“…Officials told The Washington Post that the contract has been terminated for running the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, a program under the Health and Human Services Department’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)…”
“A message on the database website said that although the current contract has been discontinued, the agency is “very focused on the development and implementation of evidence-based programs in communities across the nation. SAMHSA’s Policy Lab will lead the effort to reconfigure its approach to identifying and disseminating evidence-based practice and programs…”
“Mental health advocates told the newspaper that the website was frozen in September and 90 new programs reviewed since then are not available to the public. They said they rely on the registry to find appropriate and effective therapies….”
Source: Feds suspend evidence-based database for substance abuse, mental health programs – January 11, 2018, By Ilene MacDonald, FierceHealthcare. Read the full article here.
