Since its inception, the Institute has trained over 80,000 individuals at well over 2000 different training events. In an average year the agency produces over 200 training events for approximately 10,000 people. The training and educational activities have ranged from small seminars to full scale, multi-day conferences with over 150 presenters and 1,500 participants. The Institute has extensive experience in managing every aspect of training from needs assessments planning through training implementation and evaluation.   Most recently, the agency has started utilizing a variety of distance education strategies such as satellite downlinking, point-to-point video conferencing and on-line learning.  The institute maintains offices in Worcester, MA, Boston, MA and Augusta, ME.

In addition to the substance abuse course or training programs the agency develops, the Institute has access to national training models, curricula and opportunities from NIDA, NIH, NIAAA, CSAT, CSAP and other sources. Information is gathered using the Internet/World Wide Web and through collaboration with:

The New England Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC-NE)

The New England Institute of Addiction Studies.