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KD&A Programs and Other Activities

NCJ Number
193692
Date Published
April 2001
Length
45 pages
Annotation
This report described programs and activities across the United States resulting from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Knowledge Development and Application (KD&A) Program within the three branches of the Division of Practice and Systems Development (DPSD), the clinical interventions and organizational models branch, systems development and integration branch, and treatment and systems improvement branch.
Abstract
The existence of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), under the Mental Health Services Administration, is based on its assurance that Americans with substance abuse problems would get the best publicly funded treatment services possible. This goal would be accomplished by supporting and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of substance abuse treatment services throughout the United States. The CSAT accomplishes this through two programs, one of which was the focus of this report, the Knowledge Development and Application (KD&A) Program. The KD&A was the responsibility of the CSAT’s Division of Practice and Systems Development (DPSD). Knowledge Development activities provide new information for use by the substance abuse treatment field, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of substance abuse treatment. Knowledge Application transported the knowledge for use at the community level. This report describes 32 programs and activities resulting from the KD&A Program. The report begins with an outline of the KD&A Life Cycle that includes: issue definition, knowledge development, knowledge synthesis of exemplary practice, exchange of exemplary practice information, preparing communities for exemplary practice, and adoption of exemplary practice. The Life Cycle was followed by a continuum identifying many of the DPSD activities according to the Life Cycle. The 32 programs and activities described are divided among the three DPSD branches: (1) clinical interventions and organizational models; (2) systems development and integration; and (3) treatment and systems improvement. A description of the program, goals and objectives, and participants are outlined for each program or activity presented.