Intensive Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) 

Cohort 10

Benefits of Participation

What is the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center?

The Tribal Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center is a project of the Substance Abuse 

and Mental Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services. The Tribal TTA Center team will 

provide comprehensive Broad, Focused, and 

Intensive TTA to federally recognized tribes and 

other American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN)

communities seeking to address and prevent 

mental and substance use disorders and suicide 

and to promote mental health.

The Tribal TTA Center team will provide Intensive 

TTA to the selected Cohort 10 AI/AN communities 

to build community capacity to plan, implement, 

and sustain culturally relevant, evidence-based,

holistic preventive efforts. To date, the Tribal TTA 

Center’s Intensive TTA has engaged 56 AI/AN 

communities through Cohorts 1 through 9 and is 

currently engaging 5 more AI/AN communities as 

part of Cohort 10, for a total of 61 communities to 

be served through March 2024.

How will my community benefit? 

Communities gain short- and long-term benefits from their participation in Intensive TTA to 

develop and implement sustainable prevention plans. These benefits include increased 

capacity, skills, and knowledge for community-wide prevention of mental and substance use 

disorders and suicide and the promotion of mental health. The following sections provide 

specific examples of short-term benefits, long-term benefits, and community contributions.

Tribal TTA Center’s Philosophy

AI/AN communities have the 

knowledge, capacity, and strength to 

address and prevent mental and 

substance use disorders and suicide 

and to promote mental health.

Their cultural beliefs and practices 

provide a foundation for taking 

action, solving problems, and 

promoting lasting wellness.

The Tribal TTA Center’s Intensive TTA

provides tools and resources to help 

communities come together to do 

this work.
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Short-term benefits

Participating communities receive the following short-term benefits:

• Individualized TTA focused on prevention;

• Coordination support to form an oversight panel and TTA to develop and implement a

Community Prevention Plan or Community Sustainability Plan (CPP/CSP);

• Onsite and virtual trainings; Intensive TTA coordinator and community lead contact will

work together to schedule all onsite and virtual training to include:

o Introductory site visit,

o Community Readiness Assessment training,

o Gathering of Native Americans or Gathering of Alaska Natives event,

o Technical assistance site visit, and

o Sustainability site visit.

• TTA on evidence-, practice-, and culture-based interventions;

• TTA on topics including but not limited to:

o Suicide prevention,

o Mental and substance use disorder prevention,

o Mental health promotion,

o Cultural resilience and historical trauma,

o Community partnership and coalition building,

o Outreach messaging,

o Youth and elder engagement,

o Digital storytelling,

o Postvention,

o Crisis response,

o Cultural considerations in gatekeeper training,

o Youth leadership, and

o Community-based evaluation.

• Community funds (totaling up to $25,000) to support the implementation of the

CPP/CSP and for the hiring of a community-based coordinator or additional consultants

to provide evidence-based training and support (totaling up to $10,000) to implement

the sustainability plan interventions.

Long-term benefits

The Tribal TTA Center provides capacity-building services to communities that result in the

following long-term benefits:

• Increased awareness of how mental and substance use disorders and suicide affect the

community, and how to promote mental health effectively;
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• The identification of cultural strengths and resilience factors that protect AI/AN

children, youth, and families;

• The development of a prevention framework based on AI/AN culture, values, and

traditions;

• Increased collaboration among community agencies;

• Sustained prevention efforts beyond the duration of the project; and

• Increased capacity to submit competitive grant applications to support ongoing

prevention efforts.

Community contributions

Participating communities are asked to make the following contributions to the project:

• Identify and form a team, including a lead contact, co-lead contact, lead agency, and an

oversight panel;

• Have leadership commit to the Tribal TTA Center’s Intensive TTA goals;

• Provide in-kind resources (e.g., meeting space, staff time, event promotion);

• Participate in the Intensive TTA project evaluation;

• Form a partnership between the Tribal TTA Center’s Intensive TTA support and existing

community prevention efforts; and

• Collaborate with the Tribal TTA Center’s Intensive TTA staff to plan and conduct onsite

and virtual community trainings and events.

More information

For more information about the Tribal TTA Center’s Intensive TTA, please contact TTA Task Lead 

Gloria Guillory at gguillory@tribaltechllc.com or (202) 809-7221.