Our NTAC Partners

Alliance for Rights and Recovery
The Alliance for Rights and Recovery is a nationally recognized leader in advancing human rights, peer support, recovery, psychiatric rehabilitation, and lived-experience leadership. For more than four decades, the Alliance has strengthened peer-run organizations and developed peer leaders through training, technical assistance, organizational development, and advocacy. Through national initiatives including SAMHSA’s BRSS TACS and the SPARK Training and Technical Assistance Center, the Alliance has helped peer-run organizations strengthen leadership, organizational capacity, sustainability, and their ability to advance rights and drive meaningful systems change.
 

C4 Innovations
C4 Innovations (C4) is a woman-owned, mission-driven small business dedicated to advancing access to recovery, wellness, and housing stability for all. Since 2006, C4's multidisciplinary team has collaborated with local, state, and national partners to identify service gaps, design training and technical assistance solutions, and implement and evaluate programs. C4 prioritizes the lived and living experience and first-hand knowledge of staff and partners to enrich all of its work. 

National Empowerment Center (NEC)
NEC is the longest standing Consumer Technical Assistance Center (CTAC), having received federal funding to provide TA to developing peer-run organizations, deliver training, and facilitate learning collaboratives for over 20 years. NEC's core training is Emotional CPR, which has been delivered in over 30 countries, translated to 9 different languages, and is now considered an Evidence-Based Practice. NEC also has expertise in providing TA to develop and sustain peer respites nationwide, and has several resources, including a national directory, accessible on their website. 

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)
Founded in 1959, NASMHPD represents State mental health agencies, their Directors, and the State public mental health service delivery system in all 59 states, U.S. territories, Pacific Jurisdictions, and the District of Columbia. NASMHPD has a strong dedication over multiple decades to promoting, advancing, and supporting recovery support services and peer-run organizations. The organization provides direct technical assistance and training, informs members on current and emerging public policy issues, educates on research findings and best practices, facilitates state to state sharing, and has developed a wealth of highly utilized webinars, learning collaboratives, issue briefs, guidance manuals, and other resources.