National Consumer and Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Centers (CONSTACs)
Recognizing the value of those with lived experience as a component of the treatment system, these programs provide training and technical assistance on the integration of peers in the workforce, evidence-based and promising peer support practices, and development of peer training programs, among other activities. This program is comprised of five centers:
- Focus Areas and Key Projects: peer support workforce development, psychiatric advance directives, supported education and supported employment, youth leadership
- Contacts: Amey Dettmer, Program Manager, [email protected]; Matthew Federici, Program Director, [email protected]
The CAFÉ Technical Assistance Center (CAFÉ TAC)
- Focus Areas and Key Projects: integrated care providers, family engagement and recovery, employment, cross-disability community, economic self-sufficiency
- Contact: Jeremy Countryman, [email protected]
- Focus Areas and Key Projects: crisis response services, peer-run warm lines and peer-run crisis respite programs, leadership development and youth leadership, organizational development, peer participation
- Contacts: Oryx Cohen, TAC Director, [email protected]; Daniel Fisher, CEO, [email protected]
Peer Experience National Technical Assistance Center (PENTAC) - (Peer Support Coalition of Florida)
- Focus Areas and Key Projects: supported education and supported employment, integration of peers in diverse settings, youth leadership skills, peer entrepreneurship
- Contacts: Cheryl Molyneaux, Executive Director, [email protected]; Teresa Mitchem, Program Director, [email protected]
Youth Move National Peer Center
- Focus Areas and Key Projects: youth leadership, youth engagement, implementation and integration of youth peer support, and youth-run program development
- Contact: Kristin Thorp [email protected]
Program Type: Grant
Organization: Multiple Organizations (listed above)
SAMHSA POC: [email protected]