EFFECTIVENESS OF A PARENT-AIDE SERVICES PROGRAM

The authors compare a group of parent clients who received volunteer p arent-aide services with a group of parent clients who were not afford ed parent-aide services in order to analyze the effectiveness of a par ent-aide services program. Results show that parent-aide services did not significantly affect program outcomes. me absence of participating parents' substance-abuse problem and the number of case-planner conta cts were the only significant predictors of successful program outcome . The findings suggest the need for training parent aides to monitor s igns of clients' substance abuse and the need far social workers to de velop more effective therapeutic intervention models for substance-abu sing clients of preventive services.