NIATx E-News

The NIATx team has developed a set of project aims and sample aim statements for the prevention field.

The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) is an essential tool in the NIATx Process Improvement Toolbox.  In a NIATx change project, teams use the Nominal Group Technique to brainstorm ideas and reach consensus on which one to test first. Everyone shares their insights, and all ideas have equal weight.

The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) and NIATx were awarded a SAMHSA grant to lead the Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center in fall 2017. In Fall 2018, we received awards to lead the new Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center.

The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) has received two additional five-year awards from SAMHSA. With the new funding, CHESS will host the Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center, in addition to the Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC).

Five Los Angeles County mental health treatment agencies participated in a NIATx project with goals to increase client engagement and retention in CalWorks, the state’s welfare-to-work program. 

Hope House, led by Executive Director Karen Saltzman, provides residential and intensive outpatient substance use and mental health disorder services in Augusta, Georgia for women and women with children.  

Some NIATx researchers didn’t have to travel far to attend the Addiction Health Services Research Conference 2017, held October 18-20 at Madison’s Monona Terrace. Others came from across the country to join nearly 200 colleagues to learn about the latest findings in addiction health services. 

The walk-through is one of the essential tools that change teams use to experience their organization’s services exactly as a customer would. 

Ohio change team asks: Why are we collecting these forms and why now? The answer led to a better process and fewer forms.

The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) is one of the essential tools that NIATx change teams use to implement successful change projects. 

Looking for a simple tool to improve transitions between levels of care?  

NIATx has a new online resource for you: our Buprenorphine Implementation Toolkit.

The NIATx model for process improvement centers on five essential principles that emerged from a research study of improvement projects in various industries. 

Even in our increasingly digital world, paperwork continues to create a barrier to accessing many kinds of services. 

WomanSpace Philadelphia is a residential treatment program for dually-diagnosed, chronically homeless women. 

Understanding and involving the customer has more influence on a project’s success that all the other factors put together, and that’s why we made this the Number One principle of NIATx. 

Attending a NIATx Change Leader Academy equipped the Milwaukee County Delinquency and Court Services Division (DCSD) with new tools and a new perspective on how to deliver services with a customer focus. 

There is much to be learned from the successes of businesses in other industries, and there is no reason that the practices that work for them cannot be creatively reshaped to allow your organization to be more successful.

Bobbi Douglas, MSSA, LICDC, Executive Director of OneEighty in Wooster, Ohio was among the first addiction treatment professionals to use NIATx tools and techniques to improve access to and retention in treatment.

Change is easy! Since 2003, NIATx has been helping organizations make small changes that yield big rewards: shorter wait times, fewer no-shows, increased admissions—and a better bottom line!

Creating new products and services was the focus of the BHBusiness Innovator’s Network, a NIATx pilot project conducted from March-August 2016.  

The Gathering Place is a non-profit Recovery Center for adults with mental illness and co-occurring disorders located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

Using NIATx tools and promising practices for the past decade has helped the Mid Coast Hospital’s Addiction Resource Center (ARC) in Brunswick, Maine, reduce overdose deaths, treat more clients, and increase efficiency overall, says Eric Haram, director of outpatient behavioral health. 

When JoAnn Geiger, Behavioral Health and Clinic Manager for the Juneau County Department of Human Services in Mauston, Wisconsin, was assembling her 2016 change team for the NIATx Wisconsin Mental Health Collaborative, she invited members of her county’s law enforcement agencies. 

Attendance in the intensive outpatient treatment program is up, thanks to a recent NIATx change project at the Gaiser Center in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

Laura says that attending the two-day workshop opened her eyes to the many ways the NIATx process could help her organization, especially since the CCS division recently expanded its service area to include neighboring Lafayette County. 

Mark Zehner, formerly an Associate Researcher at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS), has accepted a new position at the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI).

Future change leaders from both coasts and states in between met in Madison to learn the NIATx model and pick their first change projects at the recent NIATx Change Leader Academy. 

Todd Molfenter, Senior Scientist at the Center for Health Enhancement System Studies (CHESS) and NIATx Deputy Director will lead a five-year NIDA grant to increase physician capacity to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid misuse disorders.  

