Join us this Friday for the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) National Advisory Council (NAC) meeting. The webcast will be broadcast from 11:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. EST. Advanced registration is not required. Please note the conference number and audience passcode to access the meeting. You also may dial in for audio-only access to the webcast. Time will be allotted after the meeting for public comment.
Access the Webcast on Friday
August 24, 2012 | 11:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Conference number: PW9819021
Audience passcode: CSAUNDERS
Audio only: 800-369-1603
Agenda items for Friday’s meeting include:

CMHS Director’s Report
Implementing …

Cross Posted from HealthData.gov Blog: Steven Randazzo, HHS Innovation Team, Dept. of Health and Human Services
On August 9 – 10, 2012 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) held its first ever Behavioral Health Data Users Conference and it was awesome!  Over two days, SAMHSA brought data owners and users together in one place to better explore the treasure trove of behavioral health data being produced by SAMHSA.
Unlike other conferences, the SAMHSA Behavioral Health Data Users Conference not only convened people to provide an overview of what type of data …

Written By: Andrew Wilson, Office of Communications, SAMHSA
The SAMHSA team supporting Project Evolve has been working hard over the past few months to make improvements to the website. Many of these improvements are still “behind-the-scenes,” but enhancements are underway to both the technical infrastructure underpinning the site and to how the information is organized and presented.
Last fall, the inaugural Project Evolve blog post invited readers to help us evaluate a new way to organize information on the website. Instead of structuring the site around SAMHSA’s organizational layout, we began moving …

You are invited to attend SAMHSA’s three August advisory council meetings. All meetings are open to the public and will be streamed live via webcast.
Pre-registration to attend the meetings is not required. Please bookmark the links below for use the day of the webcast; they will not be live until then. Also, please note there have been some changes to schedule, agenda items, and the webcast links.
SAMHSA’s Advisory Committee for Women’s Services, Kana Enomoto, Principal Deputy Administrator, Chair
August 8, 2012 | 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Agenda

Updates from the SAMHSA Associate …