NIDA Newsletter

This link takes you to the current issue of NIDA Notes, a newsletter published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Among the interesting articles: one describing a lottery-reward system used to encourage clients to submit clean urine samples.

I'm also adding NIDA and NIAAA to the links on the right-hand side of the page.

Experiences of Rural Families

This 2004 report, sponsored by the Casey Foundation and authored in part by TCCY, discusses results of focus groups and interviews with rural families from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. While it does not focus specifically on substance abuse services, many of the problems faced by rural families will affect the capacity to effect change in the substance abuse treatment system in those areas. A link will also be kept on the archive page.

Prevention Conference, April 2006

PRIDE Youth Programs is hosting its 30th anniversary World Drug Prevention Conference in Charleston, WV, April 11-14, 2007. For more information, follow the links or call 800-668-9277 or email peggy(AT)prideyouthprograms.org.

Government Benefits Site

The federal government maintains a website with information about federal programs for which individuals may qualify: www.govbenefits.gov. You can search by state, too. This is Tennessee's page.

Services Analysis

Today concluded the first meeting related to a technical assistance project that GOCCC initiated through SAMHSA, as described at the last PAB meeting. One component of the grant is to build capacities around data sharing and identification of funding mechanisms through the public system. As part of that, Barabara and Nancy joined SAMHSA's consultant, Doreen Cavanaugh, in meetings with representatives from the child serving agencies to discuss each department's needs, interests, and capacities in this regard. A full summary will be posted soon.

As part of that meeting, we mentioned that the report by Northrup & Heflinger (2000) that described the then-current system would be made available. That report is posted on our archives at t-act.info. Additional materials will be posted as I receive electronic copies.