Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Developed for residency programs, measures practitioner competence in delivering BNI by listing the critical steps and providing space for feedback to improve performance

Provides resources for assessing organizational readiness, building the business case, and workforce development for integrating primary care and behavioral health

Describes and offers resources on how to use CFIR to evaluate or design an implementation study

Provides communities, clinicians, policymakers, and others with information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings

Provides state-level information on laws addressing requirements that health plans provide the same levels of benefits for alcohol-related disorders as they do for medical and surgical conditions

Provides general information about telehealth, how to talk with a doctor about telehealth options; finding telehealth options through insurance, federally qualified health centers, and other sources; COVID-19 self-assessment tools; a digital telehealth directory and emergency hotlines

Provides general information about telehealth, how to talk with a patient about telehealth options; finding telehealth options through insurance, federally qualified health centers, and other sources; COVID-19 self-assessment tools; a digital telehealth directory and emergency hotlines.

Explains the Model for Improvement, a tool designed to help organizations accelerate improvement through two parts: 3 fundamental questions and the PDSA cycle

Offers information on ways to adopt the brief negotiated interview (BNI) in a practice, trainings, considerations for adopting BNI into clinical patient visits, and an example of how BNI was implemented in the Yale SBIRT Residency Training Program