Job Description

Ms. Woods has served as Project Manager, a position she held with the Mountain West Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) for 10 years and currently for the National Frontier and Rural (NFAR) ATTC since February 2013 and Nevada’s Train, Educate, Adopt, and Collaborate SBIRT (teachSBIRT) since 2015. As Project Manager, Ms. Woods represents NFAR-ATTC and teachSBIRT in the absence of the PI/Project Director, prepares funding agency reports, attends National ATTC Network and SAMHSA SBIRT grantee meetings, coordinates product and faculty development, and participates on several National ATTC Workgroup Committees. Ms. Woods is also a Dissemination Specialist for National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Blending Initiative activities/training for the Central Rockies ATTC. In addition, Ms. Woods developed and teaches the online version of the fundamentals course in CASAT’s Addiction Treatment Minor program at UNR and has over 16 years’ experience in the addictions treatment field.

Years At CASAT / Positions Held

• 10/15 – Present Nevada’s Train, Educate, Adopt, and Collaborate Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral to Treatment (teachSBIRT), University of Nevada Reno, NV, Project Manager
• 2/13 – Present National Frontier and Rural Addiction Technology Transfer Center, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, Project Manager
• 2/13 – Present Central Rockies Addiction Technology Transfer Center, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, National Institute on Drug Abuse Dissemination Specialist
• 10/06 – 09/10 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Enters College Project, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, Co-Principle Investigator/Curriculum Director
• 01/03 – Present Division of Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, Faculty
• 07/03 – 12/12 Mountain West Addiction Technology Transfer Center, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, Project Manager
• 11/02 – 03/04 Mountain West Addiction Technology Transfer Center, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, National Institute on Drug Abuse Liaison

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 an Instructor and Senior Project Manager 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 manages and coordinates all aspects of Nevada’s Train, Educate, Adopt & Collaborate for Healthcare Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (teachSBIRT) curriculum/ resource development and implementation into academic courses within the Schools of Nursing and Social Work at UNR. Ms. Woods is also a Project Manager for the National Frontier and Rural Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) and has worked on several National ATTC Network Work-group Committees and as a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Liaison for the NIDA/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Blending Initiative activities/training in rural and frontier communities. In addition, Ms. Woods developed and teaches the online version of the fundamentals course in CASAT’s Addiction Treatment Minor program at UNR and has over 17 years’ experience in the addictions treatment field providing culturally appropriate, research-based training, education and technology transfer activities in order to strengthen the allied health workforce.

Grants I Work On

Mountain Plains FASD, Nevada Teach SBIRT, NFAR ATTC, Region 8 Central Rockies ATTC, Faculty, CASAT Addiction Treatment Services Minor