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Project Amp

C4 Innovations Project Amp is a young adult peer-based substance use prevention and early intervention program designed to prevent and reduce substance use among low to moderate risk youth. Project Amp supports the goals of state substance use directors by expanding connections to peer support and enhancing key prevention and…

Improving Access to Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care for Adolescents: Implementation Considerations

In 2016, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) launched a learning collaborative of safety net health plans to increase access to SBIRT for adolescent Medicaid beneficiaries within primary care settings. Seven participating health plans trained 300 providers in SBIRT at more than 40 provider sites over three years. Tew…

Implementing Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Youth: Survey Results Across Settings

This report describes the results of a 2016 survey disseminated by Abt Associates to better understand the various approaches to implementation of youth SBIRT utilized across the Hilton Foundation’s grantees. Survey respondents included staff working in medical settings, school-based health centers, and community-based programs. The findings are compared to evidence-based…

Implementing SBIRT for Adolescents Within Community Mental Health Organizations: A Mixed Methods Study

This mixed methods study examined the implementation of SBIRT across 27 community mental health organizations (CMHOs) serving adolescents. All participating organizations were expected to implement SBIRT, using CRAFFT and UNCOPE instruments with adolescents aged 15 to 22, and based on the results, deliver a brief intervention and/or referral to treatment.

Expanding Substance Use Prevention and Early Intervention in Schools: A Toolkit

This toolkit consists of 16 resources to expand school-based services for substance use prevention and early intervention – including through Project Amp, a peer-delivered model being implemented in schools across the country. Four resources focus on expansion strategies that highlight specific pathways and policies that have been used to expand…

Educating Undergraduate Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Students in Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Using an Online, Interactive Simulation

Koetting and Freed discuss the use of eLearning as a tool to train nursing students in SBIRT procedures. Fifty eight undergraduate nursing students practiced with the learning program SBI with Adolescents by Kognito®, which simulated conversations with potential SBIRT patients. Participants were asked to take pre- and post-test surveys assessing…

Best Practices: A Guide for Peers

Best practices guide to working with peers in recovery support. Young People in Recovery…

988 Playbook for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Providers

Download Temporarily Unavailable SAMHSA, in co-sponsorship with NASMHPD, convened with national partners across critical working sectors involved with 988 to help advance 988 planning efforts at the state and local levels. These national-level meetings brought together states, territories, and tribes; crisis contact centers; public safety answering points; and behavioral health…

Assessment of Incorporation of Lessons From Tobacco Control in City and County Laws Regulating Legal Marijuana in California

This cross-sectional study of all 539 California cities and counties found that jurisdictions differed widely in how they regulated marijuana, and that key public health recommendations and lessons from tobacco control have generally not been adopted, although local innovation is emerging. It concludes that jurisdictions undergoing marijuana legalization may need…

Advocate Toolkit: Funding Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) with Young People

This toolkit provides a roadmap for advocates to identify and leverage a range of funding sources to support the implementation of SBIRT in schools and medical settings. Several policy and advocacy strategies are highlighted throughout that have the potential to bring funding and resources to youth SBIRT initiatives. The first…