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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Performance Partnership Grant Support Branch

Technical Reviews

The State Technical Reviews Project is designed to promote compliance with the SAPT Block Grant requirements, as well as to assess State and local program adherence to generally accepted clinical, fiscal and management practices while promoting strengthening of State AOD service delivery systems. The results of the technical reviews conducted under this Project will be used by CSAT as an adjunct to State monitoring and, in particular, to identify problems or exemplary practices. The Project will also assist States in analyzing weaknesses or problems, in responding to systems changes that impact the delivery of substance abuse services, and in planning and implementing solutions, or new approaches.

Each State is reviewed every 3-4 years to determine compliance with selected statutory requirements and to gather information on organizational activities that CSAT has identified as "core" issues, e.g., State fiscal monitoring systems, needs assessment, technology transfer and technical assistance. An additional component of the current technical reviews effort is assistance to States in responding to their most pressing State-identified needs such as linkage between substance abuse treatment and criminal justice or adaptation of systems to managed care and welfare reform. The technical reviews result in "diagnostic technical assistance" that occurs on-site in the form of discussions of potential options for action or changes as well as a series of recommendations for subsequent technical assistance, to be provided under separate contracts.

Government Project Officer for the Technical Review Project: Gayle Saunders