Robert S. Helgoe, Ph.D., teaches in the human services program at the Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, Washington. He is an adjunct staff member of the Skagit Recovery Center's intensive outpatient program, a consultant to Sundown M Ranch treatment center, and a member of the Washington State Department of Health Chemical Dependency Professional Advisory Committee. He is the author of a new curriculum that teaches treatment providers how to measure client progress.