The ATTC/NIATx Service Improvement Blog - Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network

Responding to Needs: Collaborations for Broad Impact

Published: 09/17/2020

Check out this resource to see how some of the tools you implement are produced and used.

Technology Transfer and Organizational Resilience in the age of COVID-19

Published: 08/19/2020

Follow this link for an example of how leadership is engaged to show commitment to the implementation process.

ATTC Region 2: Preparing and Managing Natural Disasters

Published: 08/05/2020

This blogpost provides an example of implementation and adaptation of trainings to meet the needs of your audience.

Northwest ATTC: Tech Transfer in Action Blog Series

Published: 07/15/2020

Check out this resource to see the various ways implementation and technical assistance can be used, and how the ATTCs can support this work.

Addressing the Syndemic of Addiction, COVID-19, and Structural Racism by Strengthening the Workforce

Published: 07/02/2020

By Sara Becker New England ATTCAccording to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 105,000 Americans have died and at least 1.7 million Americans have been infected with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Social distancing measures put in place to contain the spread have decimated entire sectors of the United […]

How to Reduce No-shows to Virtual Appointments

Published: 06/24/2020

Todd Molfenter, Ph.D. Director, Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC Is this a familiar scenario for your organization? Day 1: Stay-at-home order: Your agency enacts social distancing guidelines. Day 3: Your agency has switched in-person counseling to telephonic or video-based counseling. Day 12: Virtual services, particularly telephone, have increased engagement rates! Day 30: The honeymoon […]

South Southwest ATTC: Implementing Remote Technology In a Time of Crisis

Published: 06/17/2020

Here is an example of implementation in action, with a product that also focuses on sustaining.

Share Your Perspectives about Opioid Use Disorder among People with Disabilities from Minority Backgrounds

Published: 06/10/2020

Share Your Perspectives about Opioid Use Disorder among People with Disabilities from Minority Backgrounds.Please click or cut and paste survey link below to participate: https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=189204 We are pleased to invite substance, mental health service and vocational rehabilitation professionals (e.g., counselors, clinicians, directors) from across the country that provide to participate in a national study on […]

How social isolation, loneliness, and insecurity affect people in recovery from addiction and mental illness during COVID-19; and what to do about it

Published: 06/03/2020

By Pierluigi Mancini, Ph.D.Project Director, National Hispanic and Latino ATTC We are going through a difficult period, together, and we are all going through it in our own way. What COVID-19 has done to us as a society is traumatic and the impact of untreated trauma can be subtle, insidious, or outright destructive. The American […]

Great Lakes ATTC: Helping Build Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care

Published: 05/20/2020

Implementation, the final phase of the ATTC Technology Transfer Model, moves an innovation into routine practice in real-world settings. For the Great Lakes ATTC, implementing Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care in real-world settings has been a particular focus since the concept first began to take shape. (See related blog post: Building a Science of Recovery: The […]

Mid-America ATTC: Creation of Intensive technical assistance manual for trauma informed care (TIC)

Published: 05/06/2020

Check out this resource to see how an innovative practice turned into a system of care.

Learning from Crisis: PDSA in Times of Challenge

Published: 04/23/2020

Mat Roosa, LCSW-R NIATx Coach Crisis requires that we triage the most urgent matters, and take rapid action to address them. Crisis demands that we limit our analysis to the critical data points. Crisis demands that we try new and untested strategies, and rapidly respond to the results of our efforts. Crisis is dangerous, chaotic, […]

The World in our Hearts: A Message from the ATTC and NIATx Networks

Published: 04/15/2020

Contributed by the Southeast ATTC Dawn Tyus, Director Pamela Woll, Product and Curriculum Development Consultant Greetings from the makeshift offices we’ve set up in our kitchens and basements and spare bedrooms. The world outside our windows looks like a normal, pretty Spring day, but the world that lives in our hearts is going through some strange, difficult […]

Traditional Ways of Sharing Modern Knowledge: Peer-to-Peer Learning Communities

Published: 04/08/2020

Check out this resource to see how considering the culture of communities is essential to creating change that is sustainable.

DEBUNKED Podcast launched to Debunk Myths about Harm Reduction

Published: 04/04/2020

By Dr. Sandra H. Sulzer The Tribal and Rural Opioid Initiative of Utah State University has launched a podcast to debunk myths around harm reduction. The first two episodes are already released with a pending special episode on COVID-19 myths in production. While harm reduction strategies such as syringe distribution and naloxone education are the […]

Using Text Messages to Improve Substance Use Disorders Treatment Outcomes

Published: 03/18/2020

Check out this resource to see how data influenced best practices for change.

Changing Practice Through Collaboration, Art, and Science

Published: 03/04/2020

Check out this resource to see how collaboration is needed in all steps of the implementation process.

NIATx Tools: What I Learned From My First Walk-through Exercise

Published: 03/02/2020

Julia Parnell Alexander, Ph.D. Co-Director, Great Lakes PTTC State Project Manager, Indiana, for the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC My first NIATx walk-through exercise happened when I was a staff member at a recovery community organization (RCO) in Minnesota. Through this experience, I quickly learned the difference between theory and practice. I thought I […]

Tech Transfer in Action Blog Series: Infusing Evidence-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Information into Existing U.S. College and University Curricula

Published: 02/19/2020

Follow this link for an example of Technology Transfer in action.

Hepatitis C Prescriber Toolkit

Published: 02/12/2020

Laura W. Cheever, MD, ScM Associate Administrator for HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Although advances in HIV care and treatment result in longer life expectancy for people with HIV, those who are coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C have a high risk of liver-related illness and death. Viral hepatitis progresses faster and causes more liver-related health problems […]

Supporting the “MI Spirit” Through an Intensive TA Process: Clinical Supervisory Staff Improve Their Communication Skills For Use with Clients and Each Other

Published: 02/01/2020

This blogpost provides an example of how the EPIS model was used to implement Motivational Interviewing (MI).

NIATx: Promising Practices to Increase Engagement in Treatment

Published: 01/31/2020

Maureen Fitzgerald Great Lakes ATTC/NIATx NIATx Principle 1, "Understand and Involve the Customer," comes alive when a change team conducts a walk-through of their agency or one of its processes. For many change teams, the first walk-through focuses on the customer's first contact with the agency: the intake and admission processes. A walk-through of first […]

ATTC Region 2: Increasing Capacity for the Drug Courts in Puerto Rico

Published: 01/16/2020

The Institute of Research, Education and Services in Addiction at the Universidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine has been providing various trainings to the Drug Courts of Puerto Rico. Drug Courts is a program that seeks the recovery of people with substance use disorders through a continuous and intensive judicial follow up. It applies […]

2020 Vision: What Will You Improve in the New Year?

Published: 01/06/2020

Mat Roosa, LCSW-R NIATx Coach With the start of a new year, many organizations resolve to tackle long-standing issues, such as high no-show rates. In this post, NIATx coach Mat Roosa shares his vision for reducing no-shows: Offer walk-in hours. Walk-ins “The best way to get rid of no-shows for appointments is to get rid […]

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