Ministries of Social Affairs - Public Health - Environment, Justice, Interior, RIZIV, VSPP, APSD, State Police, Pasteur Institute, VAD, CCAD, ODB and field experts
On 3 February 1995, the Council of Ministers approved the "Drug Addiction - Drugs" action plan. Point G provides for assessment by the OSTC of the "medical-social centres assistance for drug users"(MASS/MSOC)
In compliance with the decision of the Council of Ministers of 6 December 1996, the OSTC commissioned research teams from the Universities of Gent and Liège to prepare a manual for assessing the MASS/MSOC’s. This manual establishes a uniform methodology and evaluation criteria.
On 18 September 1998, the Council of Ministers approved performance of the MASS/MSOC assessment on the basis of this manual.
The research proposal covers assessment of the results of the (MASS/MSOC) activities
a. Optimisation of their operation as part of the regional assistance network
b. Optimisation of the function of the MASS/MSOC’s within the framework of a general policy strategy of assisting drug users
The specific tasks of the PROJECT fall within the following 3 sections:
- Pilot and feasibility study
- Epidemiology
- Process and effect evaluation of the MASS/MSOC’s
Pilot and feasibility study :
. Stock-taking of the available and accessible data concerning the operation of the MASS/MSOC‘s vis-à-vis the users of their services,
. Stock-taking of the missing data which must be generated by the research itself,
. Then, and taking the results of the first step into account, decisions must be taken concerning the choice of the methodological instruments to be used.
Epidemiology of problematic drug use and the assistance offer:
. Assessment of the geographical zone of influence of the MASS/MSOC’s and territorial demarcation of the epidemiological studies,
. Estimation of the quantitative and qualitative aspects of drug use in the selected geographical zones, in particular with regard to problematic and marginalised drug users,
. Analysis of the assistance offer in the selected zones, and study of the possibilities for functional collaboration between the services involved,
. Assessment of the internal functioning of the MASS/MSOC’s and their abilities to intervene in the respective assistance networks.
Process and effect evaluation of the MASS/MSOC‘s, vis-à-vis both the clients of the services and the regional network:
. Process evaluation: detailed and strategic analysis of the participation of the MASS/MSOC’s in the regional network,
. Effect evaluation: detailed analysis of the effects of the treatment provided by the MASS/MSOC’s to the users of their services,
. Effect evaluation: analysis of the effects of the activities of the MASS/MSOC 's on the assistance network.
TO/DD/01: Assessment of the medical-social assistance centres for drug users in Antwerpen and Genk
TO/DD/02: Assessment of the medical-social assistance centres for drug users in Gent and Oostende
TO/DD/03: Assessment of the medical-social assistance centres for drug users in Liège
TO/DD/04: Assessment of the medical-social assistance centres for drug users in Mons and Charleroi
Evaluation des maisons d'accueil socio-sanitaire pour usagers de drogues: rapport de synthèse global
Pelc, I - De Ruyver, B. - Casselman, J. ... et al. Bruxelles: SSTC, 2001 (SP0793)
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Evaluatie van de medisch-sociale opvangcentra voor druggebruikers: algemeen rapport
Pelc, I - De Ruyver, B. - Casselman, J. ... et al. Brussel: DWTC, 2001 (SP0794)
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Evaluatie van de medisch-sociale opvangcentra voor druggebruikers: deelrapport, Antwerpen-Genk/Limburg
Pelc, I - De Ruyver, B. - Casselman, J. ... et al. Brussel: DWTC, 2001 (SP0795)
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Evaluatie van de medisch-sociale opvangcentra voor druggebruikers: deelrapport, Gent - Oostende
Pelc, I - De Ruyver, B. - Casselman, J. ... et al. Brussel: DWTC, 2001 (SP0796)
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Evaluation des maisons de d'accueil socio-sanitaire pour usagers de drogues: rapport de synthèse local Mons - Charleroi
Pelc, Isidore - From, Léon - Nicaise, Pablo Bruxelles: SSTC, 2001 (SP0797/1-2)
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