Substance Abuse and Administration of Mental Health Services ( SAMHSA ) is a branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It is charged with improving the quality and availability of care and rehabilitation services to reduce illness, death, disability, and costs to society due to substance abuse and mental illness. SAMHSA's administrator reports directly to the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The headquarters building of SAMHSA is located in Rockville, Maryland.
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Histori
SAMHSA was founded in 1992 by Congress as part of a Federal administration reorganization of mental health services; the new law was renamed former Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA). ADAMHA has gone through a series of name changes and organizational settings throughout its history:
- Narcotics Division (1929-30)
- Division of Hygiene (1930-43)
- Mental Hygiene Division, Medical Service Bureau (1943-49)
- NIMH, National Institutes of Health (NIH, 1949-67)
- NIMH (1967-68)
- NIMH, Health Services, and Mental Health Administration (1968-73)
- NIMH, NIH (1973)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIMH (1970-73)
- ADAMHA, founded 1973.
Congress directed SAMHSA to target effective substance abuse and mental health services to the people most in need and to translate research in these areas more effectively and quickly into the general health care system.
Charles Curie was Director of SAMHSA until his resignation in May 2006. In December 2006, Terry Cline was appointed Director of SAMHSA. Dr. Cline served until August 2008. Rear Admiral Eric Broderick served as Temporary Director of Drs. Cline, until the arrival of the next Administrator, Pamela S. Hyde, JD in November 2009. He resigned in August 2015 and Kana Enomoto, MA served as Acting Director of SAMHSA until Dr. Elinore F. McCance-Katz was appointed as Assistant Secretary of Inauguration of Misuse of Health and Mental Substance. The title is altered by Section 6001 of the 21st Century Cures Act.
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Organization
SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on the American community.
The four SAMHSA offices, called Centers, manage competitive grants and data collection programs, formulas, and blocks:
- The Mental Health Service Center (CMHS) focuses on the prevention and treatment of mental disorders.
- The Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Center attempts to reduce the abuse of drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
- The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) supports effective substance abuse and recovery services.
- The Statistics and Healthcare Quality (CBHSQ) Center collects, analyzes, and publish health behavior data.
Centers provides grants and contracts to US states, territories, tribes, communities, and local organizations. They support the provision of quality health-care services such as addiction prevention, treatment and recovery services through the competitive Regional and National Grants Program. Some staff offices support the Center:
- Office Administrator
- Office Policy, Planning, and Innovation
- Office of Behavioral Health Equity
- Office of Financial Resources
- Office Management, Technology and Operations
- Communications Office
- Office of Tribal Affairs and Policy
Mental Health Service Center
The Mental Health Service Center (CMHS) is the Unit of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the US Department of Health and Human Services. This US government agency explains its role as:
The Mental Health Service Center is leading a federal effort to promote the prevention and treatment of mental disorders. Congress created CMHS to bring new hope for adults who have serious mental illness and children with emotional disorders.
In March 2016, CMHS director was Paolo del Vecchio.
CMHS is the driving force behind today's largest US children's mental health initiatives, focused on the creation and maintenance of care systems. This initiative provides grants (now cooperative agreements) to States, political sub-nationalities of States, territories, Indian tribes and tribal organizations to upgrade and expand their Maintenance Systems to meet the needs of focusing populations - children and adolescents with serious emotions, behaviors, or mental disorders. The Children's Mental Health Initiative is the largest Federal commitment to children's mental health to date, and through FY 2006, it has provided over $ 950 million to support SOC development in 126 communities.
Regional office
CMS has its headquarters in Rockville, Maryland with 10 regional offices located across the United States:
SAMHSA's Strategic Direction
In 2010, SAMHSA identified the 8 Strategic Initiatives to focus the Agency's work. Below are the 8 fields and targets associated with each category:
- Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness - Creating a community of prevention prepared in which individuals, families, schools, workplaces and communities take action to improve emotional health; and, to prevent and reduce mental illness, substance abuse (including tobacco), and, suicide, throughout lifetime
- Trauma and Justice - Reduce the exposure of violence and trauma to a widespread, dangerous, and costly public health by integrating a trauma-based approach across health and behavior care systems; also, to divert people with substance abuse and mental disturbance away from the criminal/juvenile system, and into the care and remedy of the informed trauma.
- Military Families - Active, Keeper, Reservation, and Veteran - Support from our service people & amp; women, and their families and communities, with a leading effort to ensure the required health services of behavior are accessible to them, and successful outcomes.
- Health Reform - Expand the scope of health and use of evidence-based practices to improve access to appropriate and high-quality care; also, to reduce the gap that exists between: the availability of substance abuse and mental disorders; and, for other medical conditions.
- Housing and Homelessness - To provide housing for, and to reduce barriers to accessing sustainable recovery programs for, homeless people with impaired mental and substance abuse (and their families)
- Health Information Technology for Behavioral Health Providers - To ensure that health-care provider networks - including prevention specialists and consumer providers - fully participate in general health delivery systems, in the adoption of health information technology.
- Data, Results and Quality - Demonstrate Results - Implement an integrated data strategy that informs policies, measures program impacts, and results in improved quality of services and outcomes for individuals, families and communities.
- Awareness and Public Support - Increase understanding of prevention of mental & substance abuse & amp; care services, to achieve the full potential of prevention, and, to help people recognize and seek help for these health conditions with the same urgency as other health conditions.
Their budget for Fiscal Year 2010 is approximately $ 3.6 billion. It was reauthorized for FY2011. Recently, Budget FY 2016 requested $ 3.7 billion for SAMHSA, a $ 45 million increase over FY 2015.
Controversy
In February 2004, the government allegedly needed a name change from Oregon's mental health conference of "Suicide Prevention among Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Individuals" to "Suicide Prevention in Vulnerable Populations."
In 2002, President George W. Bush founded the New Freedom Commission for Mental Health. The resulting report is intended to provide a platform for the federal government's Mental Health Service program. However, many experts and supporters are very critical of his report, Reaching the Promise: Changing Mental Health Care in America .
See also
- Addiction recovery group
- Self-help group for mental health
- Upgraded Protocols
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
Note
References
- "National Institute of Mental Health: Key Events in NIMH History". National Institutes of Health . Archived from the original on July 5, 2015.
- "Substance Abuse and Administration of Mental Health Services: Justification of Estimates for the Allocation Committee: Fiscal Year 2011" (PDF) . Department of Health and Human Services. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2013.
- Associated Press (February 26, 2005). "The federal agency is stuck in a stir on top of the workshop title". The Advocate . Regent Entertainment Media Inc. Archived from the original on October 17, 2008.
External links
- Official website
- Substance Abuse and Administration of Mental Health Services in the Federal Register
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