The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) sponsors Problem Gambling Awareness Month each year to increase awareness of problem gambling.  

Participating in a NIATx project helped the Change Team boost continuation from detox to continuing care to 63% by fall 2015.

People in the criminal justice system often have a hard time making a successful re-entry to their communities. And those in need of substance abuse treatment face additional barriers in gaining access to the treatment services they need. 

Kim Johnson, NIATx Co-Deputy Director, has accepted a new position as Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 

Choose from one of three learning formats: Join a learning network, take a course at your own pace, or get individual coaching.

In 2015, we featured stories about organizations new to NIATx, as well as some that have been with NIATx since its beginnings.  Here’s a recap of some of our top stories. 

The Jefferson County Human Services Department in Jefferson, Wisconsin, has been using the NIATx model for its improvement projects almost continuously since 2009. 

Collecting data is an essential part of the NIATx model, as it allows you to measure whether or not your improvement efforts are working. 

A new research study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse will address a longstanding and vexing problem in in behavioral health care: Access to integrated services for persons with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. 

Arapahoe House began in 1975 as a community effort launched by the Arapahoe County Colorado League of Women Voters. 

Technology offers new ways to provide substance use disorder treatment and recovery services. 

SAMHSA’s Recovery Month highlights individuals who have reclaimed their lives and are living happy and healthy lives in long-term recovery and also honors the prevention, treatment, and recovery service providers who make recovery possible. 

The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) has received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to test combining medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with the A-CHESS mobile health system.

In 2011, Spectrum began negotiations to offer primary care services at the Lincoln St. Clinic through a partnership with the neighboring Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center (EMK) clinic.

The primary care clinic opened in spring 2012 with the capacity to serve 6-8 primary care clients weekly. Today, the clinic offers 14-16 primary care appointments weekly, serving 12 clients. 

“KRCC was very fortunate to be selected as a grantee in the original NIATx demonstration project back in 2003,” says Mike. “Our main motivation for applying for the grant was to find a tried and true method to address systems problems and make lasting changes. There’s no question that our growth is due to using NIATx and improving our new programs as they grew.” 

Our research team at NIATX was very interested in the paper by Fields, Knudsen, and Roman on implementation of NIATx processes in substance use disorder treatment centers. (Implementation of Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers, Journal of Behavioral Health Services Research, May 2015.) A summary of the article is available in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Dissemination Library.

Mat got started with NIATx back in 2005 when he was part of a change team at Central New York Services (CNYS) in Syracuse.

A NIATx project conducted from February 2013 to June 2014 investigated the adoption of telemedicine services among purchasers of addiction treatment in five states and one county

The behavioral healthcare field lost a great leader with the sudden passing of Mike Boyle on May 7.  As CEO and president of Fayette Companies in Peoria, Illinois, Boyle was among the first addiction treatment leaders in the nation to test the NIATx model.

NIATx believes that creating strategic partnerships is becoming an integral part of addiction treatment and recovery processes.

The NIATx Ohio Buprenorphine Implementation Study, launched in fall 2012, is testing ways to increase use of buprenorphine using NIATx tools and techniques.

A new white paper from the ATTC highlights the NIATx model in integrating
substance use treatment and other health care.

First Step Home is a treatment program for women in recovery and their children in Cincinnati.  NIATx change projects over the last few years have resulted in dramatic improvements in show rates, continuation, and retention.

Based in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) operates 20 facilities, including five outpatient sites, in five counties (covering 1400 square miles) in southeastern Indiana. 

What's it like to be a customer of your organization? NIATx coaches share their favorite walk-through stories.

The purpose of the NIATx Change Leader Academy (CLA) has remained constant over the years: to teach the basics of the NIATx model in a format that attendees can apply in their work settings as soon as they get back to their offices.

NIATx is pleased to announce our spring 2015 Change Leader Academy, scheduled for March 24-25, 2015, at The Pyle Center in Madison, WI. 

