This Quick Guide for Administrators is based on TIP 52, "Clinical Supervision and Professional Development of the Substance Abuse Counselor." It offers tips on developing a program for clinical supervision and presents issues to consider, including cultural competence, supervisor ethics and values, etc.

This 2013 Quick Guide offers tips for clinical supervisors in the substance use disorder treatment field. It covers functions of a clinical supervisor, and highlights stages of professional development for counselors and clinical supervisors.

Updates on federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration are available through "Really Simple Syndication" (RSS) feeds and a subscription for email updates. Topics include: Grants, Grants Training Materials, and SAMHSA's blog.  Using an RSS reader, you can view data feeds from various websites including headlines, summaries, links to full stories, and campaign & program information.

Prevention professionals use SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) as a comprehensive guide to plan, implement, and evaluate prevention practices and programs.

This link takes you to SAMHSA's publication store, filtered for Treatment Improvement Protocols. The store can be filtered for many other types of resources.

This 2013 toolkit discusses the prevalence of mental illness and substance use disorders in the United States. It describes behavioral health needs and service use, and offers guidance for determining the appropriate mix of behavioral health benefits, services, and providers.

This focus group guide, developed for Massachusetts Opioid Abuse Prevention Collaborative, contains an overview of the structure of a focus group; tips for facilitators; and sample questions for various audiences such as active users, families of users, treatment providers, youth/teens, police/first responders, the recovery community, and the emergency department staff.

Author: Massachusetts Technical Assistance Partnership for Prevention

Publisher: Center for Strategic Prevention Support

Sankofa Institute is an African American woman-led 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization, guided by Dr. Thulani DeMarsay, a person in long-term recovery. We are deeply committed to delivering high-quality, forward thinking, and transformative learning experiences and empowering the recovery community in Massachusetts and nationwide, with a particular focus on communities of color.

This guide provides guidance for developing a logic model specific to the SAPC grant, a logic model examples, as well as a logic model template.

Author: Center for Strategic Prevention Support

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The School Health Index (SHI) Self-Assessment and Planning Guide is an online self-evaluation and planning tool for schools. The SHI is built on CDC’s research-based guidelines for school health programs that identify the policies and practices most likely to be effective in reducing youth health risk behaviors. The SHI is easy to use and is completely confidential.

Author: Publisher: CDC