Overview of the Co-Occurring
Disorders Initiative
Presented by:
Mary Anne Myers, Ph.D.
Steven Sullivan, Ph.D.
Co-Occurring Disorders Initiative
• A Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA)
initiative
• Funded by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental
Health Services and Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment
Co-Occurring Disorders Initiative
• A Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA)
initiative
• Funded by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental
Health Services and Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment
Strategic Plan: Vision
To integrate the technical assistance,
product development and Web 2.0 activities
of this contract to advance systems and
service integration and the adoption of
evidence-based and promising practices
that improve the quality of life for persons
who experience mental health and
substance use disorders
Process Overview
Contract Overview
Integrated Approach:
Key Topics
• Systems and Service Integration
• Screening and Assessment of COD
• Promulgation and Adoption of EvidenceBased and Promising Practices
• Workforce Development
• Financial Strategic Development
• COD Data Collection and Use
Planning Activities
CODI Team is involved in a number of
planning activities:
• Working with planning teams to
determine CODI’s product plan
• Leading two strategic planning initiative
at SAMHSA:
• SAMHSA wide COD Strategic Plan
• TA Plan for CSAT’s Criminal Justice
grant portfolio
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Programmatic Interventions
Two more CODI initiatives:
• SAMHSA/HRSA pilot integrating cooccurring disorders and primary
• Hear more today (Monday) at 4:30 pm!
• Consensus panel on pharmacotherapy
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Proactive KTA
Proactive Knowledge Transfer Activities
(KTA) are the heart of CODI
• Building Block Webinar Series
• Learning Communities
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Building Block
Webinar Series
• Healthcare Reform (September 2010)
• Housing and Homelessness (October
2010)
• Violence and Trauma (December 2010)
• Behavioral Health Workforce (in primary
and specialty care setting) (February 2011)
• Data and Outcomes (April 2011)
• Creating Co-Occurring Disorder Services
and Support: Recovery -Oriented Systems
of Care – (June 2011)
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Learning Communities
• COSIG States (existed prior to CODI;
CODI offers support)
• DDCAT/DDCMHT (existed prior to CODI;
CODI offers support)
• Tribal (new)
• COD and Homelessness (new)
• Primary Care (new)
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Learning Communities
• Key strategy for knowledge adoption
• Member driven: Learning Community
belongs to members
• CODI provides support to LC members:
• Peer to Peer exchanges
• Other Experts available
• Topics and forms of support tailored to member
goals and needs
Learning Community
Learning Community events:
• Join us for lively discussion at Tuesday and
Wednesday’s LC sessions!
• CODI and LC facilitators will engage
members on LC events, such as:
• Structure: what’s working, what’s needed
• Goals and Topics for upcoming year
• Forums: conference calls, webinars, regional
trainings, peer to peer visits/mentoring
• Identifying sub-groups with special interests
Evaluation Activities
CODI Evaluation Activities
Steven T. Sullivan, Cloudburst
Overview
• Introduction
• Aims of the evaluation
• Data collection supporting the evaluation
• Instruments and tools
• Planned analysis
Introduction
• Steven Sullivan, Ph.D., Senior Director at
Cloudburst Consulting Group, Inc.
• Cloudburst is a subcontractor to Westat,
serving as the evaluation lead for the CODI
contract.
• We contributed to the evaluation and
instrument design, and are coordinating
data collection for the evaluation, to ensure
completeness and quality of data.
Aims of the Evaluation
• We are evaluating the provision of
technical assistance, training, and other
knowledge transfer activities (KTA), not
grantee programs.
• Data collection and analysis support quality
improvement in our KTA and are geared
towards determining if the innovative
approach to KTA exemplified in CODI has
significant benefits.
Data Collection Supporting the
Evaluation: Instruments and Tools
• Formative Development Instruments –
Products and Web
• Instrument is paper-based and
electronic
• In-person intercepts and remote testing
Data Collection Supporting the
Evaluation: Instruments and Tools
• Customer Satisfaction Survey –
Events/Products
• CODI Events are:
• CODI-sponsored grantee meetings
• CODI remote technical assistance
• CODI in-person conference presentations or
workshops
• Instrument is paper-based and electronic
• Site Satisfaction Metrics – Web
Data Collection Supporting the
Evaluation: Instruments and Tools
• Impact Survey – Learning Community
Events
 Have we helped participants achieve their
goals?
 Survey and Focus Groups, retrospective
self-report at 6 months (survey) plus 7-9
months (focus groups)
 Survey is electronic
Planned Analysis
• Descriptive statistics on satisfaction and
impact
• We will review satisfaction across content
areas, presenters, products to continually
improve our offerings
Stay Connected
• Visit our interim website at
http://coce.samhsa.gov
 In the near future this website will be
revised and will feature key CODI
resources, events, trainings and
learning tools.
• Join the CODI List Serve
 Receive event announcements, product
debuts, and much more.
 Send an email to contact@codimail.org,
with “Subscribe” in the subject line.