Carrie Arriete, Billing and Intake Coordinator for SETCADA, participated in BHbusiness Learning Network on Third-party Billing and Compliance. Offered by SAMHSA at no cost to participants, BHBusiness Learning Networks provide online training, peer networking, and guidance from expert coaches.

Kindle Winner for September 2014: Molly Pellettiere,

Molly was randomly selected to win a Kindle Paperwhite for posting to the ATTC/NIATx Network of Practice website at least three times during the months of August, September, or October 2014.

Offering more topics and tools to take advantage of opportunities for coverage expansion, BHBusiness Plus is now accepting applications for February 2015 networks

It’s not too late to enroll in BHbusiness Plus online learning networks starting in October 2014! We’re extending the application deadline to September 5 – sign up now!

This dissemination and implementation project will test promising practices to increase continuation in care.

BHbusiness is a training program funded by SAMHSA that’s designed to help behavioral health executives and their teams make the necessary changes to survive and thrive in the new healthcare marketplace.

In this free one-hour webinar, 5 states and one county participating in a NIATx-led project describe their efforts to plan and implement technology to support treatment and recovery. 

The Medication Research Partnership (MRP), launched in 2011, is a five-year project testing the Advancing Recovery model that NIATx designed as a framework for implementing evidence-based practices such as medication-assisted treatment (MAT).

Larisa Traga uses the NIATx principle to improve services 

Larisa and Jodie both took the January challenge: Name the one NIATx principle that has more power to promote a successful improvement than all the other NIATx principles combined. Answer: To understand and involve the customer.

One of SSTAR’s initial NIATx change projects project increased the daily census and created a financial surplus for an inpatient dual diagnosis program—for the first time in a decade.

Applications still being accepted for free training on essential business operations.

A Spanish version of A-CHESS (Addiction Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System), the smartphone application developed to provide support to people with substance use disorders, is now being tested in Boston.

If one of your resolutions for 2014 is to try some effective new ways to tackle quality issues in your organization, visit the Promising Practices on the NIATx web site.

BHBusiness Strategic Planning Learning Network helps increase visibility among new clients and new payers

The awards recognize the achievements of participants in BHBusiness: Mastering Essential Business Operations. Up to five winners will receive an all-expense paid trip to the National Council for Behavioral Health Conference, May 5-7, 2014, in Washington, D.C.

Tom Savidge has served as CEO of PORT Human Services since it launched in 2003. The organization began with just 35 employees at one location in Greenville, North Carolina. Since then, the staff has grown to include 284 employees at 28 physical locations. During fiscal year 2012-2013 the organization served 18,958 unique clients from 36 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. 

Free training from SAMHSA to help your organization survive and thrive in today's rapidly changing health care environment!

“What impressed me most about the two-day session in Madison was that I could use what I learned as soon as I got back to the office,” says Jason Varga, Special Projects Director at the Human Services Federation in Lincoln, Nebraska.

NIATx is pleased to announce two opportunities for you to attend a NIATx Change Leader Academy this fall!

Providing comprehensive and affordable primary care for people living with addictions, who often suffer other chronic health conditions, is a top priority for many addiction treatment providers. One approach to integrating specialty care with primary care is to collaborate with a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).

A first-time attendee to the NIATx Summit and SAAS National Conference, Schantate liked that the workshops and Deep Dive Sessions included practical tips that she could apply immediately in her agency. Each workshop was “awesome in its own way,” says Schantate.

This fall (October 1–2), NIATx is offering a “special session” Change Leader Academy in Madison, Wisconsin, specifically for professionals from the criminal justice system: drug courts, offender re-entry programs, and promising practice programs.

Starting in September 2013, the NIATx E-news will offer a new feature: Process Improvement 101!

This year’s Summit will include workshops related to two new NIATx learning collaboratives that launched in June. Each four-month project is funded by SAMHSA through JBS International.

Nearly 800 organizations from 44 states are participating in the first round of learning networks in BHBusiness: Mastering Essential Business Operations.

It’s not too late to get the discounted rate on the 2013 NIATx Summit and SAAS National Conference, July 14-16, in San Diego!  NIATx and SAAS have extended the discounted rate indefinitely to help offset the cost of attendance. 

