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Appendix C: Summary of Committee Recommendations in Report 1
Pages 127-134

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From page 127...
... Appendix C Summary of Committee Recommendations in Report 1 This appendix reprints, in its entirety, the summary from the first report in this series (NASEM, 2020b)
From page 128...
... Congress and commissioned by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
From page 129...
... With technical assistance on evidence-based practices offered by SAMHSA, grantees should include information about the char acteristics of the programs providing treatment and the evidence on which their treatment is based. Recommendation 2-3: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser vices Administration should collect information that would provide a full understanding of the opioid use disorder treatment programs to which patients are referred, focusing on whether the treatments delivered are evidence based.
From page 130...
... Recommendation 2-4: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser vices Administration should provide support to grantees to engage survivors of overdose in a full range of harm-reduction services (including syringe services programs and naloxone distribution ser vices) and collect data on how many of these individuals end up engaging in harm-reduction services (e.g., number of individuals receiving a naloxone kit following an overdose event)
From page 131...
... These data should be used by grantees to better understand and treat beneficiaries of the grant and interpret the success of their programs and by SAMHSA to tailor future grant funding involving those with a history of exposure to traumatic events and history of PTSD diagnosis. Recommendation 3-2: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration should amend data-collection and report
From page 132...
... Recommendation 3-4: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser vices Administration should implement a validated and psychometri cally sound tool for assessing recovery among clients of its grant programs, as the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Government Performance Results and Modernization Act tool does not elicit ade quate data on the process of recovery. Recommendation 3-5: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser vices Administration should include measurements about uninten tional and intentional overdose events in its grant reporting tools (e.g., number of events in a given period, outcome of overdose events, first or non-first overdose event)
From page 133...
... This could include surveys of stakeholders impacted by the grant or use of administrative data to determine changes made at the local and state levels in response to grantee activities. Recommendation 3-12: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration should support grantees in measuring and reporting how peer recovery services have impacted the overall recovery process for clients served by the Building Communities of Recovery grant.
From page 134...
... as well as outcomes of child delivery. • The number and percent increase in number of child protective services referrals to a PPW treatment case manager.


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