Advanced SBIRT Training

What is SBIRT?

SBIRT is an evidence-based practice used to screen for substance use, inform the level of risk, and select appropriate interventions and referrals.

Who can use SBIRT?

Anyone working with youth who have at-risk substance use before more severe consequences occur. This might be chemical health coordinators, school counselors, school nurses, WIC staff, or any clinician working with adolescents regarding substance use.

This training will provide information and skills practice for each component of SBIRT, as well as deepen the knowledge-base further, for those who have attended a Dakota County SBIRT training in the past.

Ken C. Winters, Ph.D. is a Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute (MN location) and a Consultant for the Native Center for Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. He previously was a Professor at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Psychiatry, where he founded and directed the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research for 25 years. Dr. Winters has received numerous research grants to address behavioral health from the National Institute of Health and various foundations during a 35-year period. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and other works, which include many on the Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model.

He is a frequent speaker and trainer, and recently co-founded Smart Approaches to Marijuana Minnesota.