Case Western Reserve University’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education (Begun Center) “evaluates the current efforts of these two agencies as well as efforts to expand their services to assist more individuals in need of treatment services and link them to care” (Riske-Morris and Flannery, 2022).

The center examines how many individuals have Thrive Peer Recovery Services, a partner agency, linked to treatment. The outcome is measured by the number of individuals the agencies encounter, how many engage in discussions about treatment, the number of referrals for treatment, and the number of individuals linked to treatment.

In this particular instance, the evaluation focuses on how the expansion of peer recovery services to local emergency room hospitals has increased the ability of individuals to engage and seek out treatment resources. Read more about the outcomes here.

Source: Deo, V., Riske-Morris, M. and Flannery D. (2022). Peer Recovery Services in Hospital Emergency Departments, Cuyahoga County, Ohio September 1, 2019-August 31, 2021. Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH.