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I live in the Northeast region and am trying to locate potential Evaluators/Evaluation groups for my program. Who are the evaluators within the region and how do I select the one that is best for my needs?

There are several evaluators/evaluation groups in the northeast region. The following is a list of some evaluation groups that the CAPT has been able to identify:

Evaluation Organizations

Connecticut

Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC)
(860) 679-2000

University of Connecticut School of Social Work
(860) 570-9135
Thomas.Felke@uconn.edu

Delaware

University of Delaware, Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies: Butzin@udel.edu

Massachusetts

Social Science Research and Evaluation, Inc. (SSRE),
Affiliated with Harvard Medical School
Wayne Harding, Ph.D. and Robert Apsler, Ph.D.
(781) 270-6613
contact@ssre.org

Richard Woy Associates
Dick Woy
(617) 731-9852, (617) 731-5226
jrwoy@aol.com

Patricia Cronin
(978) 372-9671
Patcronin@netway.com

New England Research Institutes (NERI)
Kevin Smith
(617) 923-7747
Kevins@neri.org

Schneider Institute for Health Policy
Peter Kreiner
781-736-3900
pkreiner@brandeis.edu

New Hampshire

John Snow, Inc.
(603) 573-3300
http://www.jsi.com/

Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center,
(603) 271-5747

New York

Research Institute on Addictions (RIA)
(716) 887-2566

Pennsylvania

KIT Solutions, Inc. (Knowledge Based Information Technology Solutions)
http://www.kitsolutions.net/

Rhode Island

Community Research and Services Team,
University of Rhode Island

Paul Florin (URI) John Stevenson (URI)
(401) 874-4234
pflorin@uri.edu Jsteve@uri.edu

Brown University
Robert Dean Shaw
(401) 863-2315
robert_shaw@brown.edu

Related CAPT products:

• Visit our web site to view brief descriptions of many of the evaluation groups above on our state resource pages. These can be accessed from our home page at http://captus.samhsa.gov/northeast/northeast.cfm by clicking on the appropriate state.

• CSAP’s Northeast CAPT also offers a training entitled "Locating, Hiring, and Managing an Evaluator" that examines many aspects of the evaluation process. For more information about this training view an on-line training description, contact the Single State Agency in your state, or call CSAP’s Northeast CAPT at 888-EDC-CAPT.

Please contact the Northeast CAPT at captonline@edc.org for more information.