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Preparing your Health Center for SBIRT Implementation – Extended Online Professional Learning Series

Preparing your Health Center for SBIRT Implementation Extended Online Professional Learning Series

Every Thursday, April 24 – June 5, 2025
8:00AM – 9:30 AM (PT)

About the training: Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is designed to provide universal screening, prevention, and early intervention and treatment within health care and community-based organizations for people who have risky or hazardous alcohol and/or drug use. This extended online learning series will use blended activities, self-study and performance feedback related to the utilization and implementation of SBIRT and expose participants to standardized SBIRT protocols. Through virtual-interactive learning, participants will receive real-time performance feedback related SBIRT implementation strategies with an emphasis on integrating brief interventions into current services and workflow. This is not a webinar series and active participant engagement to gain/improve skills are required.

This training is intended for the following audience: Community Health Workers, Medical Assistants, Nurses and Behavioral Health Providers located in Nevada. Currently using SBIRT or in the process of implementing SBIRT in a healthcare setting.

Participant Commitment & Expectations:

  • Access to appropriate technology to utilize Zoom videoconferencing platform (i.e., an internet connection, webcam, laptop/tablet, speakers and microphone)
  • Attend a live one-hour online Orientation Session on Thursday, April 24 at 8:00 am. 
  • Commit to 6-weeks of training for 1.5 hours weekly from May 1- June 5, 2025 and complete ONE hour of weekly self-study learning activities.

Trainer/Facilitator: Christina Boyd, LSCSW, LCAC

This Series is Available to you at NO Cost. The first 35 registrants will receive a waiver that covers the entire $350 cost of participation.*Due to limited enrollment, if you cannot commit to the full participant requirements, please defer this registration opportunity to others.

Questions? Please email the Adopt SBIRT Staff at workwise@casat.org or by phone at 775-784-6265 or 866-617-2816 (toll-free). Click below to Register Now!

CONTINUING EDUCATION: This webinar has been approved for 16 continuing education hours through the International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) and the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) ACEP No. 6492. Participants must attend the live event to receive continuing education credits.

This course has also been approved by CASAT, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 16 CEUs. NAADAC Provider #98165. CASAT is responsible for all aspects of its programming. (This event applies to the following Counselor Skill Groups as defined by NAADAC: Counseling Services, Treatment Planning, Case Management, Discharge and Continuing Care, and Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.)

This publication was supported in whole or in part by the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health Bureau of Behavioral Health, Prevention, and Wellness through funding provided by the Nevada State Opioid Response Grant [6H79TI083310-02M004 and 1H79TI08576-01] awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA). The opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibit are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, SAMSHA or the State of Nevada.

Date & Time:

April 24, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 9:30 am PDT

Organizer

Adopt SBIRT

Venue

Zoom Meeting