Providing training and technical Moving mountains Providing training and technical assistance to providers of assistance to providers of care care for HIV, substance use disorders and mental illness in to improve HIV, for HIV, substance use disorders and mental health in substance use, and South Africa mental health care

Our strategic partnership: Our ATTC represents a strategic partnership between the University of , one of the oldest and most highly regarded Universities in South Africa, and the New England ATTC at Brown University, one of the longest standing ATTCs.

Our goal: To work collaboratively within the South African HIV- Substance Use/ Mental Health care provider and policy-maker network to share our specialized offering of brief interventions, which include online and in-person motivational interviewing and mental health training. The South Africa - HIV ATTC

We work closely with National and provincial government and is located with the Division of Addictions at the NGO’s to develop collaborative partnerships with the goal of ’s Department of Psychiatry and identifying need and providing evidence-based technical Mental Health assistance for partners engaged in treatment, criminal justice, faith, medical, education, and recovery communities. Contact information:

Popular training offerings: South Africa HIV ATTC Room 10, Education Centre, Valkenberg , Observatory Road, Observatory, • Motivational interviewing , 7925

• Screening and Brief Interventions • Mental Health for Community Health Workers • HIV/AIDS +27 21 440 3287 (Phone) [email protected] (email) Most training topics can be customized to fit identified needs. Visit our website for more information about out our team and the services we provide. www.attcnetwork.org/southafrica Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network Funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

The South Africa – HIV Addiction Current South Africa - HIV ATTC •

Technology Transfer Centre Programming: is part of a network comprised of 10 Domestic Regional Centres, 6 International HIV Centres (funded by PEPFAR) and a • Supports the workforce providing Network Coordinating Office. Together the Network serves the services to individuals with or at risk 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. of HIV, alcohol and other drug Virgin Islands, and several Pacific Islands. International HIV problems, and mental illness; ATTCs serve South Africda, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and Ukraine. • Incorporates research-based HIV, substance use, and mental health The goals of the ATTC network are to: content into existing educational programming; • Accelerate the adoption and implementation of appropriate evidence-based treatment for HIV, substance • Uses innovative technologies to use disorders, and mental illness develop and disseminate research- • Heighten the knowledge and skills of lay and professional based information; individuals involved in the delivery of care for HIV, substance use disorders, and mental illness • Provides technical assistance in the • Foster provincial and national partnerships amongst adoption and implementation of culturally diverse practitioners, researchers, policy- exemplary treatment practices and makers, funders and experts. strategies, in a variety of settings;

Unifying , Education and Services to Transform Lives Adapting the best available evidence to meet the needs of South Africa.

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[email protected] • Delivers free evidence-based online training such as motivational interviewing

• Trains providers how to deliver locally appropriate brief interventions.