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Mathematica to Administer the National Mental Health Services Survey

PRINCETON, N.J. (November 20, 2008)—Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million contract to conduct the 2010 National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS) for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The survey, formerly named the National Survey of Mental Health Treatment Facilities, collects data on the types of services and special programs offered, types of payments accepted, and number of clients being served by the mental health services industry.

The three-year contract with SAMHSA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, includes one base year and two optional years. During the base year, Mathematica will enhance the sample frame, design the questionnaire, develop the survey applications, and create an instruction manual of the procedures and systems to be used for the survey throughout the three-year contract.

If awarded, the second year will focus on collecting data and increasing the survey response rate. Data collected in 2010 will be used by policymakers at all levels as they make decisions about mental health treatment needs, as well as to update SAMHSA’s online Mental Health Services Locator.

The third year will include data analysis and reports. Updates to the database and the Mental Health Services Locator will take place throughout the contract.

Barbara Rogers, a senior survey researcher at Mathematica, is directing the project. Survey researcher Kristen Purcell is the survey director.

Mathematica, a nonpartisan research firm, conducts high quality, objective policy research and surveys to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Washington, D.C., Cambridge, Mass., and Ann Arbor, Mich., has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs in the U.S.