SBIRT

Wayne State was the first university in the state of Michigan to receive a SAMHSA grant for training students in Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), which is an integrated, public health approach to delivering early intervention and treatment services for persons with or at risk of developing substance use disorders. SBIRT is designed for use in primary care centers, hospital emergency rooms, trauma centers and other community settings that are a person's first, and sometimes only, contact with the health care system... In 2015 Wayne State University was awarded nearly $1 million to train social work and nursing students to assess patients in primary care settings for substance abuse behaviors. The program trained students and professionals in Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). Over the course of three years, over 800 students and health care professionals were trained in SBIRT.

Primary location: Detroit United States