CARE's entire multidisciplinary team participates in Collaborative Technical Assistance and Support (CTAS) with individuals, families, schools and organizations across the US.

What is CTAS?

• Although basic technical assistance (traditional training and support) is effective in many contexts, it may not be sufficient to achieve sustainable classroom / organization / systemic changes in other contexts. CTAS is a multi-pronged, long-term strategy to address this.

Why CTAS?

• Office of Special Education Program's (OSEP's) recommendation: "to provide purposeful, planned series of activities designed to reach an outcome that is valued by the host organization" (June, 2009).
• National Implementation Research Network (Fixsen et al, 2005) concluded: "there is good evidence that successful implementation efforts require a longer-term multilevel approach."

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