In the spring of 2004, SAMHSA formed the Planning Group on Iraq Mental Health to help Iraq’s Ministry of Health re-establish behavioral health services in Iraq.  SAMHSA sponsored two Action Planning Conferences on Iraq Mental Health in 2005 and 2006 in Amman, Jordan and Cairo, Egypt bringing together mental health professionals from throughout Iraq to jointly plan behavioral health services, where they identified substance abuse, forensics, services for children and adolescents, and on-going trauma, as the country’s behavioral health priorities.
Beginning in 2008, SAMHSA and Iraq have sponsored the Iraq-SAMHSA Initiative …

Transparency, collaboration and participation were established as the original pillars of Open Government and in 2010 HHS and SAMHSA made great advances in these areas.  To provide some perspective on SAMHSA’s progress over the past year, we thought we would share highlights from a few key projects.
Transparency
SAMHSA conducted comprehensive stakeholder outreach on the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including:

SAMHSA’s Health Reform Webinar Series covering health insurance exchanges, mental health parity, the …