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Draft Treatment Standards
Message from Dave Neilsen, Deputy Director, Program Services Division
Thank you for visiting ADP’s Treatment Standards development page. The links below will take you to the second versions, which take into consideration the reviews and comments we received on the first drafts. On behalf of my colleagues at ADP, I would like to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to all those individuals and organizations who returned critiques on the first drafts.
California’s Best System Practices are largely derived from the National Quality Forum’s National Voluntary Consensus Standards for the Treatment of Substance Use Conditions. These standards, carefully crafted and agreed upon by the expansive membership of experts in the treatment of substance use disorders, guide us to areas where improvements in the system and in treatment programs have a high likelihood of improving outcomes for the people we serve. The companion document, Treatment Standards for Substance Use Disorders, informed by the NQF standards, is intended to guide new programs in California for delivery of quality care, and to serve as a checklist for established programs in their continuous quality improvement efforts. We invite you to submit your comments to Amy Stonehill at astonehill@adp.ca.gov.Several 1st draft reviewers asked how these standards would be used to leverage improvements in care, and how ADP would address multiple sets of standards (NQF, "core treatment", and certification). This input was consistent with our own internal conversations about meeting disparate needs -- to establish minimal service requirements on one hand, while on the other, attempting to encourage adoption of efficacious services and supports that are responsive to a client’s assessed needs. Surely, some clients will not receive the care they need if programs are fixed on compliance to a menu. We invite you to join us this summer for discussion on these and other important issues via stakeholder teleconference(s). Details will be posted on the ADP website in the coming weeks. We invite you to join us again at the biennial ADP Conference, October 12-14, 2010 in Sacramento, where a workshop will be set aside to continue discussion of the treatment standards and strategies for implemention.
DAVE NEILSEN