Campus Construction Update

Starting September 14, we’re closing the Menino building lobby entrance. This, along with the ongoing Yawkey building entrance closure, will help us bring you an even better campus experience that matches the exceptional care you've come to expect. Please enter the Menino and Yawkey buildings through the Moakley building, and make sure to leave extra time to get to your appointment. Thank you for your patience. 

Click here to learn more about our campus redesign. 

Project ASSERT (Alcohol and Substance Use Services, Education, and Referral to Treatment) provides screening and brief intervention to patients in BMC's Emergency Department. Project ASSERT's team members counsel patients whose alcohol and/or drug use was directly and indirectly implicated in their need for emergency services.

Project ASSERT is a nationally recognized, evidence-based program uses motivational interviewing to encourage patients and family members to seek care for risky use of substances. It also helps patients access primary care, clinical preventive services, and treatment for alcohol and substance use disorders. Project ASSERT was the first nationally cited Emergency Department program to deploy peer counselors/educators as motivators and navigators to identify and intervene with patients with substance use disorders. These peer professionals, recruited from communities served by BMC, play a vital role in bringing their expertise, life experience, service network contacts and a nonjudgmental, respectful approach to patients struggling with addiction. 

Contact Us

Our Team

Carla B. Monteiro, MSW, LICSW, LADC-I, Behavioral Health Director for Addiction Treatment Services 

Maria Fitzpatrick, MSW, LICSW, Clinical Supervisor of Project ASSERT/ Rapid ACCESS 

John Cromwell, LADC-II, Health Promotion Advocate 

Erin Pritchard, Health Promotion Advocate 

Trudy Swan, Health Promotion Advocate 

 

Research Overview

Project ASSERT: an ED-based intervention to increase access to primary care, preventive services, and the substance abuse treatment system - Bernstein E, Bernstein J, Levenson S.. Ann Emerg Med. 1997;30(2):181-189. doi:10.1016/s0196-0644(97)70140-9