Information For Addiction Educators : NFATTC

State Specific Resources:

Alaska
Hawaii-Pacific
Idaho
Oregon
Washington

Becoming An Addiction Counselor Resource Page

Career and Job Information for Students

Guidelines for Supervised Field Experiences

Downloadable guide

Addiction Educators Consortia

Within the NFATTC region there are several active consortia of addiction studies educators—click below for member rosters, project information, meeting announcements and minutes…and more:

IDEAS (Idaho Educators in Addiction Studies)
OCASE (Oregon Coalition of Addiction Studies Educators)
NCCDE (Northwest Coalition of Chemical Dependency Educators)

International Coalition of Addiction Studies Education

(INCASE) is a professional association of individuals, programs, and students specializing in addiction studies. INCASE sponsors an annual educator’s conference, an educator’s listserv and produces the “Journal of Teaching Addictions” http://www.incase.org/

Coming Soon! Addiction Counseling Competencies: Educator’s Toolkit

NFATTC and regional addiction educators are developing a series of ideas for student activities based on the TAP 21 addiction counselor competencies. You will be able to download and use these ideas in your own programs. To be alerted when the toolkit is posted send an email to Wendy Hausotter (hausotte@ohsu.edu) and put Educator’s Toolkit in the subject line of the email.

Teaching Tools and Curriculum Downloads

Newsletter on ways to improve teaching

Project Mainstream

Free materials, syllabi, subscription

Films Depicting Addiction

NIH Curriculum Downloads

The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology Through the Study of Addiction

NIDA Slide Teaching Packets

Slide teaching packets on The Neurobiology of Addiction; the Brain and Cocaine, Opiates, Marijuana; Neuorbiology of Ecstacy; Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction—What Science Says.