About Us
The Center for Excellence on Addiction (the Center) at JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., is a portfolio of projects that provides support—via expert consultation and training and technical assistance (T/TA) — to communities, practitioners, policymakers, and other partners as they work to address addiction effectively and to reduce alcohol and other drug misuse and related consequences in New Hampshire.
Funding to support the Center’s core functions, including providing technical assistance and promoting best practices, is generously provided by the NH Charitable Foundation.
Who We Are
Our goal is to help organizations better achieve their missions through sustainable change.
The Center is committed to diversity of thought, identity, and experience within both its team members and the communities we serve. The Center and JSI have made commitments toward increasing diversity and equity.
What We Do
Our services may include one-on-one and intensive technical assistance, targeted consultation, mentoring, and peer learning opportunities.
We work closely with organizations to identify their strengths, assess needs, and develop cost-effective strategies to enhance their organizational infrastructure, along with staff skills and expertise.
We offer reduced rates for our services which are intended to support organizations that lack resources to engage in technical assistance opportunities.
This reflects JSI’s mission to improve the health of underserved people and communities and provide a place where people of passion and commitment can pursue this cause.
Our History
The Center for Excellence on Addiction at JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. was originally established in 2009 as the NH Center for Excellence in Addressing Alcohol and other Drug Misuse. The Center was founded as a specifically youth alcohol and other drug misuse prevention technical assistance and data support center in NH with funding from the NH Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services. As early as 2010, however, the Center began to evolve into a hub for training, technical assistance, consultation, communications, and data and evaluation services across the continuum of care. This evolution was facilitated in part by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation which committed to contributing financial resources to the Center for an expanded scope of services. Since then, the Center has continued to add a variety of state and national projects to our portfolio, expanding our expertise throughout the continuum of care and across the array of supportive, evidence-based training and consultation services.