Western Michigan SBIRT Core Training Activity

Mr. Applegate has experience in substance use counseling, state initiatives impacting substance use, and professional training. His prior positions include director of higher education and instructional design at the North Carolina Governor’s Institute on Alcohol and Substance Abuse, project director of the North Carolina Initiative of the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and program director of the Addiction Sciences Center (an outpatient substance abuse treatment center at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center). Mr. Applegate works as an on-site consultant and travels to the Clinical Tools (CTI) office on a monthly basis from his office in Richmond, VA. Mr. Applegate helped design the CTI Instructional Manual and works to continue to revise it as we expand our Instructional Design methodology. Mr. Applegate has extensive experience with online education and training, especially in the area of substance abuse. He often pushes the envelope of technology and brainstorms with Clinical Tools how we can utilize new technology in our products. He helped guide development of the curriculum plan and assessments in Phase I of the current project.