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Workplace Learning: Helping Practitioners Work Wiser

Published: 04/10/2019
Nancy Roget, Joyce Hartje & Terra Hamblin  CASAT, University of Nevada Reno  Pacific Southwest ATTC After 25 years of conducting training workshops, translating research into bite-size pieces for curricula or stand-alone products, and creating opportunities for performance feedback to enhance skill development, the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs) are ‘upping their game’ to offer novel […]
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Trainer Development Efforts to Build a Competent Behavioral Health Treatment and Recovery Workforce in the Pacific Jurisdictions

Published: 04/03/2019
Beth A. Rutkowski, MPH Co-Director, Pacific Southwest ATTC In the 2012-17 funding cycle, the Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Pacific Southwest ATTC) region was expanded to encompass HHS Region 9. Formerly serving only California and Arizona, the Pacific Southwest ATTC now also serves Nevada, Hawaii, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated […]
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Northwest ATTC & Tri-County Behavioral Health Providers Association Motivational Interviewing Teaching & Coaching Collaborative

Published: 03/27/2019
March 27, 2019 Meg Brunner, MLIS Northwest ATTC Motivational interviewing (MI) is the number one training request the Northwest ATTC receives from our region. Providers are embracing this evidence-based practice and, at the same time, are also struggling to access training and on-going coaching to promote staff proficiency. The challenge leaders report is: how do […]
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Improving Substance Use Prevention and Treatment: International Efforts

Published: 03/19/2019
March 20, 2019 Kim Johnson Executive Director ICUDDR  Did you know that there is an international effort to improve the quality of substance use prevention and treatment through workforce and infrastructure development? The Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) supports a series of efforts in developing countries to do […]
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The Healing of the Canoe: Community Pulling Together

Published: 03/14/2019
March 14, 2019 Meg Brunner, MLIS Northwest ATTC  The Healing of the Canoe began as a collaborative project between the Suquamish Tribe, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, and the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington, now the home of the Northwest ATTC.  Suquamish and Port Gamble S’Klallam identified the prevention of […]
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Advancing Family-Centered Care for Pregnant and Parenting Women

Published: 03/04/2019
Pat Stilen, MSW Co-Director Sarah Knopf-Amelung, MA-R Kate Mallula, MPH, LMSW Mid-America ATTC March 5, 2019 As former director of a women’s treatment program in Nebraska, Mid-America ATTC Co-Director Pat Stilen saw firsthand the importance of family in mothers’ recovery journeys. She also recognized that family-centered care was the exception rather than the standard of […]
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Medication-Assisted Treatment: Promoting Tools for Successful Recovery

Published: 02/22/2019
February 25, 2019 Pat Stilen, MSW Co-Director, Mid-America ATTC Kansas City, home to the Mid-America ATTC at the University of Missouri Kansas City A decade ago, few people knew about the array of medications available to support persons in recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs). In the judicial and corrections arenas, if persons coming into jails […]
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Allying with Peru to Integrate LGBT-Affirming Practices

Published: 01/24/2019
Kim-Monique Johnson Diana Padilla Edgar Vargas Northeast and Caribbean ATTC January 24, 2019 “This is the first time I have ever discussed LGBTQ health care with anyof my colleagues – it’s long overdue that we treat the LGTBQ community with dignity and respect. This is about humanity.”– Psychiatrist, SOGI Training Participant, Lima, Perú Diana Padilla, […]
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Scott County, IN: Where It's Cool to Be In Recovery

Published: 01/17/2019
February 4, 2019 Maureen Fitzgerald Great Lakes ATTC In spring 2015, the HIV outbreak caused by injection drug use in rural Scott County, Indiana, made headlines around the world. More than 200 cases were confirmed in the town of Austin, affecting one-fifth of its population of 4,200. This rural county faced multiple challenges in addressing […]
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Central East ATTC: Implementing Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in Title X Family Planning Settings

Published: 01/15/2019
January 15, 2019 Shelly Miller Consultant, Central East ATTC Subject Matter Expert, Family Planning Over the past year, the Central East ATTC collaborated with the Region III, Title X Family Planning Program to integrate the SBIRT model for early intervention and treatment services for substance use disorder within reproductive health care centers. The goal is […]
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Pacific Southwest ATTC Launches 3-Year Implementation and Process Improvement Technical Assistance Capacity Initiative

Published: 01/07/2019
January 8, 2019 Michael S. Shafer, Ph.D. Pacific Southwest ATTC Facilitating patient change is a core essential skill of effective behavioral health care. Facilitating organizational change is a core essential element of implementing evidence-based practices and other practice improvement strategies designed to promote patient change. Beginning January 22-24, 2019, and continuing over the course of […]
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New England ATTC: Leadership Development Program

Published: 12/19/2018
December 19, 2018 New England ATTC By 2024, 1 in 4 members of the United States workforce will be 55 years or older, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. This is more than double the rate in 1994, when workers over 55 only accounted for 12% of the workforce. In the short-term, organizations often […]
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Building Healthy Native Communities: National American Indian & Alaska Native ATTC

