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HIV PrEP videoes now available
Our waiting-list-only presentation “The Role of HIV Treatment as Prevention and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)” by Drs. Richard Elion and Amanda Castel was recorded and now available on our Youtube channel. The audience consisted of frontline healthcare providers and support teams who test for HIV infection and identify individuals who are at-high risk for HIV infection. This […]
Self Care Resource – Seasonal and Simple
Fans of our Self Care: A Guide for Addiction Professionals know that it highly recommends eating better as an important way to maintain one’s health and spirits. Yet we are the first to acknowledge how challenging this can be, even when it’s not a holiday season. So we were pleased to find a tool that can […]
Book Review: Redesigning Leadership by John Maeda
John Maeda’s Redesigning Leadership is a pretty little book whose insights about leadership are delivered in an easy to digest 78 pages. It has been definitively established that addictions treatment organizations are facing a severe shortage of adequately prepared leaders. While the author is not specifically coming from a behavioral healthcare background, many of his […]
Letter from the Executive Director: World AIDS Day 2012
December 1st, 2012, was the 24th year of observance of World AIDS Day. The observance was first conceived by two Global Programme on AIDS staff, James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, in August 1987. It was first observed on December 1st, 1988. The Status Current information from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that […]
Human Trafficking 101 for Service Providers now available in Spanish
We are pleased to offer this Spanish translation of our Human Trafficking 101 for Service Providers. Many thanks to Natalia Guevara (www.NataliaGuevaraTranslations.com) for her high quality translation services and our friends at the National Hispanic/Latino ATTC for reviewing her work. Trata de Personas 101: Guía para Proveedores de Servicios Hoy, veintisiete millones de personas están esclavizadas. […]
New Videoes on our Youtube Channel – Using the ATTC/NIDA Blending Products to Affect Change
Maxine Stitzer, Ph.D., principal investigator of the Mid-Atlantic node, explains the mission of the Clinical Trials Network to disseminate research-based drug abuse treatment into clinical practice. Dr. Stitzer shares with the audience how clinicians, scientists, and experienced trainers who are part of this NIDA/SAMSHA blending inititative have worked to create user-friendly treatment tools and […]
Trends in Behavioral Healthcare: Join the Conversation – The Road Map to 2014
The Danya Institute is pleased to present this regular series of orignal articles on trends in the field of behavioral healthcare. Our latest article is by special guest author Douglas Canter on Executive Director Ryan Springer’s presentation on The Road Map to 2014 earlier this year. “Specialty care knowledge is valuable,” said Ryan Springer, the Executive Director […]
Danya Institute’s Video Library on Youtube
From the Danya Institute YouTube Channel Clinical Trials Network – Brave New World Symposium 2013 What’s New Update 2013: STD, HIV, TB, Hepatitis, Family Planning and Addiction HIV PREP What’s New Update 2012: STD, HIV, TB, Hepatitis, Family Planning and Addiction Using the ATTC/NIDA Blending Products to Affect Change Case to Care Management in Health Care […]
Self Care: A Guide for Addiction Professionals
Self Care: A Guide to Addiction Professionals, is a publication by the Danya Institute and the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center and is available as a free iPad book through iTunes. An electronic copy can be downloaded for other devices from the ATTC network.