Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation

The Consortium is part of the University of Iowa, Office of the Vice President of Research and Economic Development. https://research.uiowa.edu/


The Consortium has over 25 years of experience monitoring and analyzing outcomes for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs. We have evaluated single and multi-site projects for schools, cities, counties, and the State of Iowa, as well as, for national agencies (e.g., US Department of Justice, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and US Department of Education). Our evaluations often involve long-term monitoring of outcomes via in-person or telephone follow-up interviews with clients. Our client follow-up rates are over 80% and as high as 95% for some projects. We also regularly perform process and ecological evaluations. Samples of our evaluation reports are available on our Projects and Reports page.

We typically work closely with an agency early in the grant application process to assist in developing the program evaluation plan, logic model, and setting measurable program goals. This arrangement allows us to integrate the program evaluation seamlessly with the agency's service provision throughout the process. We can write or assist with writing or reviewing the evaluation section of the application. We can also conduct an overall grant application review. We have many years of experience with local, state, and federal grant application processes.

Our experience has included:

Drug courts
Community treatment agencies
Statewide treatment monitoring
County treatment projects
Statewide prevention and treatment projects
School prevention projects
Environmental prevention projects

The Consortium can assist your agency by evaluating and selecting evidence based prevention or treatment programs to meet the goals of your project. We can also assist you in identifying measurable goals and objectives. We have 25 years of experience with many evidence based treatment and prevention protocols in a variety of settings, schools, jails, treatment agencies, drug courts, and communities.
Based on the services you want to provide and the population you want to serve, we will help identify available program options. We have access to the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP). Additionally, we have access to the largest medical, scientific, and substance abuse literature database in the nation and can perform comprehensive current literature searches.

After we narrow down the practices that might fit your needs, we can contact developers to determine costs for training, cost of materials, and other logistics to get the program implemented in your agency.