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National Reporting Program
for Mental Health Statistics
THE PEOPLE WE SERVE
- The CMHS National Reporting Program (NRP) for Mental Health Statistics collects and reports
national statistical information on mental health services and the people who receive them.
- NRP provides information to State mental health agencies, national mental health organizations,
researchers, academic leaders, other Federal agencies, national media, and legislators.
- NRP data are used by the following:
- Parents seeking background information for a court hearing to place their child in a residential
treatment facility;
- Mental health providers setting up mental health services;
- State and local health care policy makers and purchasers, for formulating initial and projected
mental health benefit packages; and
- The U.S. Supreme Court for decisions about continuing Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
benefits for people in State mental hospitals.
- NRP is the only national source of information that focuses on services and clients from mental health
organizations. It is operated collaboratively with the States, national organizations (National
Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, National Association of Psychiatric Health
Systems, and American Hospital Association), and local mental health organizations.
MANDATE
- NRP is authorized by Section 520 (b) (13) of the Public Health Service Act.
FUNDING
FY 1995
$ 1,700,000*
* This program is funded by the 5 percent set-aside from the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant.<
STATUS
- NRP is recognized in the mental health field as the authoritative data source on mental health
organizations and their staff, finances, and clients.
- NRP data are used widely by researchers and cited extensively in scientific literature.
- Each year, NRP staff respond directly to more than 2,000 requests for information and disseminate
approximately 100,000 publications to members of the mental health field, media, researchers, Federal
agencies, and others.
- The following linkages are maintained with the fields of alcohol and drug abuse, general health,
rehabilitation, and justice:
- Epidemiological data on mental disorders are coordinated with the National Center for Health
Statistics, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Office of Applied Studies within
SAMHSA.
- Projects are underway with the Rehabilitation Services Administration in the Department of
Education to study rehabilitation data on people with mental disabilities.
- Inter agency agreements are in place with the National Center for Health Statistics to collect and
analyze mental health information from the National Health Interview Survey for persons with
disabilities and for children and their families.
- Survey data items have been included in a Department of Justice (DOJ) study of individuals on
probation.
- Surveys of mental health services in State prisons and local jails were completed, and a survey of
the juvenile justice system is underway in collaboration with DOJ.
- NRP focuses on modernizing the data collection system, adapting to recent developments in managed
care, and expanding coverage to provide a more comprehensive look at mental health services.
- NRP is looking at linkages among providers comprising systems of care outside traditional mental
health settings and at models of care within these systems.
- NRP is testing the feasibility of surveying the consumer self-help system.
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