CLAS Resources

If you have questions about any of these resources, please email networkoffice@attcnetwork.org
Roadmap for Training & Technical Assistance Efforts in Substance Use Service Administration
- A Journey to Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (Virtual tour of this product)
- Una guía para lograr Servicios Lingüística y Culturalmente Apropiados (CLAS por sus siglas en inglés)
Implicit Bias/Unconscious Bias
- Deconstructing Unconscious Bias in Behavioral Health Care: Origins of Unconscious Bias (Session 1)
- Deconstructing Unconscious Bias in Behavioral Health Care: Making the Case to Identify Not Blame (Session 2)
- Deconstructing Unconscious Bias in Behavioral Health Care: Dismantling Bias and Building Equity (Session 3)
- Deconstructing Unconscious Bias in Behavioral Health Care: Learning from the Field (Session 4)
- Health Equity and Implicit Racial Bias Experiences by the LGBTQ+ Community Seeking Treatment & Recovery
- Implicit Racial Bias and Microaggression as they Relate to Behavioral Health Treatment and Recovery
- Improving African-American Retention in Substance Abuse Treatment: Implicit Racial Bias and Microaggression
- Southeast ATTC: AABH X COE | Structural Racism and Black Mental Health
- Stigma, Language & Implicit Bias: Moving Toward a Stigma Free Provider
- The Science of Bias: How Cognition and Motivation Impact Judgment - Part 1
- The Science of Bias: How Cognition and Motivation Impact Judgement – Part 2
- The Role of Implicit Racial Discrimination
- Weathering the SUD Health Equity and Implicit Racial Bias Storms: Partnerships and Comprehensive Strategy
National CLAS Standards
- CLAS Matters Trainer Registry
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health 101: First in a Series
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Health Equity for Individuals Living with AIDS
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Transgender Populations
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: The Health Equity Impact of Incarcerated and Recently Released Individuals
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: The Impact of CLAS and the Peer Recovery Movement - Supporting Homeless and Recovering Individuals
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: How to Identify, Treat, and Refer Survivors of Human Trafficking
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Venus vs Mars in Healthcare - Impacts on Women's Health Outcomes
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Working with the African American Population
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Working with LGBTQ Part 1
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Working with LGBTQ-Part 2
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Youth Population
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Cultural Tailoring CLAS for African Immigrants and Persons of African and Caribbean Descent
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Working with Children and Their Caregivers
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: The Complexities of Healthcare and Wellness for Men Who Have Sex with Men
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: How to Identify, Treat, and Refer Survivors of Human Trafficking
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Addressing the Opioid Crisis with Urgency, Compassion, and Care
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: How CLAS Standards Can Empower Hispanic and Latinx Communities to Thrive in Recovery
- Cultural Intelligence: Understanding and Incorporating CLAS Standards into Practice
- Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Needs Assessment Tool
- How to Implement Cultural Competence and the National Standards for CLAS
- Introduction to Cultural Competence and the National Standards for CLAS
Cultural Humility and Inclusion
- Community Engagement Resources
- Creating an Inclusive Organization
- Cultural Competence: A Modality for Practice
- Cultural Factors in Substance Use
- Cultural Humility and Cultural Intelligence
- Cultural Humility Primer: Peer Support Specialist and Recovery Coach Guide
- Cultural Intelligence: Understanding and Incorporating CLAS Standards into Practice
- Delivering Trauma and Culturally Informed Care to the Latinx Community/Proporcionando el cuidado informado del trauma de manera culturalmente apropiada
- Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: A Focus on Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health Treatment Settings
- Integrating Cultural Competency and Evidence-Based Practices When Treating African Americans with Substance Use Disorder
- Introduction to Cultural Competence and the National Standards for CLAS
- How to Implement Cultural Competence and the National Standards for CLAS
- How to Sustain Cultural Competence at the Individual and Organizational Levels
- Liberty, Humiliation, and Identity: Race and the Suffering of America
- Minority to Priority Initiative
- Providing Culturally Relevant Crisis Services During COVID-19: The Morbidity of National Trust and Mental Health Disparities
- Providing Culturally Relevant Crisis Services During COVID-19: Culturally Responsive Factors to Consider
- Providing Culturally Relevant Crisis Services During COVID-19: Culturally Responsive Factors for Hmong Communities
- Southeast ATTC Podcast: The New Normal - Ethnic Sensitivities and SUDs
- What Does it Mean to be African American? (For Mental Health Providers)
- What Does it Mean to be African American? (For Substance Abuse Providers)
Health Equity
- An Ecological Snapshot of Racial Inequity
