Advancing Recovery Celebrates National Learning Session

The Advancing Recovery (AR) study celebrated a pinnacle event January 14 and 15, 2010 in Washington, D.C. with the program's final national learning session. This five-year, $17 million dollar study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with NIATx and the Treatment Research Institute (TRI) collaborating as the AR national program office.
Two sets of AR grantees in 12 states worked to promote the introduction of evidence-based practices in addiction treatment. Secondary goals included measuring the effects that implementation of these system-wide evidence-based practices have on regulatory, financial, and inter-/intra-organizational processes on a statewide level (i.e., "whole systems change").
States participating in the study include: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Rhode Island, Texas, West Virginia.

ACTION Campaign Webinar: Increasing Collections from Insurance Companies

Join us tomorrow, February 18 at 11:00 am CST for a FREE ACTION Campaign II webinar. John Greenawalt from TERROS in Phoenix, Arizona and Wendy Danicourt from Operation PAR, Pinellas Park, Florida, will discuss their real world solutions to increasing collections from insurance providers.

Also, make sure to download February's promising practices. Promising practices let us learn from others and provide inspiration as we implement our own change projects. We encourage you to try them out in your agency.

February's promising practices focus on tapping into referral sources and increasing collections from insurance companies.

NIATx Accelerating Reform Initiative - Leadership Forum

22 forward-thinking organizations from across the country are meeting in Madison February 10-12 to share ideas on the changes that parity and potential health care reform will bring.

The NIATx Accelerating Reform Initiative Leadership Forum featured presenters include Victor Capoccia, Open Society Institute, Gabrielle de la Gueronniere, Legal Action Center, Anne Herron, SAMHSA, and Suzanne Fields, MassHealth, along with representatives from various provider agencies.

SAMHSA TCE/HIV Program: NIATx Learning Collaborative

On February 3, the NIATx STAR (Support, Training and Resource) Program held a grantee kick-off meeting with participants of the SAMHSA TCE/HIV NIATx Learning Collaborative. The meeting featured James Harrison (of NIATx founding member site Brandywine Counseling) discussing how HIV/AIDS-specific programs have successfully used NIATx principles. Fifteen treatment agencies working with HIV/AIDS clients are entering into this pilot Learning Collaborative to improve access and retention processes, with a particular interest in increasing use of rapid HIV testing.

Sites include:
North New Jersey AIDS Alliance
Healing with Caare, Inc.
Safe Haven Outreach Ministry
Watts Healthcare Corporation
Yale University
Bienvenidos Children's Center
Community Health Awareness
New Horizons
Latino Commission on AIDS
Lower Eastside Service Center
Gandara Mental Health Center
Promesa, Inc.
The Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation
Gaudenzia, Inc.
Urban Renewal Corporation

ACTION Campaign II Promising Practices

Each month the ACTION Campaign II highlights a promising
practice or two from the NIATx Provider Toolkit. With a focus
on building financial strength in a changing world, our
January and February Promising Practices give you strategies for developing relationships with your referral agencies. Hear how one organization became a preferred provider on the next ACTION Campaign II Webinar, February 9, 2010, 11:00 a.m. Central.

ACTION Campaign II Webinar Featuring Tom McLellan on Health Care Reform

The NIATx ACTION Campaign II was pleased to feature Dr. Tom McLellan,
Deputy Director of the ONDCP, on our most recent webinar. Missed it?
Visit the ACTION Campaign Webinar Library at www.niatx.net/action/webinars.aspx.