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NTS staff's training and technical assistance expertise's have been applied to
contracts and grants held with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
(CSAT), National Center on Alcohol and Substance Abuse (CASA), Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, Office of National Drug Control and Policy and the
National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Treatment Outcomes Performance Pilot Studies
II (TOPPS)
In
September 1998 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
(CSAT) selected 19 States to participate in their
Treatment Outcome and Performance Pilot Studies Enhancement (TOPPS II) program.
The TOPPS II initiative creates a partnership between the
Federal government and the States to support the development of
standardized methods for measuring the performance and effectiveness of substance abuse
treatment services. Among other purposes, States will utilize the
study results to demonstrate the relative effectiveness of substance
abuse treatment services within their States. Further, the study will
test the validity of outcome and performance monitoring system
data elements in important demographic subgroups and those who receive treatment
in different treatment modalities. Ultimately, the results of these
studies will enhance each State's OMS and/or current MIS
to provide ongoing information for client tracking and outcome monitoring, to assess
clients' functional status over time and to improve the overall
quality of substance abuse treatment services provided to clients. National Training
Services, Master Trainers, Thomas H. Coyne MSW., Ron Jackson MSW.
and Kathy Meyers Ph.D., designed, developed and devilered the
contemporary training and competency evaluation procedures currently in
use throughout ten (10) of the 19 participating states in the country.
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Drug Evaluation
Network System (DENS)
DENS is a national,
electronic, treatment information system being implemented with funds from
the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). The goal
of the project is to provide comprehensive and current clinical and
administrative information on patients entering into the nation's
substance abuse treatment in a national sample of 200 public and private,
methadone, residential, and outpatient treatment programs. The ASI is the
basis of the information system. Thomas H. Coyne and researchers from the
Treatment Research Institute collaborated on the development of an easy to
use computer software system that permits rapid and accurate collection of
the ASI data as well as clinically useful software for the providers and
local administrators. In addition Mr. Coyne designed and delivered the
training for this nationwide project as well as developing the quality
assurance protocols used to maintain the coding and rating consistency of
all interviewers around the country administering the ASI.
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National Center for Alcohol and
Substance Abuse's Welfare to Work Initiative
Thomas H. Coyne designed
and delivered a comprehensive training on various research protocols and
the use of multiple assessment instruments including the ASI and for the
Local Evaluation Coordinators of the National Center on Substance Abuse
(CASA) national Welfare To Work Initiative. This national initiative in 11
sites is designed to meet the needs of women who are welfare recipients
and abuse addictive substances. The main goal of the initiative--CASAWORKS
for Families--is to assist welfare recipients to achieve stable employment
and self-sufficiency by overcoming substance abuse and other barriers to
work.
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Urban Institute's
Criminal Justice Initiative: Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle (BTC) has been established to
provide: (1) early intervention and pretrial supervision for
non-violent offenders with drug or alcohol programs; (2) a continuum
of treatment options with assessment procedures for making referrals appropriate to
the needs of the offender (individualized assessment); and (3)
regular judicial monitoring linking sanctions and treatment response. The
reform is designed to reduce substance abuse and criminal
activity and improve the health and social functioning of drug-involved offenders
by combining drug treatment with criminal justice sanctions and incentives.
National Training Services, Master Trainers, Thomas H. Coyne MSW.,
Ron Jackson MSW. and Kathy Meyers Ph.D., designed, developed and
devilered the contemporary training and competency evaluation procedures currently in use throughout this
project.
In summary, while
researchers at the Treatment Research Institute invented the ASI and other
evaluation instruments, Thomas H. Coyne MSW, has designed, developed and
delivered the contemporary training and application procedures currently
in use throughout the country. In addition, Thomas is familiar not just
with the training of these instruments but also the day-to-day application
of the instruments in clinical and administrative decision-making in
virtually all environments.
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Urban Institute's
Criminal Justice Initiative: Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle (BTC) has been established to
provide: (1) early intervention and pretrial supervision for
non-violent offenders with drug or alcohol programs; (2) a continuum
of treatment options with assessment procedures for making referrals appropriate to
the needs of the offender (individualized assessment); and (3)
regular judicial monitoring linking sanctions and treatment response. The
reform is designed to reduce substance abuse and criminal
activity and improve the health and social functioning of drug-involved offenders
by combining drug treatment with criminal justice sanctions and incentives.
National Training Services, Master Trainers, Thomas H. Coyne MSW.,
Ron Jackson MSW. and Kathy Meyers Ph.D., designed, developed and
devilered the contemporary training and competency evaluation procedures currently in use throughout this
project.
In summary, while
researchers at the Treatment Research Institute invented the ASI and other
evaluation instruments, Thomas H. Coyne MSW, has designed, developed and
delivered the contemporary training and application procedures currently
in use throughout the country. In addition, Thomas is familiar not just
with the training of these instruments but also the day-to-day application
of the instruments in clinical and administrative decision-making in
virtually all environments.
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