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Practice Improvement Colloaboratives

Practice Improvement Collaboaratives	The Practice Improvement Collaboratives (PIC) program was initiated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) in 1999 to support and promote effective and efficient community-based treatment.

The Arizona Practice Improvement Collaboarative	The Arizona Practice Improvement Collaborative (PIC) is a statewide collaborative involving key state agencies, local treatment providers, and researchers from all three of the state's institutes of higher education, and consumer and advocacy groups. The lead agency of this PIC is the Community Rehabilitation Division (CRD) of the University of Arizona's School of Public Administration and Policy. The mission of the Arizona PIC is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery support by promoting greater collaboration among substance abuse treatment providers, academic researchers, payors, consumers, policymakers, and other stakeholders.

The Chicago Practice Improvement Collaborative	The Chicago Practice Improvement Collaborative (CPIC) is developing and helping sustain lasting partnerships among Chicago-area researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and consumers for the purposes of improving clinical outcomes in alcohol and substance abuse treatment; adopting evidence-based practices; exchanging knowledge about practice-relevant research and technologies; and influencing policies that affect substance-related research and practices. The CPIC is working with stakeholders to implement targeted, evidence-based, substance abuse treatment practices and to evaluate implementation strategies.

The Iowa Practice Improvement Collaborative	The Iowa Practice Improvement Collaborative is one of eleven centers nationwide devoted to bridging the gap between research and practice in the field of substance abuse. The Iowa PIC is a partnership of substance abuse providers, researchers, policy makers, and consumers.

Los Angeles Practice Improvement Collaborative	The Los Angeles Practice Improvement Collaborative (LAPIC) is a network of community substance abuse treatment providers and researchers committed to improving the quality of interaction and exchange between service providers, policymakers, researchers, and members of the recovery community in the substance abuse field. The goal of the LAPIC is to improve service coordination and delivery for substance-involved individuals by working with a variety of stakeholders to implement targeted, evidence-based substance abuse treatment practices and to evaluate different implementation strategies.

North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative	The goal of the North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative (PIC) is to improve the quality and effectiveness of substance abuse service delivery in North Carolina through the adoption of evidence-based practices. The PIC will oversee the development and implementation of a statewide clinically based practice improvement agenda; expand and strengthen the integration of a statewide network of community-based substance abuse providers, researchers, educators, policymakers, advocates, and consumers; conduct knowledge adoption studies, based on questions posed by treatment providers, which will provide information to improve substance abuse service delivery in North Carolina; and conduct formative evaluations for each of the regional consortia to improve the investigation and implementation of promising research-based practices.

Pennsylvania Practice Improvement Collaborative	The Pennsylvania Practice Improvement Collaborative (PIC), administered by the Institute for Research, Education, and Training in Addictions (IRETA), seeks to ensure that research findings are effectively translated into practice. This statewide PIC will work with policymakers, providers, researchers, consumers, funders, persons representing culturally specific groups, and community service programs to promote the adoption of evidence-based practices. The Pennsylvania PIC will conduct programs of knowledge exchange and technology transfer, promote the adoption of evidence-based treatment interventions in a manner that is culturally competent, and conduct studies on effective implementation methods.

San Francisco Practice Improvement Collaborative	The San Francisco Practice Improvement Collaborative (PIC) was initiated by the county health department in collaboration with university-based researchers and publicly funded substance abuse treatment providers. The ultimate goal of this PIC is to ensure the capability of community-based treatment organizations to adopt best practices in clinical care and service delivery. An underlying, if not the primary, theme of the San Francisco PIC is that all partners have a crucial role in defining and carrying out community-based knowledge adoption activities.

West Georgia Practice Improvement Collaborative	The West Central Georgia Practice Improvement Collaborative (WCGPIC) is designed to contribute to the prevention and treatment practice improvement agenda in both rural and urban communities in West Central Georgia. The activities of this Practice Improvement Collaborative (PIC) are expected to result in the development of culturally competent models for the adoption of collaborative prevention and treatment interventions for African Americans and other underserved populations that could be replicated in other areas. The PIC was formed to provide a mechanism to improve the quality of substance abuse treatment and clinical preventive services by increasing interaction and knowledge exchange among key stakeholders, including the research community, community-based service providers and organizations, and policymakers.

Other Sites

Addiction Technology Transfer Center "Addiction Science Made Easy"	The ATTC is now highlighting new research in the field of alcoholism. Easy-to-read articles ranging in topic from treatment modalities for alcoholism to new medications will be highlighted here each month. The goal of this project is to deliver articles which are less technical than scientific abstracts while maintaining the accuracy and message of original scientific reports. The research reports are from the scientific journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, the official journal of the national Research Society on Alcoholism.

Butler Center for Research at Hazelton	Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and understanding of addiction recovery through research, collaboration, and communication. Includes research updates, publications and on-line presentations

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Resources	CSAT home page with links to program resources, data resources, SAMHSA/CSAT Web Resources, and SAMSHA publications.

CSAP's PrevTech	CSAP's Prevention Technology Platform promotes scientific methods and programs for substance abuse prevention for use within communities and State prevention systems.

Clinical Trials.gov	The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.

Databases by Subject	A collection of Internet databases on the topics of Alcohol and/or Substance Abuse and/or Mental Health; Criminal and/or Juvenile Justice; Multi-disciplinary issues; Prevention & Training; and Statistics. (Collection initally developed by the Suncoast Practice Research Collaborative)

Drug Abuse and Addiction Research 25 Years of Discovery to Advance the Health of the Public	Sixth Triennial Report to Congress on drug use and drug use research by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Latest Research	The latest information on model programs, strategies, and studies. Includes Data Sets and Statistics. The National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI).

Paths to Recovery	A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative designed to improve the care processes that facilitate patient access to and early engagement in substance abuse treatment.

Prevention Knowledge Base	Under a contract from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Tanglewood Research has developed the Prevention Knowledge Base The Knowledge Base now contains 1,000 summaries of prevention research articles. Summaries have been written in non-scientific language specifically to be useful to practitioners. This makes the Prevention Knowledge Base the single largest source of easy to read research information about prevention available anywhere.

Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A research-Based Guide	A guide identifying a variety of effective, researched based approaches to drug addiction treatment and a set of overarching principles that characterize the most effective drug abuse and addiction treatments and their implementation. Prepared by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Research Briefs	Abstracts on alcohol and substance abuse research. The National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI).

The Society for Prevention Research	The Society for Prevention Research is a professional organization focused upon the advancement of science-based prevention programs and policies through empirical research.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive	The goal of the archive is to provide ready access to substance abuse and mental health research data, thereby increasing the use of the data in understanding and assessing substance abuse and mental health problems and the impact of related treatment systems.

The Virtual Clearinghouse on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs	The Virtual Clearinghouse on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs is a collaborative effort of a number of organizations having an interest in disseminating high quality information about the nature, extent and consequences of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. The scope of this information encompasses prevention, treatment, research, enforcement, and development of policy.

World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers	WWWRSW is a web based, database of links to professional resources.The majority of these links are to the “grey literature” - full text scientific, technical and policy reports. In addition, WWWRSW contains links to 1977 scholarly journals and newsletters, of which, 96 are to sites that provide full text articles. A wide range of links to relevant government agencies, educational institutions and professional organizations are also included.

A joint project of the
Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAP)
and
The New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS)

A project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
— A Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) funded Initiative —

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment