Advancing the science of evaluating Collegiate Recovery Program processes and outcomes: A recovery capital perspective.

ABSTRACT: Collegiate recovery programs (CRPs) offer resources and programming for postsecondary students in addiction recovery to ensure they can initiate or maintain their recovery and complete college. To achieve these goals, CRPs offer a variety of activities that research and theory suggests should produce positive outcomes among their students; yet the lack of systematic evaluation research in this area means it is unknown which programming components may drive outcomes. Recovery capital theory posits a variety of factors at multiple ecological levels that might influence students' recovery experience and their engagement and success in community programs like CRPs. To address this complexity in research and evaluation work on CRPs, we provide a recovery capital-oriented theory of change and lo

SUBMITTER: Hennessy EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8986624 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature