If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, the Mountain Plains and Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Centers have a perfect solution–the 2022 Organizational Process Improvement Initiative (OPII). This 9-month intensive technical assistance and organizational coaching program is designed to provide behavioral health agencies and Recovery Community Organizations (RCOs) within HHS Regions 8 and 9 with practical tools and capacity to design, implement, and sustain change strategies within your agency to improve patient care and recovery support.

Components of the Organizational Process Improvement Initiative:

• Change Facilitator Academy, a virtual, distributed 21-hour learning program designed to develop change leadership skills in teams of three (3) agency Co-Facilitators
• Community of Practice virtual sessions with Change Facilitators from other agencies also implementing the OPII
• Coaching Check-Ins and technical assistance sessions with expert faculty to facilitate the implementation of the five-phased OPII change process

To participate in the Organizational Process Improvement Initiative, your organization must:

• Provide substance use, mental health, behavioral health, and/or recovery support services within the geographic catchment area of the HHS Region 8 Mountain Plains ATTC (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) or the HHS Region 9 Pacific Southwest ATTC (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau).
• Identify up to 3 individuals to serve as Change Team Facilitators and 4-6 additional individuals to serve as members of an agency Change Team.
• Purchase "team" site license of Miro, a virtual whiteboard collaboration application (approximate expense $600).
• Complete agency application and baseline Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment staff survey.
• Commit to participate in 9-month project, including regularly convened agency change team meetings and participation in OPII communities of practice and OPII coaching calls.