What is the status of federally funded SBIRT programs nationwide?
Wisconsin is one of 10 states with an SBIRT grant (“SBIRT” stands for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment). California, Illinois, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and the Cook Inlet Tribal Council received SBIRT grants in 2003. Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin received their grants in 2006. As of May 2007, more than a half million Americans received services via SBIRT projects. For more information, visit http://sbirt.samhsa.gov, the SBIRT site of the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
