Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
March 23, 2006, Vol. 06-31

Webchat to Discuss Changes to National Registry fo Evidence-Based Programs

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will host a web chat to answer questions about the March 14 Federal Register notice on changes to the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs (NREPP).

SAMHSA expects the new NREPP to serve as a "decision support system" to help state and community-based organizations select programs and practices that meet their needs. The new protocols and procedures outlined in the notice will help reduce the significant lag-time between the generation of new scientific knowledge and its application by community-based prevention and treatment programs and providers.

Media and other interested parties are invited to participate.

WHO: Kevin Hennessy, Ph.D.
Science to Service Coordinator, SAMHSA

WHEN: Friday, March 24, 2006
1:00 - 2:00pm

Instructions for Participation:

. Visit the following URL: http://chat.shs.net to access the web chat interface; . Click on "Enter Now"; . Type in a username. This username will uniquely identify you in the chat
room;
. Select either Java Chat or HTML chat. This chat screen is best viewed in
JAVA, however you may also use HTML; . Click "Enter Now".

Submitting a question:
. Type in your question at the bottom of your chat screen . Click "Send to Moderator". Your question will be sent to the moderator and
screened before it gets posted to the chat room.
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The Center for Mental Health Services is a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services.