After more than ten years of Fighting Back, there are lessons to be learned about what it takes to change communities and reduce substance abuse.
Fighting Back Lessons Learned
To learn more about Fighting Back download the Fighting Back Lessons Learned brochure.
(PDF file is 169 KB and requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
Fighting Back Evaluation
The Family and Children's Policy Center at the Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University is leading an independent evaluation of Fighting Back.
Click here to visit their website: http://srg.heller.brandeis.edu/SRG/FB/FightingBack.htm.
Conference Results
Join Together has sponsored three conferences to explore the lessons learned in Fighting Back and other collaborative efforts to reduce substance abuse. Click on the links below to read about the proceedings for each conference.
Lessons Learned: Affecting Health Care
Lessons Learned: Strengthening Civic Infrastructure
Lessons Learned: Influencing Race Relations
Fighting Back Criminal Justice/Treatment Partnership Conference: April 2001
In April 2001, teams of treatment professionals, criminal justice professionals and ex-addict/offenders from 10 communities across the country convened with technical advisors at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C. Over 8 sessions, they discussed the successes, failures, challenges and issues that they faced in implementing a successful partnership between the treatment and criminal justice systems, with a particular focus on community correctional settings - probation, pre-release and parole.
You may access the Conference Summary Report online or for a full report on the 3 day conference proceedings, please contact Sarah Witham at sarahw@jointogether.org.
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