CENTER FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION (CSAP) - CENTERS FOR THE APPLICATION OF PREVENTION TECHNOLOGIES (CAPT)

When SAMHSA's CSAP needed a partner to manage its national portfolio of training/technical (T/TA) in collaboration with the CAPT, SAMHSA/CSAP, CRP was the vendor of choice. CRP services included:

  • Coordinating an array of T/TA deliveries through several subcontractors

  • Planning and managing a broad spectrum of T/TA workshops and conferences

  • Managing a network of expert T/TA consultants

  • Directing the Agency's Service to Science Initiative, which provided evaluation-capacity building T/TA to prevention interventions and programs

SAMHSA/CSAP relied on CRP to manage its mini-subcontract program for "building the field" of evidence-based prevention, resulting in an investment of over $3,750,000 in mini-subcontract awards over a five-year period. CRP also managed SAMHSA/CSAP's pilot Prevention and Wellness Initiative and worked with the CAPT in convening and reporting a series of T/TA listening sessions in geographically dispersed sites across the country.

 

POLICY ACADEMIES ON CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS

CRP planned and managed four T/TA policy academies on co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders for SAMHSA, which enabled the Agency to effect systems change for transforming how co-occurring services are delivered. We coordinated pre-academy planning meetings, designed and developed strategic action templates used to guide strategic action planning sessions, facilitated the T/TA sessions, coordinated the delivery of on-site T/TA at each academy, and led state and tribal teams in constructing an estimated 46 strategic action plans for enhancing co-occurring systems of care.

 

SAMHSA'S RETURNING VETERANS INITIATIVE

SAMHSA selected CRP to provide an array of T/TA services in support of its Returning Veterans Initiative, the predecessor to the Agency's Strategic Initiative on Returning Veterans and Military Families. CRP managed the nation's inaugural conference addressing the imminent and special behavioral health needs of returning veterans and their families. CRP facilitated the initial inter-agency planning committee meeting and prepared a report, which informed the subsequent planning and implementation of the national conference. CRP also managed SAMHSA's first policy academy on returning veterans and their families, which was preceded by planning visits to each state.