What's New with NIATx-SI?

The NIATx-SI team (Jeanne Pulvermacher and Stephanie Richards)
has organized several activities for the first cohort of states: New York, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Kentucky, Iowa, and Colorado.

Activities include:

January 11 and 12: NIATx Coach Academy, Washington, D.C. Representatives from the NIATx-SI states and others will receive training and become apprentice NIATx coaches.

January 26 and 27: Change Team members from the NIATx-SI states will convene in Orlando to work on spread and sustainability strategies.

Monthly, through July 2010: states will meet via phone conference and webinar to discuss topics including: building provider trust, institutionalizing NIATx, conducting state-level walkthroughs, integrating substance abuse and mental health treatment, pay for performance, and the NIATx Provider Tool Kit and sustainability tool.

In addition, the NIATx-SI team will schedule Interest Circle calls facilitated by NIATx staff/coaches as needed on the topics of data and feedback, recovery oriented systems of care, and spreading process improvement capacity.

NIATx-SI is also scheduling Change Leader Academies in five of the six states, to take place throughout spring 2010.

NIATx-SI presents a great opportunity to draw from the key learnings these states have gained from various NIATx programs, including NIATx 200, Advancing Recovery, and STAR-SI. The project will build the states’ internal capacity to spread and sustain process improvement and work toward the goals outlined in their project charters.