Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
September 13, 2006, Vol. 07-138

Newsletter Focuses on Resources for Measuring Outcomes

With accountability pressures and growing concerns about quality of services, managers, practitioners, and system planners need resources to measure the outcomes of the services they provide and should be aware of the best efforts to measure client outcomes and services effectiveness.

The latest issue of the Recovery and Rehabilitation Newsletter produced by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University highlights resources for program administrators, managers, policy makers, and others about the implementation and use of outcome measurement. Outcome measures and instruments developed as part of multi-site studies sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are described; and can serve as a valuable resource in planning an evaluation or quality assurance initiative. Also included is a set of considerations when planning and conducting a program outcome evaluation.

The newsletter is available as a free download at http://www.bu.edu/cpr/index.shtml.

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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.