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In 2018, the state of Utah began piloting a criminal justice intervention targeting high-risk, high-need male parolees with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental illness. The ReSet program was developed by Odyssey House (OH) to provide integrated, comprehensive residential treatment that addresses substance...

Pay for Success (PFS) is an innovative approach that leverages taxpayer risk by funding social service programs with private capital and ties payment for services to demonstrated outcomes through rigorous evaluation.

"One state in particular stood out as leading the field in using evaluation to inform practice. Utah contracted with the University of Utah to conduct a thorough evaluation of its congregate care programs (e.g., outcome measures, qualitative interviews with youth). This evaluation process has the capacity to immediately...