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Access File Here The National Hispanic and Latino ATTC and PTTC are proud to share this infographic, bringing awareness to Men's Health Month. Please take a look on this information that was carefully prepared by our centers and learn more about Hispanic Men's Health And Hispanic Men's Mental Health, the challenges, the strengths, risk and […]

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) is offering a free Indigenous Boot Camp Training: Public Health Strategies to Combat Substance Use in Indigenous Communities. The training covers prevention science, coalition work, CADCA's Seven Strategies for Community Change, and all elements in of the Strategic Prevention Framework. The four-day intensive training is 8:30 am. to 4 […]

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide guidance for substance abuse and mental health treatment facilities adopting tobacco-free policies and implementing cessation services as part of treatment plans. Tobacco use remains one of the leading causes of death among Americans. Tobacco use causes a number of devastating and debilitating diseases, including stroke, emphysema and […]

To help adults who drink alcohol to better understand their relationship with alcohol, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) recently published a major update and redesign of its popular booklet and website, Rethinking Drinking: Alcohol and Your Health. “Rethinking Drinking was first issued in 2009 and has been NIAAA’s most popular resource. […]

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has released a new Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) Grants Profile Document, which highlights the achievements of the first three years of the TOR grant. The document includes data collected through client-level GPRA interviews, as well as the treatment, prevent, recovery support services, and cultural practices that TOR grantees […]

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States (Library of Congress, https://loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/about/). Initially, the last Sunday of the month in June was […]

Steve Steine, MA, CADC, program manager for the National American Indian and Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center (NAIAN ATTC), offered a poster presentation on the center's Virtual Native Talking Circles at the annual conference of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) in Minneapolis June 11-15. He was joined by poster co-author Edgar Parsells, […]

SAMHSA has developed a resource for youth vaping prevention. Download the resource here

 Do you have questions regarding the use of Motivational Interviewing? Would you like to enhance or improve your skills?   Then MI on the Fly is for you!   MI on the Fly is an online, interactive, drop-in consultation series designed for behavioral health providers to obtain immediate feedback and coaching on the utilization and […]

Northwest ATTC Summer Webinar Series: Innovative and Successful Approaches to Staff Recruitment and Retention July – September 2022 The mission of the ATTC Network—to accelerate adoption and implementation of useful treatment and recovery-oriented services—depends on having sufficient number and diversity of addiction workforce members to provide those services to persons in need of care for […]

We’wha was a Lhamana, a Zuni Two Spirit person, who occupied both male and female roles within the tribe. They were an important cultural ambassador, spiritual leader, and pottery and textile artist and worked to preserve the history, traditions and knowledge of the Zuni tribe. Download the flyer to learn more.

The SAMHSA National Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery has published a new toolkit for Behavioral Health agencies to adopt tobacco-free wellness policies for their facilities and campuses. Download the toolkit here.

This Issue: Planting Seeds of Love, Light and Respect to Harvest Equity This issue celebrates Pride month and we are celebrating the diversity, beauty, resilience of and contributions by our LGBTQAI2S+ community members. Please read to learn more about the resources we are highlighting this quarter, NLBHA’s upcoming events and projects, and more. Click Here […]

Smoking cessation during treatment is crucial to the physical health of the client and can improve treatment outcomes for their behavioral health disorders. Download the toolkit.

SMOKING CESSATION DURING TREATMENT IS CRUCIAL TO THE PHYSICAL HEALTH OF THE CLIENT AND CAN IMPROVE TREATMENT OUTCOMES FOR THEIR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DISORDERS Download the PDF toolkit now

June 1, 2022 Click here to listen/download On Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce asks Native experts about ways to approach the prevention and healing of violence with Dr. Mark Standing Eagle Baez (Mohawk, Pawnee, Coahuiltecan, and Mexican), assistant professor of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Bemidji State University; Leslie Logan (Seneca), founding member of the […]

The goal of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network/Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) webinar series is to help scholars and clinicians in the addiction field stay abreast of cutting edge science.  Please join us for our next joint webinar: Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder June 30, 2022 | 11:00am […]

In response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the Native Center for Behavioral Health (consisting of the National American Indian & Alaska Native ATTC, NAIAN MHTTC, NAIAN PTTC, and NAIAN Child Trauma TSA) offers these resources for educators, counselors, and others to assist children, families, and communities navigate the complex emotional reactions […]

For 29 years, the New England ATTC has served as a proud regional workforce development partner for The New England School of Addiction and Prevention Studies, commonly called Summer School. The Summer School is an intensive 5-day learning experience, taking place June 6 -10, 2022, designed to advance the knowledge, skills, and experience of the […]

The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline provides 24/7, free, confidential support before, during, and after pregnancy. The Hotline offers callers: Phone or text access to professional counselors Real-time support and information Response within a few minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Resources Referrals to local and telehealth providers and support groups Culturally […]

by Laura Cooley, Northwest ATTC Often supervisors and managers know they need to make a change but don’t think they or their teams have the bandwidth to do it. Or they may proceed with some plans but have little to show for their efforts at the end.   Northwest ATTC consultant and organizational change leader […]

                                                                            Written by: Kisha Freed and Mark Sanders   What do you do if a client or community […]

Join us on May 25, 2022 (12-1pm PT) for our next webinar: Introduction to Supervision of Peer Based Recovery Support Services. REGISTER HERE! As many people know, the professional identity of peer staff is rooted in their lived experience and deep connection to personal vulnerabilities. What is not often talked about or addressed are the […]

Join us May 25, 2022 (12-1pm PT) for our next webinar: Introduction to Supervision of Peer Based Recovery Support Services. As many people know, the professional identity of peer staff is rooted in their lived experience and deep connection to personal vulnerabilities. What is not often talked about or addressed are the imbalances that many […]