In recognition of World Mental Health Day on October 10th, a new photo exhibit by people with mental illnesses is available for viewing in SAMHSA’s History Room located on the lobby level of 1 Choke Cherry Road, Gaithersburg, MD. You can also view the images on SAMHSA’s Flickr page.
The exhibit – which will become part of SAMHSA’s permanent display – was provided by Boston University’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, a research and training center co-funded by SAMHSA and the Dept of Education’s National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research to …

Participation, collaboration and transparency are the cornerstones of the Open Government Initiative. Partnerships, particularly those that leverage the inherent strengths of public and private organizations, serve as a great example of how open government efforts can result in products and services that deliver tremendous benefit to the public.  This past June, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Institute of Medicine held the second annual Health Data Initiative Forum. This event highlighted many innovative uses of government data and clearly showed the value of combining government data and …