title: Cultural responsiveness of drug user treatment programs: approaches to improvement.
abstract: Many drug user treatment programs have difficulty recruiting, retaining, and successfully treating minority clients. Coupled with the fact that cultural diversity among clients is likely to increase, this consideration makes it critical that programs take steps to increase their responsiveness to minority clients. Among the steps which administrators and clinicians recommend that programs take are conducting a needs assessment; implementing special outreach approaches; hiring additional minority staff; providing staff training and education in cultural sensitivity; and identifying client cultural characteristics at intake.
authors.affiliation: Abt Associates Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-1168, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Finn
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D004989:Ethics; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008913:Minority Groups; D009313:National Health Programs; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D000078329:Workforce