\r\nstudy followed a process evaluation design with a focus on determining\r\nhow a product or outcome was produced, rather than on assessing the\r\nproduct or outcome itself. Information in this data collection was\r\ncollected from youth participants and youth files. Subjects consisted\r\nof the 44 youths who began the RSAT program in 1999 (the treatment\r\ngroup), as well as a matched sample of non-program participants (the\r\ncomparison group). The comparison group was used to contrast\r\ninstitutional behavior of youths not in the treatment program and to\r\nestablish a non-treatment cohort for an expected follow-up impact\r\nstudy. Part 1 contains data from two surveys of program youth only,\r\nand Parts 2-4 contained data on both program youth and the comparison\r\ngroup. Part 2 data were gathered from a review of the youths' master\r\nfiles at the correctional facility. Part 3 data were obtained from\r\nbehavior action tickets (BATs), which were an institution-wide\r\nsemi-formal mechanism to recognize positive and negative youth\r\nbehavior. Part 4 data were collected from institutional disciplinary\r\nreports (IDRs). Part 1 surveyed youth about what they hoped to achieve\r\nin the RSAT program, whether they thought the program would help them,\r\nhow well they understood the program, how they assessed their own\r\nsubstance abuse problems, what they liked and disliked about the\r\nprogram, their opinions about program staff, and their recommendations\r\nfor changing the program. Demographic variables in Part 2 include age,\r\nrace, and education level. Other variables record reading test scores,\r\nmath test scores, IQ scores, location of parents, number of siblings,\r\ndrug use and frequency, criminal history, types of prior substance\r\nabuse treatments, family history of drug use, suicidal ideations, and\r\npersonality test scores. Part 3 contains monthly counts of positive\r\nand negative behavior action tickets. Part 4 contains information\r\nabout the number and types of guilty institutional disciplinary\r\nreports, the severity of the offenses, and the number and types of\r\npunishments received.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03102.v1", "title": "Process Evaluation of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program at the Illinois Youth Center, St. Charles, 1999-2000"}], "identifier": "3244", "issued": "2002-11-01T00:00:00", "keyword": ["correctional facilities", "drug treatment", "inmate programs", "intervention", "juvenile inmates", "program evaluation", "substance abuse", "substance abuse treatment", "treatment programs"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-03-30T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:060"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Justice", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "title": "Process Evaluation of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program at the Illinois Youth Center, St. Charles, 1999-2000"}