The Effectiveness and Cost of Two Approaches to Practical Assistance
ACT and the Community-Linked Evaluation AIDS Resource (CLEAR) Unit at McMaster University are developing a project to evaluate ACTs’s Practical Assistance (PA) program. The CLEAR Unit is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care to assist ASOs with program evaluation.
The purpose of the project is to compare two approaches to Practical Assistance (i.e., with and without case management) to determine who benefits most from which approach, under what circumstances, and at what cost. The researchers will randomly assign 120 participants (PHAs) to two Practical Assistance streams, and assess their well-being, service use and associated costs when they enter the program and four months later. This is a two-year project that started in May 2004. The project is funded with a grant from the Wellesley Urban Health Initiative.
