Biography
Mid-Atlantic Regional Vice President, NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals

Thomas Durham, PhD, brings more than 35 years experience in behavioral health treatment and has been an educator and trainer for over 20 years delivering a variety of training topics for behavioral health professionals on topics such as clinical supervision, motivational interviewing, co-occurring disorders, ethics, medicated assisted treatment, compassion fatigue, and leadership. His leadership training has included the matching and coordination of mentoring relationships between leadership proteges and high-level professional mentor/coaches.

Before joining JBS, he was Project Director of the Central East Addiction Technology Training Center (ATTC), a government funded program providing analysis and training to enhance state based behavioral health workforce development. In this role he coordinated the ATTC’s center of excellence on prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDs and hepatitis among individuals with behavioral health disorders. He also facilitated the work of four regional ATTCs in the development of an online course focusing on HIV/AIDS with ethnic minority men who has sex with men.  Dr. Durham was also the Senior Clinician and Program Director at ETP, Inc. In these roles he led the Navy Clinical Preceptorship Program where Dr. Durham coordinated clinical services, developed curriculum, evaluated training results, and recruited, oriented and supervised clinical preceptors in the U.S. Navy’s Preceptorship system.  The Preceptorship is a Navy-wide workforce development initiative that includes the mentoring of behavioral health counselors by highly skilled professionals.

At JBS, Dr. Durham is Deputy Project Director for the SAMHSA/CSAT Clinical TA project where he coordinates process and service improvement to over 200 federal grantees through TA and support. This includes the coordination and provision of site visits and TA to substance use disorder treatment and prevention programs throughout the country including those that focus on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. This service is provided as a means of improving efficiencies, enhancing treatment opportunities, facilitating the use of evidence-based practices, and increasing skills and expertise of program staff. He develops service design protocols, conducts collaborative technical assistance and delivers on-the-job training of drug and alcohol treatment professionals.