NATIONAL OFFICE: Each ATTC Regional Center and the National Office has received 117 of the NIDA CD albums, The Science of Treatment. The National Office will fill all orders received while the supply lasts. When the National Office runs out of albums, they will forward the orders they cannot fill to the appropriate Regional Center to fill and notify the customer that their order was forwarded. The National Office suggests shipping these CD’s via the United States Postal Service and using the Media Mail Service rate designation. For more information, check out www.usps.com and search “Media Mail.” or click here.

NORTHWEST FRONTIER: The Northwest Frontier ATTC has contracted with Laura Burney Nissen, Ph.D., National Program Director for Reclaiming Futures, to develop a 1-day continuing education workshop on how to successfully engage families in addiction treatment. Tentatively titled Engaging and Empowering Families in Finding Solutions, the workshop will be piloted July 15 and 17 in Washington State. Our plan is to develop both a trainer guide and participant manual for the workshop. For more information contact Denna Vandersloot vandersd@ohsu.edu.

NATIONAL OFFICE: Get to kNOw: The National Office’s Summer 2008 Training Series - Coming this summer to a computer monitor and phone line near you! Please join any and all of the PowerPoint-assisted teleconference training series in which the ATTC National Office invites you to Get to kNOw …

• The NEW ATTC Style Guide
• The Web Site Administration Functions
• The NEW ATTC Products Database
• ATTCnetwork.org
• “Workforce Development” on ATTCnetwork.org
• “Featured Topics Library” on ATTCnetwork.org
• AddictionCareers.org
• fightRXabuse.org

For specific dates, times and descriptions please check the ATTC Intra-Network Calendar available on the Administrative Porthole page (scroll to bottom). You may register for any of the training series by clicking on this link and completing the on-line registration form: Click here to register.
Please contact the ATTC National Office: 816-235-6888 if you have any questions or email Laurie Krom at: kroml@umkc.edu.

NATIONAL OFFICE: The new ATTC Logos & Style Guide have been posted online through an FTP site, from which you can copy your logos onto your own desktop or preferred location. If you have access to Internet Explorer, you may click here,
or type ftp://www.attcnetwork.org into the address bar of the browser.

Username: NetworkStyleGuide
Password: Since2008

Follow the instructions that pop up, and you will eventually see the folder called “2008 Logos,” where you can click further and view the logos for your Regional Center. These are Read-Only files, and you can move them over to your own computer. Please contact Melanie Adkins at the National Office with any questions. The completed Style Guide, as well as other brochure, stationery, and e-pub templates, will also be made available through this FTP site in the coming weeks. Thanks again for your wonderful participation in this new ‘repositioning’ of the ATTC Network Visual Identity!

NORTHEAST: The Northeast ATTC is participating in Region II STD/HIV Prevention Training Center. The NYC DOHMH invites health care professionals for the Training of the Trainer session on the Ask, Screen, Intervene curriculum, developed by the National Network of Prevention Training Centers (PTC), and the AIDS Education Training Centers (AETC). The TOT will be held on July 17th at Cicatelli Associates from 9 AM to 5 PM. An agenda is being finalized. The course consists of four modules. Module 1 focuses on risk screening and is clinical in nature, Modules 2 and 3 focus on behavioral interventions and prevention messages, and Module 4 focuses on partner notification. More information on the curriculum can be found at: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/std/ptc-train-asi.shtml
A registration form will be sent out closer to the training date, and paperwork can be handed in either prior to or at the course itself. Please contact: Ms. Gowri Nagendra, MPH, PTC Program Director, 125 Worth St. CN 73.New York, NY 10013. Phone: 212 788 6618, Fax: 212 788 4368 gnagendr@health.nyc.gov or go to www.nyc.gov/health/std

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and the Pacific Southwest ATTC, is conducting a series of full-day trainings entitled: Trauma and Co-Occurring Disorders: Understanding and Working with Youth and Their Caregivers. This training series will be conducted for all LA County DMH agency staff that treat children ages 0-15. Trainers include: Jo Sornborger, PsyD, from the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and Dina Daleo, PsyD, Olga Tuller, Ph.D. and Kathleen Welch-Torres, PhD, from Prototypes. Training dates are as follows:

• July 9- Behavioral Health Services in Gardena, CA
• July 10- Phoenix House- Lake View Terrace
• July 14- California Endowment Center in Los Angeles
• July 16- St. Anne’s Conference Cetner in Hollywood
• July 18- Enki Health and Research Systems Inc. in El Monte

SOUTHEAST: Southeast ATTC Will be a co-sponsor of a Mini Medical School on Addiction to be held July 21 – 25 at Morehouse School of Medicine. This Mini School is entitled Understanding Drug Addiction: Focus on African Americans. This school is also being sponsored by The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), African American Researchers and Scholars, and Community Voices. The presenters will be Dr. Carl Hart; The Process of Addiction and Psychopharmacology, Dr. Lawrence S. Brown; Substance Use and Addiction: Individual to Community Issues and Research Implications, Dr. Westley Clark; Addiction Treatment and Services, Dr. Salaam Semaan; HIV/AIDS Epidemiology and Prevention Among Illicit Drug Users, and Dr. Jean Bonhomme; Common Medical Illnesses Among Drug And Alcohol Users.

