NIATx Change Leader Academy - Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network

Check Out the NIATx 101: Simple Steps for Creating High-Impact Change [Flipbook]

Published: 02/05/2025

This flipbook features a compilation of published blog posts from the ATTC/NIATx Service Improvement Blog that highlights content focused on the use of NIATx principles, tools, and processes to create impactful and lasting organizational change. It also includes information on implementing the NIATx change model in new and diverse settings. By compiling the content according to these […]

The Ripple Effect: How Small Changes Make a Big Impact - A Look Inside the Milwaukee Comprehensive Care Initiative (MC3) and NIATx Learning Collaborative

Published: 11/11/2024

The NIATx model was designed to be easily adopted and sustained by organizations and systems without the need for ongoing consultation or complicated processes. It's built to empower teams to identify and make small changes that lead to big improvements. Milwaukee County's behavioral health system first got involved with NIATx in 2011. Since then, NIATx […]

Flowcharting Your Breakfast: How to Find the Right Altitude

Published: 05/06/2024

The NIATx change model focuses on a sequence of four primary tools: After a walk-through, teams sometimes struggle to create a flowchart to map out the process they just examined. Whether you use a big sheet of paper and a marker, sticky notes on a dry-erase board, or any number of softwares, here are a […]

Three Ways to Sustain Change with NIATx

Published: 03/04/2024

The NIATx model is designed to help teams identify and implement a process improvement. While adopting a change is a significant accomplishment, the true test lies in maintaining that change and its positive outcomes over the long term: sustaining the change. Sustainability refers to the ability to stick with the new way of doing things and […]

NIATx in New Places: Insights on Using NIATx in Prevention

Published: 10/10/2023

By Erin Ficker, Prevention Manager, Great Lakes PTTC, and Maureen Fitzgerald, Communications Manager Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, PTTC Erin Ficker, CPRS, MPAff, has over 18 years of experience in substance use prevention, helping communities adopt evidence-based strategies and data-driven processes for prevention planning and execution. Since 2019, Erin has teamed up with NIATx coach Scott Gatzke to […]

NIATx in New Places: Bringing the NIATx Change Leader Academy to HealtheKnowledge

Published: 06/13/2023

By Maureen Fitzgerald, communications manager, Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC, and Scott Gatzke, director of dissemination, Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC NIATx began as a demonstration project in which 39 substance use treatment organizations tested process improvement tools borrowed from industry and manufacturing to improve treatment access and retention. The success of the NIATx […]

Recruit-Hire-Retain: Navigating COVID-19 staffing challenges in behavioral healthcare

Published: 02/25/2022

Mat Roosa, LCSW-R NIATx Coach “Our program is fully staffed with a diverse and skilled team. Our team members usually stay for a long time, but when a staff member does leave, we are able to quickly hire a qualified replacement.” How many of today’s leaders in behavioral health can make such a claim? Could […]

Change Project 911 In Review

Published: 01/19/2022

Thank you for coming along on this Change Project 911 journey with Mat Roosa, the guest blogger for the series. Below you will find a list of all the Change Project 911 NIATx series with a short blurb. Select the title to read the full content of each blog. Help! My Project is Dragging on […]

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