Monday, August 31, 2009

Benchmarking for Organizational Excellence in Addiction Treatment

NIATx has combined forces with the State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) and Behavioral Pathway Systems (BPS) to make comprehensive benchmarking data readily and affordably available to community-based substance abuse providers throughout the United States.

Read more about this nationwide benchmarking initiative or download the brochure.

ACTION II Press Release Now Available

The ACTION Campaign II press release is now available for distribution.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Upcoming Webinar: ACTION II Just a Click Away

Please join us for the next ACTION II webinar: ACTION II Just a Click Away.

Don Holloway will walk us through the new toolkit and share some of the promising practices that we have identified to have the greatest impact on an agency's customer service and financial health.

Date: September 8, 2009
Time: 12:00pm Eastern/11:00am Central/10:00am Mountain/9:00am Pacific
URL: http://niatx.acrobat.com/holloway/
Call-in number: 1-866-642-1665
Passcode: 821938

Friday, August 14, 2009

New: NIATx Provider Toolkit

The new NIATx Provider Toolkit is now available and ready to help you start making improvements at your agency. This new toolkit includes more than 60 updated promising practices to help you improve access and retention while also increasing the financial strength of your organization.

Take a look at the NIATx Way and get started making improvements today.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

ACTION Campaign II Kickoff Call

Thanks to everyone that joined the ACTION Campaign II kick off call with Lynn Madden!

As those of you on the call know, there were a number of technical issues and we want to apologize for the difficulties. We had over 130 people people on the call and we could hear that some of you were listening in groups, so we are glad that the topic generated so much interest. For those of you that couldn't get on the webinar since it was restricted to 99 people, we will be re-recording (without back ground noise) and posting it to the campaign page of the web site in a couple weeks. The slides are already posted to the webinar library of the ACTION II page.

We sure learned a lot about our own processes during the call. On the next call, the advanced call (Thursday, August 20 @ noon EDT, 11:00 CDT, 10:00 MDT, 9:00 PDT), Andy Quanbeck will be discussing the theory behind the practice and why getting people in more quickly will result in better attendance and greater revenue generation. We will have more lines available for viewing the webinar and will be capable of muting all participants for a quieter background of the presentation portion of the call.

So, if you couldn't get in last time, don't despair, we are addressing the glitches and will have our processes improved for the next call.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Welcome to the NIATx Blog

As we promised in our old media environments, we are beginning to pilot test new media.

We have been on twitter for a month and have nearly 100 followers and are investigating the best uses of Facebook. (Kim signed up for it and discovered that the best use is to reconnect with high school and college friends, but is not sure that is useful for NIATx).

Today we are launching our blog. We will talk about the new ideas we are investigating, grants we have received and opportunities for you to work with us on projects. We are also hoping that we can get a national dialogue on treatment quality going, so please do participate in the conversation.

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