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Trends in Behavioral Healthcare: Join the Conversation – Health Exchanges Promise Sweeping Change

The Danya Institute and Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network are pleased to present this regular series of orignal articles on trends in the field of behavioral healthcare.  Our latest article is an in-depth look at health exchanges by special guest author Douglas Canter. Health exchanges promise sweeping change Congress enacted the Patient Protection and […]


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 […]


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. […]


The ACMHA/Magellan Webinar Series

The ACMHA/Magellan Webinar Series continues on Thursday, November 15, at 2:00 p.m. EST with MY LIFE: Magellan Youth Leaders Inspiring Future Empowerment presented by Greg Dicharry, CPRP. This webinar is designed to increase the competency of clinicians working with youth to further engage, assess and treat family systems, rather than the individual child outside of its family […]


Dialogue Newsletter: November 2012

    November 2012 Issue > HIV/AIDS  (news from our Center of Excellence) Trends in Behavioral Healthcare:  Join the Conversation – Human Trafficking and HIV in DC by Abby Charles. This annual walk, held on the National Mall, brings together thousands from the DC community with dozens of local, national, and international nonprofit organizations to raise awareness and increase funding to […]


2012 Recovery Month Essay Contest!

          This is the final week to accept submissions for the 2012 Recovery  Month Essay Contest! Contest information, guidelines and submission instructions are available at: http://www.attcnetwork.org/2012essaycontest.asp


SAMHSA on National Action Alliance on Suicide Prevention

Participants spoke about suicide prevention efforts. They said mental health and substance abuse was a public health issue which should be confronted by destigmatizing mental illness and suicide. They focused on an initiative where the department of Health and Human Services would provide nearly $56 million in new grants to support the national strategy. The […]

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