Published: 12/10/2018
December 11, 2018 Jeff Ledolter & Anne Helene Skinstad National American Indian & Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center On November 14, 2018, the National American Indian & Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC), Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), and Prevention Technology Transfer Centers (PTTC) gathered at the University of Iowa’s College of […]
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Building Rural and Technology Literacy Skills

Published: 12/08/2018
December 11, 2018 Nancy Roget Thomasine Heitkamp Joyce Hartje Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center Since its inception in 1993 (one of the original ATTCs), what is now the Mountain Plains ATTC has focused on creating research-based SUD treatment/recovery products that can easily be inserted into existing curricula by behavior health faculty, which helps make […]
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Building a Science of Recovery: The Pinnacle ATTC Achievement?

Published: 11/05/2018
November 6, 2018 Mike Flaherty, PhD Founder, Institute for Research, Education, and Training in the Addictions Former Director, Northeast ATTC In 25 years of service to our nation, providers, and the public, the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network (ATTC) has achieved many accomplishments capable of being referred to as its “pinnacle” achievement. Indeed, reaching 25 […]
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Help people with opioid use disorders with ATTC Network Educational Packages: TwitterChat on Oct.30!

Published: 10/26/2018
October 29, 2018 What do you need to know to help people with opioid use disorders? Finding the answer to that question is now easier with the ATTC Educational Packages for Opioid Use Disorders. Each digital guide offers information and links to the latest resources on how to: Prevent opioid misuse Intervene with individuals at […]
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We All Know Someone: Northwest ATTC Co-Sponsors Recovery Month Event: Solution to Addiction

Published: 10/11/2018
October 11, 2018 Meg Brunner, MLIS Northwest ATTC On September 26, 2018, the Northwest ATTC in conjunction with the Skagit County Public Health Department and Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, co-sponsored a community-based Recovery Month event in Skagit County called “Solution to Addiction: Know the Facts. Join the Conversation. Be Part of the Solution.” The event, […]
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For National Hispanic Heritage Month: Build Your Skills with ATTC Network Tools and Trainings

Published: 10/04/2018
October 4, 2018 Maureen Fitzgerald ATTC Network Coordinating Office/NIATx September 15-October 15 Find out more What's one thing that Haner Hernandez would like people to know about the Latino population in the United States? "It's that we're so diverse," says Hernandez, who provides training and technical assistance for the ATTC Network on topics such as […]
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Helping African-American Emerging Adults At Risk for Substance Use Disorder: Developing Resilience

Published: 09/27/2018
October 2, 2018 Fred Dyer, Ph.D., CADC Originally published in the Online Museum of African American Addictions, Treatment, and Recovery  Given the multiple risk factors for heavy substance use which impacts many African America Emerging Adults, ranging from easy access to drugs, poorly performing schools, father hunger, the presence of gangs within communities, early criminal […]
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Recovery Month 2018: A Roundup of Resources from the ATTC Regional Centers

Published: 09/13/2018
September 17, 2018 Maureen Fitzgerald ATTC Network /NIATx Recovery Month celebrates the message that behavioral health is essential to overall health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people can and do recover. ATTC Regional Centers across the U.S. are helping to spread that message through presentations, publications, conferences, and by supporting local and regional Recovery Month […]
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Joining the Voices of Recovery: Joseph Green Inspires Through Spoken Word

Published: 08/21/2018
August 24, 2018 Maureen Fitzgerald ATTC Network Coordinating Office/NIATx Joining the voices of recovery this September—and all year long— is spoken word artist Joseph Green. Green is a motivational speaker, educational consultant, poet, and former Director of Youth Programs at Split This Rock, a Washington D.C. based organization that harnesses the power of poetry for […]
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Drug Contamination Crisis: Connecticut and Beyond

Published: 08/17/2018
August 21, 2018 Tonya Tavares and the New England ATTC (HHS Region 1) New Haven, Connecticut, recently faced a rash of overdoses linked to a suspected fentanyl-contaminated supply of K2, a synthetic marijuana also known as Spice. Taken alone, the effects of K2 can be unpredictable and even life-threatening. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is […]
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Addiction Docs On Call: Wisconsin Warmline Answers Doctors' Questions About SUD Treatment

Published: 08/15/2018
August 15, 2018 Maureen Fitzgerald ATTC Network/NIATx Say you're a primary care doctor in northern Wisconsin treating a patient with alcohol use disorder who is also using methamphetamine. Your med school training may not have covered substance use disorder treatment in depth, and you're not sure of the best treatment and prevention options for your […]
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Culturally Appropriate Mental Health Care to Address American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Mental Health Disparities

Published: 08/06/2018
August 6, 2018 Sean A. Bear, BA, CADC Co-Director, National American Indian and Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center Originally posted  in the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities blog, In the Spotlight Non-Hispanic American Indian and Native American (AI/AN) adults and children are at greater risk than all other racial groups of […]
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