SAMHSA’s CAPT Announces Service to Science Awards to Build Capacity for Prevention Evaluation
Posted: February 28, 2012On behalf of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) is pleased to announce the award of 22 subcontracts to community-...
CAPT Opens New Office in Chicago
Posted: January 25, 2012On January 17, SAMHSA’s CAPT opened the doors to a new office in Chicago, Illinois. The office will house the CAPT’s Central Resource Team, supported by satellite offices across the CAPT’s central service area.
CAPT T/TA Specialist Earns IC&RC President Leadership Award
Posted: November 21, 2011Julie Stevens, a long-time training and technical assistance (T/TA) specialist with the CAPT’s Southwest Resource Team, was recently awarded the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC)’s...
What is Quality Training and Technical Assistance?
Posted: November 8, 2011SAMHSA’S CAPT is charged with providing capacity-building training and technical assistance (T/TA) to help States, Tribes, and Jurisdictions better prevent substance abuse and related behavioral health issues in...
CAPT Staff Refine Training Approach at Workshop on Dialogue Education™
Posted: November 7, 2011Selected staff from SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) met last month to participate in a unique training experience designed to answer the question, "How do you effectively educate...
Action Summit Addresses Suicide in Tribal Communities
Posted: September 17, 2011August 1-4 marked the first Action Summit for Suicide Prevention, an unprecedented collaboration among Federal agencies to address suicide emergent suicide and substance abuse prevention issues in Indian...
Annual Native American Service to Science Academy Meets in DC
Posted: September 5, 2011Every year SAMHSA’s Collaborative for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) and Native American Center for Excellence (NACE) collaborate to offer the Native American Service to Science (STS) Academy to...
SAMHSA Teams Up with Air Force Reserve Command on Prevention Training
Posted: September 1, 2011In support of SAMHSA’s Strategic Initiative to improve the behavioral health of the nation’s military families, SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) recently delivered a Substance...
Service to Science Strengthens Evaluation Capacity of Pacific Programs
Posted: July 13, 2011Across the U.S. Pacific Jurisdictions, local prevention leaders develop innovative and culturally appropriate programs and practices to reduce substance abuse and enhance social and emotional health in their...
SAMHSA's CAPT Explores How States and Jurisdictions Encourage Use of Community-level Epidemiological Data to Inform Decision-making
Posted: April 15, 2011In March, staff from SAMHSA's CAPT collected examples of how States and Jurisdictions have promoted the use of local epidemiological data to drive sub-recipient community decision-making about what prevention...
