SBIRT in Schools

• With grant support from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, C4 and YPR are developing and evaluating new approaches to support youth who screen as low to moderate risk for substance use.

• C4 will partner with six communities to implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and link adolescents to a brief mentoring intervention, with the goal of enhancing positive social supports and other protective factors.

Benefits of Being a Project Amp Pilot Site• Increase capacity for youth SBIRT, including training

and technical assistance resources• Serve as a demonstration site for a cutting-edge

youth peer prevention program• Connect with a national community of pilot site

providers and peers• Contribute to the emerging evidence base on youth

SBIRT and peer supports• Test out approaches that align with new integration

standards under the Affordable Care Act• Receive a sub-grant to support implementation costs

Looking ahead• While the pilot phase of this study will engage

approximately 20 adolescents at each site, our goal is to establish an SBIRT-based, peer-delivered brief intervention approach that can be widely replicated.

• The intervention design calls for the engagement of a broad range of prevention, treatment, and recovery stakeholders, which strengthens a community’s capacity to prevent problem substance use.

• Mentors:o Kennesaw State University Collegiate

Recovery Programo Trained in Motivational Interviewing,

ethical practices and prevention scienceoUse their lived experienceo Focus on wellness