"January 2009".

Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-67).

Introduction -- The Burden of Need among Aboriginal Peoples -- Addressing Substance Use and Criminality through Effective Programming -- Traditional Approaches to Healing and Recovery -- Building Capacity to Address the Needs of Aboriginal Offenders -- The Aboriginal Offender Substance Abuse Program -- Holistic Model of Recovery -- AOSAP Program Content -- Method of Program Delivery -- Quality Review Process -- Hypotheses -- Study Design -- Cohort -- Data Sources -- Potential Covariates of Post-release Outcome -- Indicators of Outcome -- Procedures -- Statistical Analyses -- Results -- Introduction -- 1 Measures of Association between Covariates -- Need and Risk for Recidivism -- Substance Abuse, Need and Program Exposure -- Substance Abuse Program Exposure and Risk -- Age Quartiles, Risk for Recidivism and Need Rating -- Age Quartiles and Substance Abuse Program Status -- 2 Predictors of Revocation -- The Effects of Other Covariates -- Model Diagnostics -- 3 Community-based Indicators of Performance -- Revocation Type -- Community-based Urinalysis -- Discussion -- The Predictors of Revocation -- Predictors of Relapse to Substance Abuse -- Limitations of the Study -- Future Research Possibilities -- Conclusion -- References.

Appendix 1: Survival Analysis Model Diagnostics -- Appendix 2: The Parameter Estimates, Standard Errors (SE), Wald 2, p-values and Hazard Ratios (HR) and Confidence Intervals for each significant covariate of Revocation (Successful completers of AOSAP versions combined into one group) -- Appendix 3: Analysis of Influential observations -- Appendix 4: The Proportion of Release Cohort who were Tested, Percentage of Offenders who Tested Positive, Percentage of Tests that were Positive, Mean Number of Days to First Positive Test, Mean Number of Days to First Test, Mean Days at Risk, Total Number of Offenders and Tests Distributed Across Potential Covariates of the Outcome.

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