H79TI084007

Expanding capacity for screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) within a comprehensive university-based behavioral health system - The proposed project will build capacity to implement, evaluate, and sustain access to enhanced, timely, and culturally responsive SBIRT services for substance use and comorbid psychiatric conditions, including availability of medication-assisted treatment (MAT), for undergraduate and graduate college student patients seeking primary care and mental health services within a comprehensive university-based behavioral health care system which has earned national recognition for SBIRT innovation over the past 15 years.

Project goals are to:
1) Increase the number of college students with a SUD receiving timely and responsive brief interventions and specialty treatment, including MAT when indicated;
2) Increase the number of students, including those from minoritized populations, who are receiving SBIRT services within the behavioral health care setting;
3) Reduce consumption of alcohol and other substances and related negative consequences among those receiving SBIRT services; and
4) Develop and implement a tobacco cessation program.

We will implement a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model that integrates health coaches, an addiction psychiatrist, and a psychologist specializing in motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for young adult substance use. Project efforts will reach approximately 15,000 patients (3,000 annually) throughout the life of the grant. Enhancing capacity will assist in saving many young lives, approximately 40% of whom live in poverty.

Additionally, this project will also help us identify, understand, and disseminate what works to effectively implement SBIRT within university-based health care delivery settings serving more than 21 million college students across the United States.

This project has been developed through a strategic planning process involving a project institutionalization council of key campus and community stakeholders in response to a critical service need as documented by annual assessment data and records of critical incidents, including three completed suicides involving substance use and three substance overdose-related deaths during the past five years. Beyond backgrounds of poverty and marginalization, data also suggest that an increasing number of our students are arriving with established SUDs requiring comprehensive, accessible, and timely screening and follow-up treatment.

Key staff members have been collaborating as a team for the past 15 years and have built capacity for SBIRT with the support of over $9 million in grants from SAMHSA, NIAAA, NIDA, and the U.S. Department of Education. Highlights of the health system's national-level accomplishments include the development of the STEPS program, an evidence-based SBIRT protocol listed in SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices, as well as refereed publications and books stemming from its work on SBIRT for young adults. These accomplishments in SBIRT to date have earned national recognition through awards in behavioral health innovation and have informed the President's National Drug Control Strategy.

Research Foundation For The State University Of New York

SAMHSA WAS GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS PRIORITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, PREVENTION AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE THROUGH ASSISTANCE (GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS) TO STATES, POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF STATES, INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER PUBLIC OR NONPROFIT PRIVATE ENTITIES. UNDER THESE SECTIONS, CSAT, CMHS AND CSAP SEEK TO EXPAND THE AVAILABILITY OF EFFECTIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERVICES AVAILABLE TO AMERICANS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THOSE AFFECTED BY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDITIONS, AND TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ON INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETIES AND TO ADDRESS PRIORITY MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND ASSIST CHILDREN IN DEALING WITH VIOLENCE AND TRAUMATIC EVENTS THROUGH BY FUNDING GRANT AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT PROJECTS. GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS MAY BE FOR (1) KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION PROJECTS FOR TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION AND THE CONDUCT OR SUPPORT OF EVALUATIONS OF SUCH PROJECTS, (2) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, (3) TARGETED CAPACITY RESPONSE PROGRAMS (4) SYSTEMS CHANGE GRANTS INCLUDING STATEWIDE FAMILY NETWORK GRANTS AND CLIENT-ORIENTED AND CONSUMER RUN SELF-HELP ACTIVITIES AND (5) PROGRAMS TO FOSTER HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN, (6) COORDINATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRIMARY CARE SERVICES INTO PUBLICLY-FUNDED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS AND OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SETTINGS

93.243 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Albany, New York 122220100 United States

Single Zip Code

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (TI-21-008)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 309% from $936,414 to $3,825,555.