Table 1.
Sample characteristics of employees at Kentucky’s CACs and SVRCs
| Participant characteristics by service delivery type | All (n = 118) |
TH services (n = 88) |
Non-TH services (n = 30) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | |||
| Female | 111 (94.0) | 83 (94.3) | 28 (93.3) |
| Male | 3 (2.5) | 3 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) |
| Gender variant/non-conforming | 3 (2.5) | 1 (1.1) | 2 (6.7) |
| Trans | 1 (0.9) | 1 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| Non-Hispanic/White | 109 (92.3) | 83 (94.3) | 26 (86.7) |
| Black or African American | 3 (2.5) | 2 (2.3) | 1 (1.3) |
| Other* | 6 (5.1) | 3 (3.4) | 3 (10.0) |
| Role | |||
| Advocate/case manager | 50 (42.4) | 35 (39.8) | 15 (50.0) |
| Therapist | 43 (36.4) | 43 (48.9) | 0 (0.0) |
| Other | 25 (21.2) | 10 (11.4) | 15 (50.0) |
| Administration | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| Volunteer/peer specialist | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Prevention services | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Other specialists | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Outreach | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Education | |||
| Less than bachelor’s degree | 15 (12.8) | 6 (6.8) | 9 (30.0) |
| Bachelor’s degree | 33 (28.2) | 25 (28.4) | 8 (26.7) |
| Master’s degree | 66 (56.4) | 54 (61.4) | 12 (40.0) |
| Doctoral degree | 3 (2.6) | 3 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) |
| Population served** | |||
| Children 12 and under | 68 (26.9) | 62 (70.5) | 6 (20.0) |
| Teens (13–17) | 85 (33.6) | 71 (80.7) | 14 (46.7) |
| Adults (18 +) | 100 (39.5) | 76 (86.4) | 24 (80.0) |
| Region | |||
| Rural | 92 (78.6) | 71 (80.7) | 21 (70.0) |
| Urban | 25 (21.4) | 17 (19.3) | 8 (26.7) |
*Hispanic or Latino, Native American or Alaska Native, Multiracial or Biracial, race/ethnicity not listed, or prefer not to answer
**Many respondents serve more than one population. In order to capture all data, they were asked to select each population served. For this reason, the total number of responses for this question (n) is higher than the number of total respondents for the survey