Effect of job skills training on employment and job seeking behaviors in a Native American substance abuse treatment sample.

Employment difficulties are common among individuals receiving substance abuse treatment, and employment is an important treatment outcome as well as a predictor of success in other areas such as decreasing problematic substance use. Unemployment problems are often particularly significant in Native American communities. To address this problem, the Southwest Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) conducted a single-site adaptation of its national Job Seekers Workshop study (protocol CTN-0020) in a Native American treatment program, the Na’Nizhoozhi Center. The program targets skills needed to find and secure a job, as well as vocational goal setting and methods for locating available employment.

This poster reports on the primary results for employment outcomes and finds that the interventions, while well received by all participants, did not produce significant changes in rates of employment, total work and training hours, or time to employment.

Related protocols: CTN-0020