- An Ecological Snapshot of Racial Inequity: How We Got Here and Where We Need to Go Together
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Health Equity for Individuals Living with AIDS
- Community Engagement Resources
- Crossing the Prevention Bridge to Treatment and Recovery: The SUD Equity Journey
- Deconstructing Unconscious Bias in Behavioral Health Care - Dismantling Bias and Building Equity Session 3
- Essential Conversations in Social Services 2020: Race & COVID-19 (Podcast)
- Health Equity and Implicit Racial Bias Experiences by the LGBTQ+ Community Seeking Treatment & Recovery
- Racial Equity Resources
- Understanding Disparities and Building Health Equity from a Social Justice Perspective During the COVID-19 Healthcare Crisis
- Weathering the SUD Health Equity and Implicit Racial Bias Storms: Partnerships and Comprehensive Strategy
- Western Connecticut Mental Health Network: understanding Disparities and Building Health Equity from a Social Justice Perspective During the COVID-19 Healthcare Crisis
Black/African American Populations
- Above and Beyond: Creating a Welcoming Environment for African Americans with Substance Use Disorders
- African American Children and Adolescents of Parents with Substance Use Disorder: Protective Factors & Counseling
- A Syndemic is upon Us! Addiction, Racism, and COVID-19
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Cultural Tailoring CLAS for African Immigrants and Persons of African and Caribbean Descent
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Working with the African American Population
- Counseling African Americans with Substance Use Disorders
- Cross Cultural Counseling for African Americans with Substance Use Disorder
- Engaging African Americans in Substance Use Disorder Treatment (Presentation Slides)
- Engaging African Americans in Substance Use Disorder Treatment (Recorded webinar)
- Engaging African Americans in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Webinar Series
- Integrating Cultural Competency and Evidence-Based Practices When Treating African Americans with Substance Use Disorder
- Improving African-American Retention in Substance Abuse Treatment: Evidence-Based Strategies for Mental Health Providers
- Improving African-American Retention Substance Abuse Treatment: Evidence-Based Strategies for Substance Abuse Providers
- Improving African-American Retention Substance Abuse Treatment: Implicit Racial Bias and Microaggression
- Improving African-American Retention Substance Abuse Treatment: Scope of the Problem
- Improving African-American Retention in Substance Abuse Treatment: The Role of Implicit Racial Discrimination
- Minority to Priority Initiative
- Minority to Priority: Sisters on a Long Road (What 11 African American Women in Long-Term Recovery Want to Tell Us)
- Multiple Pathways of Recovery for African Americans
- Partners in Recovery: The Role of Addictions Counselors and Recovery Coaches Working Together to Promote Recovery in African American Communities
- Recovery in African American Communities
- Recovery Month Podcast Series: Recovery in African-American Communities
- Structural Racism and Black Mental Health
- The Healing Forest: The Entire African American Community As A Recovery Center
- Trauma Informed Care for African Americans with Substance Use Disorder
- What Does it Mean to be African American? (For Substance Abuse Providers)
- What Does it Mean to be African American? (For Mental Health Providers)
Latinx/Hispanic Populations
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: How CLAS Standards Can Empower Hispanic and Latinx Communities to Thrive in Recovery
- Centering Self-Compassion in Mental Health Programming with Latina Immigrant Women
- Como el aislamiento social, la soledad, y la inseguridad afecta a las personas en recuperacion de adicion y salud mental durante COVID-19
- COVID-19 and the Latinx Community: Skills to Reduce Stress, Stigma, and Substance Use
- Delivering Trauma and Culturally Informed Care to the Latinx Community/Proporcionando el cuidado informado del trauma de manera culturalmente apropiada
- Detoxifying Machismo: The Importance of Latino Fathers in Prevention and Recovery (Session 1)
- Detoxifying Machismo: The Importance of Latino Fathers in Prevention and Recovery (Session 2)
- El Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead Grief and Loss Toolkit
- Establishing Peer-to-Peer Services for Adult Latinos in Recovery: Providing Strength, Hope, and Overcoming Stigma
- Explorando Auto-Compasion en Programas de Salud Mental para Mujeres Latina Inmigrantes
- Implications of the Opioid Crisis in the U.S. Latino Populations
- Motivational Interviewing in Puerto Rico (Podcast)
- Part 1: An Introduction to Critical Trauma Theory and its Relationship to Substance Use Disorders in Latinx Communities
- Part 2: Practical Tools to Implement Critical Ally-ship and Radical Self-Care in our Service Delivery to Latinx Communities
- Recovery in the Latino Community (Podcast 2)
- Recovery Month Podcast series: Recovery in the Hispanic and Latino Community
- Substance Use and Pregnancy During COVID-19 (English)
- Substance Use and Pregnancy During COVID-19 (Spanish)
- Substance Use and Pregnancy During COVID-19 (Portuguese)
- Traditional Healing Part 1: Integrating Curanderismo in Behavioral Health: Addressing Body, Mind, and Spirit
- Traditional Healing Part 2: Understanding Latino Cultural Health Behaviors and the Role of Women
- Understanding Latino Youth Recovery: Issues, Assets, and Creating Resiliency
- What is Cinco de Mayo and How Does it Affect Hispanic/Latino Communities
