Thursday, April 25, 2024
4/25/2024
The Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (IDHS/DASA), submits this application in response to SAMHSA FOA # TI-18-007, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). The expanded SBIRT services will be provided to adult patients at Silver Cross Hospital in Will County (Illinois), and the three hospitals in the Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) Network. Family Guidance Centers, Inc. will be responsible for the provision of SBIRT services at Silver Cross Hospital, and SIH will be responsible for the provision of SBIRT services at the hospitals in its network. Evidence is provided regarding the need for expanded hospital-based SBIRT services within this grant’s two catchment areas. This need has been exacerbated by the serious impacts of the opioid crisis within Illinois, and specific to these two areas. IDHS/DASA’s successful implementation of two SAMHSA/CSAT SBIRT cooperative agreements is described. This SBIRT grant will allow IDHS/DASA to apply this experience to the implementation of SBIRT services to geographic areas of Illinois that were not represented in these two previous awards. The persons served through this SBIRT grant will be adult hospital patients who are residents of relatively small urban areas and areas that can be characterized as rural in nature. The experience gained and lessons learned through the previous SBIRT Illinois awards were taken into account in the design and implementation plan of this grant program. SBIRT Screening and Brief Intervention (BI) services will be provided by FGC, SIH, and medical staff who complete BI training. Letters of commitment are provided from IDHS/DASA licensed and funded substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers who will give priority to patients referred by SBIRT staff at the participating hospitals. The SUD levels of care available at these provider organizations will include an outpatient service that meets the criteria of Brief Treatment. Letters of commitment are also provided from treatment organizations who will provide access to medication assisted treatment (MAT) for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). Delivery of the SBIRT services to be provided will be enhanced by the principles of motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy. The IDHS/DASA SBIRT implementation plan includes a Phase I start-up period that will extend no longer than four months, to be followed by the start of expanded hospital-based SBIRT services within each of the two catchment areas. It is projected that at least 40,000 unduplicated adult patients/clients will receive Illinois SBIRT services over the five years of CSAT funding. The estimated numbers of patients/clients in the Screening and Feedback Only (SF - 28,000), Brief Intervention (BI - 8,000), Brief Treatment (BT - 900), and Referral to Treatment (RT - 3,100) service categories are based on experience gained from the previous SBIRT award to Illinois, and findings reported in the professional literature. IDHS/DASA will contract with Lighthouse Institute of Illinois to implement the grant’s performance measurement plan. IDHS/DASA is requesting $995,000 in each of five years of SAMHSA/CSAT funding.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
