Inspiration can often come from collaboration and growth amongst like-minded individuals. Finding a community that shares critical life experiences can transform into impactful change at the organizational and community level. Creating such community was an unforeseen joy that sprouted from one of the Mid-America ATTC’s latest programs, “Providing Peer Based Recovery Support Services for Pregnant and Parenting Families"...

From 2002 to 2018, recognition has increased for evidence-based studies that focus on the importance of patient spirituality in treatment and healing of SUDs due to a mandate by the Joint Commission on Accreditation and Healthcare for the administration of a spiritual assessment by healthcare providers for patients and their families. 

For the past 17 years, the Southeast ATTC has collaborated with communities of faith through the facilitation of conferences, learning academies, listening sessions, webinars and SUD workshops.

The Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) Psychological Health Center of Excellence (PHCoE) provides psychological health expertise to the military community by continuing to improve psychological health care, readiness, and prevention of psychological health disorders. PHCoE utilizes Implementation Science, which helps clinicians implement empirically supported treatments and provides Clinical Support Tools which assist providers in the use of Department of Defense (DOD)/Veterans Administration (VA) clinical practice guidelines for psychological health conditions, including provider, patient, and family guides.

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. 

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....

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.