NORTHWEST FRONTIER: The Northwest Frontier ATTC partnered with Washington Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Oregon Addiction and Mental Health Services, Alaska Division of Behavioral Health, and the SAMHSA Co-Occurring Center for Excellence to offer TIP 42 Training-of-Trainer workshops in each of these states, including two offerings in AK. Northwest Frontier will be offering technical assistance to those who attended the workshops as they use the TIP 42 curricula to transfer the skills and knowledge based in TIP 42 to other providers in their states.

NORTHWEST FRONTIER: The Northwest Frontier ATTC is providing leadership in the development of the Northwest Hispanic Addiction Professionals Initiative. Organizational meetings have been held in Oregon and Washington. Co-sponsoring the Institute Latino on August 21-22, 2008 in Wilsonville, Oregon with Addiction Counselor Certification Board (ACCBO), Addictions & Mental Health Division (AMHD), and Central City Concern.

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: On June 6 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona and Jun 13, 2008 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Michael Walker of the PSATTC delivered two seven-hour training seminars on the role of Child Protective Services (CPS) in working with meth-impacted families. A total of 42 service professionals attended these trainings. Topics included the neuroscience of methamphetamine, collaboration between substance abuse treatment providers and CPS, and Stages of Change.

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: On June 18, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, Michael Walker of the Pacific Southwest ATTC participated in the Arizona Office of The Court’s Full Court Press training series. Mr. Walker conducted two sessions on substance abuse treatment in the criminal justice system, with a focus on methamphetamine. Topics included the neuroscience of methamphetamine, short and long-term impacts on people who use the drug, evaluation considerations, and effective interventions.

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: On June 5, 2008 Michael Walker conducted a breakout session on ethics at the 6th Annual Indian Health Services Behavioral Health Conference in Tempe, Arizona. Topics covered included informed consent, patient/counselor relationships, professional conduct, and power relations in the therapeutic relationship.

SOUTHEAST: Southeast ATTC is an active participant and partner of KidsNet Georgia. KidsNet Georgia work toward the development of what is known as a “system of care” for the community’s most vulnerable youth and families. The goal of system of care activities is to improve youth’s ability to function at school, at home, and at play and to avoid progression into more restrictive, higher level, expensive out-of-home care by supporting collaboration among all child-serving agencies and community partners including addition treatment agencies.

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: On July 14-18, 2008 in Sedona, AZ, the PSATTC will host the 9th Annual Summer Institute. This year’s event continues a tradition of excellence as the PSATTC hosts an array of presenters representing the top leaders and innovators in the behavioral health field. Some features of SI08 will include: 6 nationally renowned keynote speakers; 40 breakout sessions covering a broad variety of important topics; more than 500 attendees from all levels of the behavioral health community; the first-ever weeklong Motivational Interviewing Academy; and deluxe conference accommodations at the Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa. The lineup of keynote speakers and trainers represents some of the leading clinical trainers and researchers from across the country, including:

• David Shern, Ph.D., President & Executive Director , Mental Health America
• Michael Flaherty, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions (IRETA)
• Michael Dennis, Ph.D., Senior Research Psychologist and Director, Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN) Coordinating Center, Chestnut Health Systems
• Judith Cook, Ph.D., Director, Mental Health Service Research Program & Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Richard Rawson, Ph.D., Associate Director, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP)
• Margaret (Peggy) Swarbrick, PhD, OTR, CPRP, Director, Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey

For more information about SI 2008, visit: www.cabhp.asu.edu.

MID- AMERICA: Mid-America ATTC will be delivering the 1.5 day Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency (MIA-STEP) course at the University of Missouri-St. Louis J.C. Penney Conference Center (Hawthorne Room) in St. Louis, Missouri, September 25-26, 2008. Steve Brazill, MAC, RAODAC, CADC III, will be the lead trainer.
The participant requirements are:
• Have completed an Advanced level of MI training
• Currently using MI in clinical practice
• Currently supervising/mentoring/coaching other counselors in MI techniques
There is no charge for the course but registration will be required. For more information contact Pat Stilen at stilenp@umkc.edu or 816.482.1168.

NIDA Initiative Activities