Title: National Alcohol Screening Day Training at APHA
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Section/SPIG: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
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SAMHSA and NIAAA will sponsor a free training session on how to conduct a National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD) event in a community, college or primary care setting at APHA on Sunday, Nov. 16, between 9 a.m. and Noon offering breakfast, CEU's, lessons learned from NASD 2003, how to screen using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and how to conduct a brief intervention after scoring AUDIT results.
This training will provide APHA members with the opportunity to experience first hand their shared priority in screening and brief intervention. To register, please contact: Ann Mahony at CSAT at <amahony@samhsa.gov>. Please use the subject line: APHA Nat. Alcohol Screening Day Registration.
The NASD program, the Nation's only large-scale screening and early intervention program for alcohol problems, began in 1999. Screenings are conducted at community-based health care facilities, primary care offices and colleges. NASD is held annually in April and is organized by the nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health, Inc., with major support from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
NASD 2003 was a huge success! For the first time ever, the number of screening sites surpassed 3,200, an increase of 63 percent over the previous year. Sites that participated reported phenomenal success in reaching community members with the program's message, “Alcohol and Health: Where Do You Draw the Line?” Over 100,000 people attended NASD screening events nationwide.
The next National Alcohol Screening Day will be held on Thursday, April 8, 2004.
For more information, visit <www.mentalhealthscreening.org> or contact Screening for
Mental Health, Inc., at 781–239–0071 or <info@mentalhealthscreening.org>.