How To Add Prevention to Youth Substance Use Intervention

How To Add Prevention to Youth Substance Use Intervention

Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based practices strategy for providing early substance use/misuse intervention with adolescents and young adults.

SBIRT has recently been expanded to include substance use/misuse prevention and promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviors enhancing mental wellbeing among young people.

This new expansion of SBIRT is called Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW)-SBIRT.

PPW-SBIRT is a whole-health prevention and early intervention-focused strategy that targets substance use/misuse prevention intervention (e.g., alcohol, e-cigarette, marijuana, opioids, and others) but also promotes healthy lifestyle behaviors (i.e., physical activity, healthy nutrition, sleep, and stress control) known to enhance mental and physical wellbeing.

PPW-SBIRT includes the validated CRAFFT screening tool or ASSIST-Lite screener for adults allowing the provider to implement PPW SBIRT as both a universal prevention and health intervention for all youth/adults while identifying higher-risk individuals for referral to treatment.

PPW-SBIRT can be implemented in school-based health centers, behavioral health organizations, substance abuse treatment settings, college health and wellness centers, military bases, walk-in clinics providing school and sport physical examinations and wellness check-ups, and organizations and agencies providing regular prevention and SBIRT services.  

PPW-SBIRT is an enhanced SBIRT that provides all individuals with an evidence-based prevention intervention aimed at reducing risk for substance use/misuse and promoting protective healthy behaviors to enhance overall mental health, wellbeing and performance in school, work, and life.

Learn more: https://preventionpluswellness.com/pages/prevention-plus-wellness-programs-include-sbirt-protocol

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