SAMHSA’s 10 Strategic Initiatives (posted 2/2)

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has identified ten strategic initiatives which the agency will focus on under its new administrator, Pam Hyde.  The initiatives are intended to advance SAMHSA’s work on improving the delivery and financing of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services. The 10 initiatives are:

• Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness: Create prevention prepared communities and to focus on prevention of mental illness and substance abuse, focusing first on children and youth, and eventually serving individuals, families, peers, schools, businesses and communities across the lifespan.
  
• Violence and Trauma: Reduce the behavioral health impacts of violence and trauma and integrate trauma-informed services in prevention and treatment programs in States and communities, and throughout the health service delivery system to address root causes of pervasive, harmful, and costly public health problems.
  
• Military Families: Support of our service men and women and their families and communities by leading efforts to ensure needed behavioral health services are accessible and outcomes are successful.
  
• Housing and Homelessness: Provide housing and reduce the barriers that homeless persons with mental and substance use disorders and their families experience when accessing programs that sustain recovery.
  
• Jobs and Economy: Use funding streams to boost employment opportunities in communities for people in need of jobs including people with mental and substance use disorders. 
  
• Health Insurance Reform Implementation: Achieve equality with all other health conditions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders.
  
• Health Information Technology for Behavioral Health Providers: Ensure the behavioral health provider network, including prevention specialists and consumer providers, fully participate with the general health care delivery
• system in the adoption of health information technology.
  
• Behavioral Health Workforce - In Primary and Specialty Care Settings: Provide a coordinated approach to address workforce development issues affecting the behavioral health service delivery community. 
  
• Data and Outcomes - Getting Results: Realize an integrated data strategy that informs policy and measures program impact leading to improved outcomes for people in need of services.
  
• Public Awareness and Support: Change how mental health and substance abuse services are perceived so that people seek help for these conditions with the same urgency as any other health condition.

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