SAMHSA's Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center

Training and Technical Assistance

The Tribal TTA Center provides three types of training and technical assistance to American Indian and Alaska Native communities: Broad, Focused, and Intensive.

The training and technical assistance (TTA) offered by the Tribal TTA Center supports AI/AN communities in their self-determination efforts through infrastructure development, capacity building, and program planning and implementation. The Center focuses on programming that supports prevention of mental and substance use disorders, suicide prevention, and the promotion of mental health for Native children, youth, and families.

The Center provides three primary types of TTA, and each type has a different audience.

  • Broad TTA serves all federally recognized tribes, other AI/AN tribes and communities, and rural and urban tribal and Native organizations.
  • Focused TTA is offered for SAMHSA tribal grantees.
  • Intensive TTA is provided for communities that have been selected through a needs assessment process.

TTA Objectives

  • Provide culturally appropriate and sensitive TTA for Native communities across the country that desire to address mental and/or substance use disorders.
  • Work with SAMHSA tribal grantees and other TTA contracts that serve tribal grantees and tribal members.
  • Work collaboratively with other TTA providers and nongovernmental entities to leverage resources and address issues affecting tribal communities, families, and youth.
  • Assist communities in mobilizing, planning, and implementing community-driven and culturally tailored evidence-based practices and interventions.
  • Assist tribes seeking to develop Tribal Action Plans (TAPs) under the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Act of the Tribal Law and Order Act Amendments of 2010 (TLOA).
  • Increase protective factors linked to the healthy and safe development of AI/AN communities, families, and children.

How TTA is Delivered

  • National and regional trainings
  • Gathering of Native Americans/Gathering of Alaska Natives
  • Learning communities
  • Assistance with TAPs
  • Onsite and virtual technical assistance
  • Production and dissemination of resources
  • Intensive community engagement
Last Updated: 10/07/2016