Fifteen cooperative agreements worth a total of $66 million have been inked between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and providers who will implement Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) projects.

The five-year grants will help communities and health providers identify individuals with addiction problems and steer them into treatment.

Four of the awardees will receive between $10.2 million and $12.5 million for SBIRT programs over the next five years via the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Recipients are the Tanana Chiefs Conference of Fairbanks, Alaska and the states of West Virginia, Missouri, and Georgia.

Another 11 recipients will receive $19 million total over five years to support SBIRT Medical Residency programs in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington, D.C.