Native American, American Indian, & Alaska Native Populations
- Addressing Addiction in our Native American Communities, Fall 2019 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
- Addressing Addiction in Our Native American Communities, Winter 2020
- Behavioral Health: People and Plants from the Land of Colorful Corn
- Contingency Management Incentive Ideas for Native Patients
- Cultural Factors in Substance Use
- Cultural Factors in Substance Use: A Native Holistic Perspective
- Healing of the Canoe: Community Pulling Together. A Life Skills Curriculum Training for Native Youth (Webinar)
- Healing Tool: Guide for Addressing Behavioral Health Goals in Native Communities
- Indigenous Psychology Part One: History of Lost
- Indigenous Psychology Part Two: Finding the Future
- Keep Your Spirit Shining: Taking Back Our Cultural Morals and Values
- Options for Peer Support in Frontier and Tribal Communities
- Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Innovations in Native Communities
- Qungasvik (Tools for Life): An Indigenous Intervention to Prevent Alcohol Misuse and Suicide Among Yup'ik Alaska Native Youth
- Reducing the Harm of Alcohol Use
- Resource Guide for Native American/Alaska Native Behavioral Health Providers During COVID-19 and Beyond
- Spirit of Communication: A Culturally Adapted Motivational Interviewing Training for the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board
- The Application of the SBIRT Model in a Tribal Healthcare Setting
- Native American Teachers, Helpers, and Healers: Animals, Stones, Plants, and the Little People
- Native American Storytelling: Culture is Prevention
- Native Soldier, Native Warrior: Celebrating Traditional Medicine & Spiritual Beliefs and Practices and Honoring Native American Veterans/Warriors
- Walking the Long Road: AI/AN Recovery Stories of Experience, Strength, and Hope
Women
- Caring for and Empowering Women with Substance Use Disorders: Reproductive and Sexual HealthThe Brain, Substance Use Disorders & Parenting: A Health Care Professional’s Guide to Universal Screening Practices
- Centering Self-Compassion in Mental Health Programming with Latina Immigrant Women
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Venus vs Mars in Healthcare - Impacts on Women's Health Outcomes
- Evidence-Based Treatment, Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal & Supporting the Infant-Parent Relationship
- Healing Two Generations: Care for Pregnant/Parenting Women with OUD/SUD
- Impact of Illegal Substances, Viral Infections, COVID-19 Pandemic in our Pregnant Population
- Intersection of Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence and Addiction
- Minority to Priority: Sisters on a Long Road (What 11 African American Women in Long-Term Recovery Want to Tell Us)
- My Reproductive Life Goals: Deciding If and/or When to Have Another Child
- Navigating the Maze: Sexual Health and Literacy for Pregnant and Postpartum Women with Substance Use Disorders
- Optimizing Care for the Substance Exposed Newborn and Family
- Overview of Substance Use in Pregnancy and the Impact on Fetal and Infant Development
- Perinatal Provider Toolkit
- Perspectives on Family-Centered Care for Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Broadening the Scope of Addiction Treatment and Recovery
- The Intersection between Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Use Disorder
- The Stigma is Real: Pregnant and Parenting Women with Substance Use Disorders
- Traditional Healing Part 2: Understanding Latino Cultural Health Behaviors and the Role of Women
LGBTQIA
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: The Complexities of Healthcare and Wellness for Men Who Have Sex with Men
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Transgender Populations
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Working with LGBTQ Part 1
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Working with LGBTQ-Part 2
- Cultural Humility and Motivational Interviewing Combined to Engage and Retain LGBTQIA People in Care
- Health Equity and Implicit Racial Bias Experiences by the LGBTQ+ Community Seeking Treatment & Recovery
- MSM, Methamphetamines & HIV
- Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention among People who Use Substances
- Recovery in the LGBT Community (Podcast 3)
- Recovery Month Podcast Series: Recovery in the LGBTQ Population
- Substance Use Treatment Experiences Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Who Use Crystal Methamphetamine
Youth
- Addressing Youth Substance Use in the Juvenile Justice System: Reconciling Treatment Court and Clinical Intervention Approaches
- Adolescent Brain Maturation and Health: Intersections on the Development Highway
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Teen Substance Use
- Cultural Elements with Hispanic Adolescents
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Youth Population
- CLAS Standards in Behavioral Health: Working with Children and Their Caregivers
- Healing of the Canoe: Community Pulling Together. A Life Skills Curriculum Training for Native Youth
- Motivational Interviewing for Youth with HIV (Podcast)
- Neurodiversity Among Youth
- Teens R' Us and the SBIRT Model
- The Intersection of Maternal & Adolescent Trauma and OUD/SUD
- Understanding Latino Youth Recovery: Issues, Assets and Creating Resiliency
- Understanding Suicide Part 2: Adolescents and the Changing Brain
- Vaping Overview and CATCH My Breath Program
- Vaping 2: Education vs Punishment Using Deferred Citation
Last Updated January 28th, 2022