This NIDA funded study is testing ways to increase use of buprenorphine in Ohio, where opioid addiction has reached crisis proportions.

This year we're celebrating your innovative spirit with the theme of "Innovation, integration, implementation: the business of behavioral healthcare."

Plan to attend the spring 2013 NIATx Change Leader Academy—space still available for April 24-25 at the Pyle Center on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus, Madison, Wisconsin.

Join us in recognizing innovation, integration, and implementation at the 2013 NIATx Summit and SAAS National Conference in San Diego, July 14-16!  

The West End Clinic (WEC) Outpatient Addiction Services at the Massachusetts General Hospital participated in NIATx 200, a randomized controlled trial that studied the effectiveness of process improvement in addiction treatment.

Like many states, Florida shows how improvement efforts in one or two organizations sparked the spread and diffusion of the NIATx model across the state.

ATTC report offers a unique picture of the SUD workforce.

How? Submit an application for the 2013 iAward!

NIATx designed this yearlong learning collaborative to help providers develop business skills they’ll need to adapt to the changes anticipated with full implementation of health reform in 2014. 

Join NIATx and SAAS for another great conference: Innovation, Integration, and Implementation.

Looking at data in a new way is helping Volunteer Behavioral Health Care System in Tennessee improve continuation system-wide.

in 2012, Horizon Health Services was recognized by Best Companies to Work For New York—for the fourth year in a row.

The Vermont Agency of Human Services sent seven staff members to a NIATx Change Leader Academy in 2010.

High Point's MBHP clients tend to have complicated case management, social service, and care coordination needs. The variety of challenges they face affect their ability to complete substance abuse treatment successfully, leading to high readmission rates to inpatient programs.

The Adanta Group in Kentucky used the NIATx approach to examine its processes and meet increased expenses. The result: improved services and extra revenue for salary increases.

Prevention program in Youngstown, Ohio, uses the NIATx approach to empower staff and improve programming

We live in an exciting time for substance abuse and mental health treatment services. The changes underway offer great opportunities, but organizations need to rethink all aspects of how they do business to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

Nineteen of the 20 provider organizations that participated in the NIATx Opioid Treatment Provider Process Improvement Learning Collaborative, Cohort II, convened at the 2012 AATOD National Conference in Las Vegas, April 22.

NIATx has received a grant from NIDA for the project "To Test a Payer/Treatment Agency Intervention to Increase Use of Buprenorphine".

Angie Maldonado, Program Director for Adolescent Outpatient Services at the Center for Drug-free Living in Orlando attended the very first NIATx Change Leader Academy in March 2006. "The academy was a real eye-opener," says Angie.

In February 2012, NIATx kicks off a five-month technical assistance project that will work to improve collaboration between community-based primary care and behavioral health in Wisconsin.

The Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS) provides statewide leadership for alcohol and other drug addiction prevention and treatment.

The success of the NIATx model in substance abuse and mental health treatment settings sparked an increase in projects in other human services areas in 2011: aging, criminal justice, HIV/AIDS, and programs for pregnant and parenting women. NIATx also introduced process improvement to several state agencies in our home state of Wisconsin.

Drug courts offer substance abuse treatment to addicted offenders as an alternative to incarceration. A walk-through exercise helped this drug court program identify simple changes to reducing waiting time and increase admissions.

Organizations from across the country have been selected to participate in the NIATx Business Practices for the Future Learning Collaborative, Cohort II.

In the first round of NIATx-SI: Business Practices for the Future, Fee-for-Service, treatment providers from around the country worked on one of three aims: to create a billing system, improve an existing billing system, or increase contracts with third-party payers.  Check out the new Promising Practices that share lessons they learned over the course of the one-year project. 

NIATx researchers share their study results in several recently-published articles.

The NIATx-SI Business Practices for the Future Learning Collaborative held a close-out session at the 2011 NIATx Summit/SAAS Annual Conference in Boston.

