Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Training

The National American Indian and Alaska Native PTTC is pleased to announce a 3-hour technical assistance and learning collaborative.

Spots are limited.

August 24, 2021

8:00-11:00 AKST . 9:00-12:00 PM PST . 10:00-1:00 PM MST .

11:00-2:00 PM CST . 12:00-3:00 PM EST

This training is focused on helping behavioral health providers serving Native American communities develop and strengthen their skills of early identification and intervention using the SBIRT Model.

Goals for SBIRT Training:

1. Provide a 3-hour webinar training to introduce and describe the SBIRT model

2. Offer resources to further individual’s practices

3. Post-training, there will be opportunities for personalized sessions to discuss and practice implementing the model into practice. Each post-training session will be up to 2 hours and will address any challenges that arise in real practice with clients

Since 1974, Dr. Tomlin has been in the addictions and mental health treatment and prevention field as a counselor, administrator, educator, and consultant. Now is semi-retirement, Dr. Tomlin is committed to sharing her experiences and knowledge within Native American/Alaska (NA/AI) communities. Her career has focused on the development of supervision and training practices to support the professional development of evidenced based practices.

She is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, where her mother was raised. On her father’s side, she is Irish American from county Mayo in Ireland. Her family has many roots in the NW, with relatives from the southern Willamette Valley to Seattle.

For more information, contact:

Cindy Sagoe, MPH

Program Coordinator

cindy-sagoe@uiowa.edu