The International Technology Transfer Center of Colombia is housed at the CES University and is supported by the Center of Excellence for Research in Mental Health - CESIM- and the research groups of the Faculty of Medicine, Psychology and Nursing.
ITTC – Colombia, is a platform that calls all professionals, people, communities and institutions that work on the issue of drug demand reduction, to develop capacities, increase knowledge and skills to implement evidence-based interventions and facilitate the transformation of systems to create the political and social environments necessary to sustain change over time.
What we are looking for
- Strengthen the capacities of professionals and researchers to generate evidence to support the design and evaluation of policies and programs for the prevention, early detection, intervention, treatment and rehabilitation of substance use disorders.
- Promote the generation of multisectoral teams to interconnect those who generate and those who use evidence, through the exchange of information and resources, as well as participation in training and technical assistance activities
- Support the development of national and regional policies on drugs and alcohol that promote the implementation of best practices based on evidence for services for the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of substance use disorders.
- Disseminate cutting-edge evidence on policies and programs for the prevention, early detection, intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation of substance use disorders.
- Develop technical guidelines for the prevention of drug use, early detection, and the treatment and rehabilitation of substance use disorders.
- Adapt and adopt evidence-based prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programs to our sociocultural and political contexts to intervene in problems associated with drug use.
How we do it
- Participating in the analysis and development of technology and information transfer systems.
- Conducting assessments to identify gaps and needs in drug demand reduction training and skills development.
- Identifying, adopting, and adapting evidence-based interventions to address areas of greatest need in drug demand reduction.
- Advising, collaborating and accompanying the designers, planners, implementers of drug demand reduction policies at the local and regional level.
What services do we offer?
- Integration, interaction and relationship through the formation of networks of researchers, professionals, therapists, public administrators and people and workers who develop actions around the issue of drug demand reduction.
- Training and technical assistance (courses, seminars and face-to-face and virtual workshops)
- Advice and consultancy for the design, planning, implementation of programs and policies related to drug demand reduction.
- Evaluation of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programs for substance use disorders.
- Repository of evidence-based materials and programs.
- Transfer of technology and information on evidence-based drug demand reduction.
