Training Opportunity

TAMHO is sponsoring a Tennessee Conference on Alcohol Tobacco & Other Drug Use Prevention. The program will be at Montgomery Bell State Park August 13-15, 2006.

The site has details on the program, cost, and continuing education information. Additional details may be obtained from Jackie Crumley (jcrumley [at] tamho.org 615-244-2220 ext. 15) or Teresa Fuqua (tfuqua [at] tamho.org 615-244-2220 ext. 14).

Evidence-based Practices & Instruments Database

As part of our literature review of evidence-based practices in adolescent treatment, we found a couple of searchable databases maintained at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington.

• Evidence-based treatment
• Screening & assessment instruments

If you find other useful tools or tips on evidence-based treatment, feel free to post a comment to this entry.

Screening & Assessment Survey

Click on the following to link to take the T-ACT Project Advisory Board Screening & Assessment Survey. The survey should take about 10 minutes.

Under Construction

As you may be able to tell, the blog is very much a skeleton at this point and is still under construction. The Vanderbilt evaluation team's weblog (or blog) for T-ACT is designed to provide:

1. information to T-ACT Project Advisory Board members about the project,
   
2. a forum for members to discuss or provide information about particular issues, and
   
3. a resource for information related to the project or substance abuse services and adolescents.

This is also a test to see whether this new technology can be helpful in providing a communications hub for projects like this. Our hope is that it eventually will serve as an electronic community bulletin board where members may post their own announcements or questions directly to spark discussion among members and speed dissemination of information.

Also, the list of links is far from complete. If you would like to suggest a site for us to link to, please feel free to make the suggestion in a comment to this post. Or, you may email Robert Saunders at Robert.C.Saunders [ AT ] Vanderbilt.Edu.

We hope this proves useful and beneficial for members.