Best practices : Meilleures pratiques, intervention précoce, services d'approche et liens communautaires pour les femmes ayant des problèmes attribuables à la consommation d'alcool et d'autres drogues

Best Practices Early Intervention, Outreach and Community Linkages for Women with Substance Use Problems Prevention Treatment Enforcement Harm Reduction Canada’s Drug Strategy Working together to reduce the harmful use of substances Best Practices Early Intervention, Outreach and Community Linkages for Women with Substance Use Problems Our mission is to help the people of Canada maintain and impro [...] We would like to express our appreciation to the ADTR Working Group and other experts who reviewed drafts of the document, the key informants who participated in interviews, and the focus group participants who gave up their time to advance the research on best practices in early intervention, outreach and community linkages for women with substance use problems. [...] However, some indi- cators showed that drinking continued to be a • Literature review: A critical analysis of concern for women: 76.8% of females drank published and unpublished research alcohol in the past year (compared to 82.0% of related to early intervention, outreach males), 32.8% of females drank alcohol at least and community linkages for women with once a week (compared to 55.2% for males [...] Systemic applications involve increasing collaboration Basic Needs and coordination among service providers to Basic needs, including adequate resources for maximize the use of limited resources and food, clothing or housing, must be addressed ensure the provision of multidisciplinary in conjunction with outreach and early services to address the needs of women and intervention efforts. [...] Part of the mandate of the working group is to The goal is to make best practice guidelines oversee the development and implementation available to service providers, program planners, of research studies that contribute to effective policy makers, and other related health and and innovative substance abuse treatment and community professionals who are involved in rehabilitation programs by identi