Dr. Gloria E. Cain

Dr. Gloria E. Cain, MSW, PhD, is a director of the DC Addiction Treatment and Recovery Coalition and is listed by the coalition with Howard University, where she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work.

At Howard she serves as Director of Training for the university's SBIRT Community Expansion program — screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment, delivered where people already are rather than where they must travel to find care. Howard describes more than 20 years of her experience in training and education in motivational interviewing, and her research interests include alcohol and substance misuse among African Americans and screening and brief intervention in community and healthcare settings.

Her chapter is the coalition's academic one: the evidence base, the workforce pipeline, and the teaching that carries both into practice.