Job Description

Wendy Woods, M.A. is a Senior Workforce Development Manager at the University of Nevada, Reno’s School of Public Health/Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT). Ms. Woods is the Project Director for the NOCE Screening, Prevention and Intervention project, providing training and technical assistance to support Nevada organizations to expand and improve capacity for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)/MOUD prevention, treatment, recovery and harm reduction services. As a Senior Project Manager of the Mountain Plains (HHS Region 8) Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC), she oversees project staff in developing innovative web-based integrated learning models that use current technologies to provide training, technical assistance (TA), consultation and implementation strategies for the behavioral health field. Ms. Woods also held the position as the Co-PI/Co-Director of the Pacific Southwest (HHS Region 9) Rural Opioid Technical Assistance (ROTA) Regional Center. This project provided activities focused on evidence-based practices/promising practices focused on prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services related to opioid/stimulant use disorders tailored to rural communities. As director of the Nevada State Opioid Response (SOR) Adopt Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Project, she provided Nevada’s healthcare system with expertise and resources to provide training/TA, implementation, workflow, educational materials, and other resources to promote SBIRT for Substance Use/Opioid Use Disorders. Ms. Woods is a co-developer of CASAT’s Addiction Treatment Minor online academic program as well as instructor in the academic minor program and has over 25 years of experience in the field of substance use treatment and recovery.

Years At CASAT (23) / Positions Held

• 7/2025 – Present Project Director, Screening, Prevention and Intervention Project, Nevada Opioid Center of Excellence, University of Nevada Reno (UNR) Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT)
• 1/2003 – Present Instructor, School of Public Health, UNR CASAT
• 10/2017 – Present Senior Project Manager, Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC), UNR CASAT
• 10/2017 – Present Senior Project Manager, National Frontier and Rural Telehealth Education Center, UNR CASAT
• 10/2022 – 9/2025 Co-Principal Investigator/Co-Director, Pacific Southwest Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Regional Centers for HHS Region 9, UNR CASAT
• 10/2018 – 9/2025 Project Director, Adopt Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Project, Nevada State Opioid Response Project, UNR CASAT
• 10/2015 – 9/2018 Project Manager, Nevada’s Train, Educate, Adopt, and Collaborate for Healthcare with SBIRT, UNR CASAT
• 10/2013 – 9/2017 Project Manager, National Frontier and Rural ATTC, UNR CASAT
• 10/2013 – 9/2017 National Institute on Drug Abuse Dissemination Specialist, Central Rockies Addiction Technology Transfer Center, UNR CASAT
• 2/2003 – 9/2012 Project Manager, Mountain West Addiction Technology Transfer Center, UNR CASAT
• 10/2006 – 9/2011 Co-Principal Investigator, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Enters College Project, UNR CASAT
• 11/2002 – 9/2004 NIDA Liaison, Mountain West Addiction Technology Transfer Center, UNR CASAT

Work History

• Sierra Tucson Treatment Center for Addictions, Tucson, AZ, Therapist
• Sonora Behavioral Health Hospital, Tucson, AZ, On-Call Evaluator

Personal Bio

Wendy Woods, M.A. is a Workforce Development Senior Project Manager and Academic Instructor at the University of Nevada Reno’s Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT). She earned her M.A. in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Arizona and prior to her position at UNR, worked as a clinician at the residential treatment center, Sierra Tucson™ in Tucson, AZ. As part of her role as a Senior Project Manager at CASAT, Ms. Woods directs, manages and coordinates state and federally funded project grants and contracts. In addition, Ms. Woods provides instruction in CASAT’s Addiction Treatment Minor program at UNR and has over 25 years’ experience in the addictions treatment field providing culturally appropriate, research-based training, education and technology transfer activities in order to strengthen the behavioral health workforce.

Grants I Work On

Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center, NOCE Screening, Prevention and Intervention, National Frontier and Rural Telehealth Education Center and CASAT’s Addiction Treatment Services Minor Program.