The COSSUP TTA Program supports communities by:
- Facilitating peer-to-peer learning opportunities in which communities can learn from experienced programs through virtual consultations and on-site visits.
- Providing speakers for conferences and workshops or skilled subject-matter experts for training events to educate stakeholders and build capacity.
- Facilitating strategic and cross-system planning to identify community resources, establish priorities, and develop a road map to achieving goals.
- Identifying materials such as policies and procedures, guidelines, and data sharing agreements that support program activities.
- Supporting PDMPs by increasing PDMP efficiencies and facilitating coordination between PDMPs and state and national stakeholders.
Meet the COSSUP TTA providers
The following agencies are BJA’s current COSSUP training and technical assistance (TTA) providers. To learn more about the COSSUP TTA Program, read the COSSUP TTA Program Overview briefing sheet. Explore these overviews to learn about the wealth of expertise offered by the COSSUP TTA Collaborative members.
Altarum
Altarum works with organizations and systems as they implement best practices and promising approaches related to peer recovery support services. Altarum supports federal, state, and local governments, as well as national and community-based organizations, to build a system of care that focuses on recovery, active involvement of consumers and their families, and comprehensive services to best meet individual needs and to strengthen and improve the health of communities.
Altarum WebsiteCENTER FOR HEALTH AND JUSTICE AT TASC
Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities’ (TASC) Center for Health and Justice (CHJ) offers solutions to improve community health, reduce crime, and enhance collaboration between justice and health systems. CHJ draws on evidence-based research and direct service experience from TASC, Inc., which manages substance use and mental health service delivery for those involved in justice, child welfare, and public systems. Recognizing that first responders are on the front line of the opioid crisis, CHJ assists them and their community partners in developing deflection and pre-arrest diversion pathways to treatment and community-based services for individuals with substance use, mental health, and co-occurring disorders. CHJ offers online resources and in-person training and technical assistance engagements customized to the needs of specific jurisdictions with the goals of connecting and maximizing the treatment resources of the community to improve public health and safety.
Center for Health and Justice at TASC WebsiteINSTITUTE FOR INTERGOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH
The Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) serves as the connecting point for COSSUP training and technical assistance (TTA) efforts and collaborates with Bureau of Justice Assistance leadership and fellow TTA providers to work directly with COSSUP site-based grantees. IIR’s role includes publication production and design; planning, coordination, and delivery of national-level trainings and working group meetings; COSSUP Resource Center website development and maintenance; provision of subject-matter expertise; coordination of distance-learning opportunities and resource dissemination; and coordination of other complementary activities.
Institute for Intergovernmental Research WebsiteNational Criminal Justice Training Center, Fox Valley Technical College
The National Criminal Justice Training Center (NCJTC) of Fox Valley Technical College equips criminal justice professionals and service providers with training and technical assistance to address specific community safety and wellness challenges. NCJTC facilitates tribal justice systems in a multidisciplinary approach to identify, respond to, treat, and support those impacted by illicit substance use and misuse and substance use disorders. The cultural and traditional practices of each unique tribal community provide the foundation to implement the tools and resources to effect lasting and meaningful change in the communities they serve.
National Criminal Justice Training Center (NCJTC) of Fox Valley Technical College WebsitePrescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Center
The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Center (PDMP TTAC) provides a comprehensive array of services, support, resources, and strategies to PDMPs, Bureau of Justice Assistance grant recipients, federal partners, and other stakeholders to further the efforts and effectiveness of PDMPs in combating the misuse and diversion of prescription drugs. PDMP TTAC’s focus is to improve consistency and alignment among PDMPs, facilitate coordination between PDMPs and state and national stakeholders, increase PDMP efficiencies, measure performance and effectiveness, and promote best practices.
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Center WebsiteRTI International
RTI International (RTI) provides individualized training and technical assistance (TTA) to jurisdictions to effectively address needs of pretrial, prosecution, defense counsel, and court actors in serving individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and co-occurring mental health disorders during the pretrial and court adjudication processes. RTI also helps communities divert individuals with SUDs into community-based treatment. Through its substantive, methodological, and technical expertise, RTI and its partners create thorough, user-friendly, practitioner-focused toolkits and resources to support best and equitable practices in the implementation of programming at the front end of the justice system.
RTI’s TTA team provides direct support to two types of grantees: state-focused programs and sites whose programs support children, youth, and families impacted by SUD as well as prevention work with youth and families. RTI’s state-based and prevention TTA works to make communities safer by promoting evidence-based practices to respond to illicit substance use and misuse across all state and local government levels. RTI’s approach to TTA fosters peer-to-peer learning and cross-site coordination to enable discussions of lessons learned, facilitate program improvements, promote evidence-based program proliferation, and provide tailored TTA to states as they support the unique needs of their local jurisdictions.
RTI International WebsiteAbt Global
Abt Global (Abt) supports requests regarding data collection, management, analysis, visualization, information sharing, and evaluation. Abt provides training and technical assistance through hosting webinars, developing podcasts and tipsheets, holding office hours, one-to-one coaching, and responding to requests related to research and evaluation for grantees and communities/individuals affected by substance use.
Abt Global WebsiteRulo Strategies LLC
Rulo Strategies serves as the technical assistance provider for jails, prisons, reentry, and community supervision agencies. Rulo Strategies supports jurisdictions interested in improving their response to substance use and behavioral health issues; increasing stakeholder understanding of evidence-based and promising practices; supporting the implementation of medication-assisted treatment in the jail, prison, and community supervision settings; supporting the implementation of the withdrawal management guidelines; facilitating peer-to-peer learning opportunities; and providing speakers for conferences and workshops or skilled subject-matter experts for training events to educate stakeholders and build capacity.
Rulo Strategies Website
