Best in Show: SBIRT Tips and Tricks
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Description:
With its combination of effectiveness and speed, the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model deserves a place in every health center’s behavioral health integration toolkit, no matter the stage of its integration journey. This webinar will cover the use of SBIRT for both adult and adolescent patients to help prevent, identify, and treat drug and alcohol use misuse. This webinar will cover the major how-tos of SBIRT: evaluating evidence-based screening and assessment tools; developing solid workflows; and building treatment referral networks. You’ll leave this webinar with a fresh perspective on the foundational benefits of SBIRT for integrated care.
Earn 1 Behavioral Health continuing education credit (CEUs) for attending this webinar.
Objectives:
Participants in this webinar will be able to:
- Discuss the role of SBIRT in the delivery of behavioral health and substance use disorder integration in primary care.
- Evaluate evidence-based screening and assessment tools for SBIRT use.
- Identify key skills for brief interventions (e.g., motivational interviewing) for training planning.
- Outline staff and workflow considerations to ensure SBIRT fidelity and effectiveness.
- Review approaches to building accessible treatment referral networks.
Presenter:
Kevin Hylton, PhD, Bizzell US, is a medical sociologist with more than 25 years of experience managing and directing federal and private sector contracts in public health, education, and human services, with technical expertise in training and technical assistance, program evaluation, data management and analysis, and capacity building. He has served as a technical/subject matter expert lead for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) SBIRT program implementation in clinical settings and facilitated the training for medical residents and other health care professionals to administer the SBIRT model. He is an author and presenter of journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports on a variety of behavioral health topics and is a faculty member in the University of Maryland system, where he teaches more than 15 courses in the Sociology, Psychology, and Behavioral Sciences departments and in the School of Social Work. Dr. Hylton holds a PhD in Sociology from Howard University and an MS in Higher Education Administration from SUNY College at Buffalo.