Get the Support you need.
Need consultation to expand your substance use recovery work? We offer tailored support (called Technical Assistance) to help grow, improve, and enhance recovery support services nationwide.
What is Technical Assistance (TA)?
Technical Assistance (TA) is the process of providing people, organizations, or programs the specialized support and guidance they need to grow, improve, and reach their goals. TA can include things like:
Expert advice
Training
Creating useful tools or resources
Planning strategies
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Anyone—individuals, organizations, communities, states, tribes, and territories that provide or support services intended for people who are experiencing challenges related to a substance use or co-occurring condition.
Additional TA Resources
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The African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence is a new national Center funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
They are determined to help their field transform behavioral health services for African Americans, making them: Safer, More effective, More accessible, More inclusive More welcoming, More engaging, and More culturally appropriate and responsive.
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The AANHPI ‘Ohana Center of Excellence is your source for empowerment, education, and support for individuals seeking behavioral healthcare, including mental health and substance use resources. They center (w)holistic and cultural approaches to serving the needs of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
They also provide training and technical assistance for those working in substance use, behavioral, and mental health to better serve the needs of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities through culturally responsive care.
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Doors to Wellbeing (D2W), a Program of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery, is dedicated to peer-led initiatives and training supporting the peer support workforce. Focus areas include peer support workforce development, psychiatric advance directives, supported education and employment and youth peer leadership. D2W serves peer supporters, other mental health clinicians, professionals, and administrators, secondary educators, family and community members, and state and local entities looking to integrate peer support within the behavioral health workforce.
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HHRC is the central hub of easily accessible, no-cost training for health and housing professionals in evidence-based practices that contributes to housing stability, recovery, and an end to homelessness.
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The Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity provides behavioral health practitioners with vital information on supporting the population of people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, two-spirit, and other diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.
Through training, coaching, and technical assistance they are implementing change strategies within mental health and substance use disorder treatment systems to address disparities affecting LGBTQ+ people across all stages of life.
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NCEED is the nation’s first center of excellence dedicated to eating disorders. Founded in 2018 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, our mission is to advance education and training of healthcare providers and to promote public awareness of eating disorders and eating disorder treatment.
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The National Empowerment Center’s purpose is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people with lived experience with mental health issues, trauma, and/or extreme states.
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The purpose of the NFSTAC is to advance positive partnerships between families and providers to promote stronger and more sustainable outcomes for families and their children across the lifespan.
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ORN is your best resource for taking fast action to address the current opioid and stimulant crisis. Education and training provided by ORN is evidence-based and designed to meet the needs of your community or organization, all at no cost to you. ORN incorporates health equity into all its initiatives, ensuring that all programs and resources are accessible and tailored to the community’s needs.
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PENTAC works with the other TA Centers to promote evidence-based care for adults with serious mental illnesses. Their work is infused with peer values and supported by consultants who are subject matter experts. They translate our dedication to developing peers and increasing leadership capacity within the peer workforce through the implementation of projects within the focus areas highlighted below.
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SAMHSA's practitioner training offers tools, training, and technical assistance to practitioners in the fields of mental health and substance use disorders.
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The CAFÉ TA Center is a program of The Family Café, a cross-disability organization that has been connecting individuals with information, training and resources since 1998. The Center is supported by SAMHSA to operate one of its five national technical assistance centers; providing technical assistance, training, and resources that facilitate the restructuring of the mental health system through effective consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illnesses across the country.
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The Tribal Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center offers TTA on mental and substance use disorders, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion using the Strategic Cultural Framework.
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Youth MOVE believes in the power that lived experience and peer-operated services bring to the transformation of mental health services for youth and young adults. The Peer Center supports peer-run organizations, provider organizations, and the mental health service system with successfully creating and implementing recovery-oriented programming based on the needs of individuals with lived experience and the recovery and peer movement.