Evidence-based practices and how to implement them is a priority for many substance abuse treatment organizations.  To help with this priority, NIATx has launched a new project, the NIDA-funded Building a Sustainable National Infrastructure for Research and Dissemination of Improved Behavioral Treatment Practices.

Dr. Jay Ford, NIATx Director of Research, has been selected to serve as a member of the Management Engineering/Process Improvement Committee of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Congratulations to this year's winners!

Visit the Publications page on the NIATx website to view the complete list of articles published in peer-reviewed journals in 2011.

This year’s NIATx Summit and SAAS National Conference offers a place for CEOs, executive directors, and agency leaders to share their revolutionary strategies at special sessions called CEO Roundtable Sessions.

Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is an ideal service for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). SBIRT improves people’s lives, reduces healthcare costs, and generates positive impacts for families and communities.

Create a storyboard at the NIATx Summit and SAAS National Conference, and you could win an award! We’re providing the space and the materials. All you need to bring is your success story and your creativity.

The NIATx ACTION Campaign II launched at the 2009 NIATx Summit/SAAS National Conference in Tucson, July 29–August 1, 2009. With the Campaign coming to a close at the end of June, we like to share a few ACTION Campaign Fun Facts with you!

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, the National Association of Community Health Centers, NIATx, and the State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) have come together with SAMHSA funding to form the Business Operations for Behavioral Health Collaborative.  Its mission is to provide cross-cutting, high quality training, educational opportunities, and resources for service providers to implement efficient and cost effective business solutions.

Fayette Companies earns the majority of its revenue from state contracts, but has also been contracting with third-party payers for over 20 years.

Help us celebrate everything you've done to make the ACTION Campaign a success.

Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) is the county agency that provides substance abuse treatment and mental health services for children and adults in San Mateo County, California. BHRS is one of several payers participating in the NIATX Business Practices for the Future Learning Collaborative.

Ninety practitioners attended a February 5 training to prescribe buprenorphine in an office-based setting. The training took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was organized by the Caribbean Basin & Hispanic Addiction Technology Transfer Center (CBHATTC) of the Universidad Central del Caribe.

Happy New Year! We hope that 2011 is off to a good start for you and your organization. As you make your resolutions for this year, please be sure to add “Join ACTION Campaign webinars” to your list.

The Open Society Foundation has awarded NIATx a two-year $400,000 grant to prepare the addiction field for changes expected due to health care reform, parity legislation, state budget shortfalls, and the increased focus on performance accountability.

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and NIATx are partnering on a learning collaborative to give community health centers and their substance abuse treatment organization partners the tools and technical assistance they need to integrate substance abuse treatment services into their operations.

The NIATx Process Mapping project studied the flow of data in eight substance abuse treatment agencies for three processes: admission, discharge, and transfer between levels of care.

NIATx training for the second cycle of community-based organizations from the East Central region of Puerto Rico attracted a full house on September 30 in Caguas, Puerto Rico.

The NIATx-SI Business Practices for the Future Learning Collaborative is ready to launch with a kick-off meeting in October.

Participants in the NIATx Opioid Treatment Program will be holding their closeout session at this year's AATOD National Conference held October 23-27 in Chicago.  Participants will share their results from applying NIATx process improvement methods in their agencies. 

The NIATx Puerto Rico participant Corporation SANOS in Caguas learned a surprising lesson in its recorrido (walk-through): lack of a sign identifying the agency was a barrier for new clients.

Dennis Grantham, Senior Editor with Behavioral Healthcare, posted an article summarizing the Federal Leadership Panel at this year's NIATx Summit.

Enter the ACTION Campaign II Promising Practices Story Contest, and you could win an all-expense paid trip to the 2010 SAAS National Conference/NIATx Summit.

The New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) has a vision to provide "welcoming, affordable and easy access to person-centered addiction services for all." To help make that vision become reality, OASAS launched their new 100 Walkthroughs in 100 Days Campaign on December 1, 2009.

The NIATx model of process improvement is expanding not only to other areas of behavioral health—most notably, mental health—but also to another language and culture in Puerto Rico.

2009 has been an exciting year for NIATx, marking the conclusion of several innovative programs and the beginning of new ones.

