In February 2020, the National American Indian and Alaska Native ATTC hosted a regional technical assistance meeting in Oklahoma City for recipients of the Tribal Opioid Response grant. Doctors, nurses, grant managers, counselors, and other health professionals from 15 tribal health clinics in the surrounding states came together in a hotel conference room to talk about a common sickness in their comm­­unities: opioid use disorder.

The Mid-America ATTC developed an intensive technical assistance manual to be used by Technology Transfer Centers to facilitate trauma informed care (TIC) implementation in substance use and recovery service settings. To pilot the manual’s multi-faceted TIC implementation process, Mid-America conducted site visits to regional provider agencies expressing interest in becoming a TIC environment...

Mountain Plains ATTC recently worked with Dr. Scott Walters, a noted professor, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) researcher, and psychologist to develop a series of products and training/technical assistance activities. These products and activities were created for treatment and recovery support providers on how to create and implement one-way short message service (SMS) text messaging. The goal of implementing this innovation was to increase patient/peer engagement aligning with services like groups/individual sessions.

The Central East ATTC serving Health and Human Reserves Region 3 has been managed by the Danya Institute for nearly 20 years and collaboration has always been a central core value to their work.

From this collaboration emerges the necessary innovation to keep pace with rapidly evolving trends, leading to a responsive and adaptive system of care....

Northeast & Caribbean ATTC has been providing various trainings to the Drug Courts of Puerto Rico - a program that seeks the recovery of people with substance use disorders through a continuous and intensive judicial follow up - delivering a total of 15 trainings and impacted 442 providers.