Project Advisory Board Evalautions

If you left early or otherwise forgot to turn in your meeting evaluations, please fax them to Robert at 615-322-1141 or Barbara and Nancy at 615-741-5719.

We will make the meeting materials available online in the next several days and include information about possible follow up items, so check back often.

Materials from "State of the Child" Posted

Presentations and other materials from T-ACT's track at the TVC State of the Child conference have been posted and are available for download.

The host site is a little bare bones right now, but for now it is functional. In the future, materials for the PAB will be posted here.

Additional Information Added to Blog

If you look down the column to your right, I have added links to some resources that were mentioned during the conference, including:

• Tennessee Redline, a service of the TAADAS clearinghouse that provides information about substance abuse providers around the state 24/7. If you wish to be listed, here is the form to submit.
  
• Tennessee 2-1-1, a service of the United Way that exists online and by phone, by dialing 2-1-1, to obtain information about human services available in the state, including substance abuse and mental health treatment.
  
• SAMHSA's facility locator service, providing information on providers in Tennessee and nationwide.
  
• Association of Recovery Schools which provides information on recovery environments supported through schools.

TVC State of the Child Info Coming

Thank you to those who attended TVC's State of the Child Conference this week. Information from T-ACT's co-occurring disorders track will be posted over the weekend. (Working out hosting issues to store the presentations.)

In the meantime, please feel free to read through the site and archives for information related to the project and adolescent substance use treatment.

Changing Practice Patterns

This is a link to a blog maintained by economists at George Mason University in which one of the owners discusses his preference for more routinized medical practice.

I post it not because I (dis)agree with the author's opinion or those of people who commented. Rather I post it because:

• it provides an example of a topic that has relevance to substance abuse and the culture of evidence-based practice and best practices, and
  
  
• it provides an example of a post-and-comment model that I would like to see used in the T-ACT blog, that is, an opinion or knowledge about something relevant to the project is posted and members of the group post comments that enhance that knowledge through concurrence, disagreement, or whatever (so long as it is respectful and not given to political or ad hominem attacks).

If you are new to the blogging experience, follow the links within the author's posting and see what connections or new ideas it generates for you.

In the meantime, later this week I will post some information related to the experience at the Tennessee Voices for Children State of the Child Conference and associated meetings involving T-ACT staff and advisory board members.