The response to the NIATx Accelerating Reform Initiative Request for Proposals exceeded our expectations, attracting many high quality submissions from across the country.

The Massachusetts NIATx 200 participants gathered on October 16, 2009 to both celebrate their success in the project and to continue to learning about process improvement. More than 50 people from some 20 treatment provider sites attended the daylong event held at the Beechwood Inn in Worcester.

Our second national campaign is off to an amazing start! Participation in our twice-monthly webinars increases with each presentation, and we're glad that the Campaign is reaching so many more organizations.

Assessment & Treatment Alternatives (ATA) is a non-profit forensic mental health clinic based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Implementing NIATx recommended changes not only resulted in improved show rates but has led to an estimated increase in annual revenue in excess of $100,000.

Dave Gustafson, Director of NIATx, invites you to join ACTION Campaign II, Financial Strength in a Changing World.

NIATx is pleased to announce a new, cost-effective training offering! Learn leadership skills, tips and tricks from leadership expert Chris Hinrichs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Executive Education.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has awarded $2.2 million in grants to six state-provider partnerships through Advancing Recovery: State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care, the foundation's initiative to improve the quality of alcohol and drug addiction treatment in the United States by promoting the use of evidence-based practices.

The ACTION Campaign is short for Adopting Changes To Improve Outcomes Now — promotes the national adoption of proven practices for enhancing client access to care and their overall engagement in treatment. The campaign focuses on the adoption of one of three goals:

A new $11 million initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is working to improve treatment systems for addiction recovery patients. Co-directed by Research Professor David Gustafson, Advancing Recovery: State and Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care seeks to implement evidence-based practices in addiction treatment through partnerships between state agencies and treatment providers around the country.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the award of seven cooperative agreements totaling $6.7 million over 3 years under the Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention – State Implementation (STAR-SI) program to help states identify and implement methods to enhance individual access to and retention in community-based outpatient substance abuse treatment programs.  The grants were announced during the presentation by H. Westley Clark, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Director of  SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, during the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) Annual Conference in Burbank, California. 

Dr. David Gustafson, director of the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx), will present on connections between addiction and mental health at the 21st Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta on November 3, 2005.

Stanley Street Treatment and Resources, Inc. (SSTAR) announced today that the nonprofit health care and social service agency has been selected with 12 other treatment sites to participate in a project of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Paths to Recovery national program. The project is part a unique learning collaborative designed to improve access and retention in substance abuse treatment.

Cornerstone Counseling Center has been selected along with 12 other treatment sites throughout the United States to participate in a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Paths to Recovery, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced today that 13 community-based addiction treatment organizations have received funding to participate in a unique "learning collaborative" to improve access to and retention in addiction treatment.

Gateway to Prevention and Recovery, a not-for-profit addiction recovery program in Shawnee which offers outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment services in Pottawatomie and surrounding counties, has received a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) through its Paths to Recovery national program.

The Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc. was awarded $3,343,000 in Federal grant funds to develop six new programs.

The Axis I Center of Barnwell has been chosen as one of 10 substance abuse treatment sites in the nation - and the only Southeastern program - to participate in Paths to Recovery, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Paths to Recovery, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced today that Kentucky River Community Care, Inc. (KRCC) is one of 10 substance abuse treatment sites selected to receive funding and participate in a unique learning collaborative which will address organizational barriers to substance abuse treatment.

Jackie Nitschke Center has been chosen as one of ten substance abuse treatment sites to participate in a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project, called Paths To Recovery, is a unique learning collaborative which will address the organizational barriers to substance abuse treatment.

St. Christopher's Inn, a not-for-profit substance abuse treatment clinic and one of the nation's longest running men's shelters, has been named a national team member of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Paths to Recovery Learning Collaborative. Out of the 334 substance abuse sites that submitted proposals, only ten organizations from around the country were selected to participate in this unique learning collaborative to address the organizational barriers to substance abuse treatment.

Paths to Recovery, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced today that 10 substance abuse treatment sites have been selected to receive funding as they participate in a unique learning collaborative which will address the organizational barriers to substance abuse treatment.