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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 129 / Tuesday, July 7, 2015 / Notices
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment; Notice of Meeting
Pursuant to Public Law 92–463,
notice is hereby given that the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s)
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
(CSAT) National Advisory Council will
meet on July 16, 2015, from 3:00 p.m.–
4:00 p.m. (EDT). The meeting will be
closed to the public.
The meeting will include discussion
and evaluation of grant applications
reviewed by Initial Review Groups, and
involve an examination of confidential
financial and business information as
well as personal information concerning
the applicants. Therefore, the meeting
will be closed to the public, as
determined by the SAMHSA
Administrator, in accordance with Title
5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and (6) and (c)(9)(B)
and 5 U.S.C. App. 2, Section 10(d).
The meeting will be held virtually.
Meeting information and a roster of
Council members may be obtained
either by accessing the SAMHSA
Council Web site at: https://
www.samhsa.gov/about-us/advisorycouncils/csat-national-advisory-council
or by contacting LCDR Holly Berilla.
Council Name: SAMHSA’s Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment; National
Advisory Council.
Date/Time/Type: July 16, 2015, 3:00 p.m.–
4:00 p.m. EDT, Closed.
Place: Virtual—Teleconference.
Contact: LCDR Holly Berilla, Designated
Federal Official, CSAT National Advisory
Council, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville,
Maryland 20857 (mail), Telephone: (240)
276–1252, Fax: (240) 276–2252, Email:
holly.berilla@samhsa.hhs.gov.
Summer King,
Statistician, SAMHSA.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health
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National Registry of Evidence-Based
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Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), HHS.
ACTION: Notice regarding SAMHSA’s
NREPP: Redesign of NREPP.
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The mission of SAMHSA is to
reduce the impact of substance abuse
and mental illness on America’s
communities. Established in 1992, the
agency was directed by Congress to
target effective substance abuse and
mental health services to the people
most in need, and to translate research
in these areas more effectively and more
rapidly into the general health care
system. NREPP is a key public resource
SAMHSA has developed to help meet
this directive. This notice announces
the redesign of NREPP to better align the
registry with the standards and
processes of other evidence-based
repositories. A re-launch of the Web site
with revised content is anticipated in
late fall/early winter 2015.
The notice explains the changes in
how programs and practices will be
identified for NREPP, how submissions
will be screened and reviewed, and
provides guidance on accessing updated
information on the NREPP site.
Potential applicants should be aware
that this notice includes updated
information relating to the eligibility of
interventions for inclusion in NREPP
and changes in the program and practice
review process that supersedes guidance
provided in earlier Federal Register
notices.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carter Roeber, Ph.D., Social Science
Analyst, Center for Behavioral Health
Statistics and Quality, SAMHSA, 1
Choke Cherry Road, Room 2–1050,
Rockville, MD 20857, telephone 240–
276–1488.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Advancing Evidence-Based Programs
and Practices Through Improved
Decision Support Tools:
Reconceptualizing NREPP
Introduction
SAMHSA’s NREPP is an evidencebased repository and review system
designed to provide the public with
reliable information about behavioral
health interventions in the areas of
mental health and substance abuse.
Programs and practices that are
accepted for inclusion in NREPP
undergo a review process that provides
information on the quality of research
and the magnitude and direction of
program or practice impact on
individual outcomes. Materials for
dissemination are reviewed to
determine the type and extent of
information available to support
implementation. The results of these
reviews are published on the NREPP
Web site (https://nrepp.samhsa.gov).
It should be noted that inclusion in
NREPP indicates that some, but not
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necessarily all, of the evidence for a
program or practice has been reviewed.
In some cases, the quality of the
research supporting the program or
practice may have been determined to
be poor or insufficient to earn a rating.
Inclusion in NREPP does not constitute
endorsement of an intervention as
effective by SAMHSA. Moreover, since
NREPP has not reviewed all behavioral
health interventions, the use of NREPP
as an exclusive or exhaustive list of
interventions is not appropriate.
Policymakers and funders in particular
are discouraged from limiting providers
and/or potential grantees to selecting
exclusively from among NREPP
interventions and from funding NREPP
interventions regardless of the ratings
the interventions receive.
This notice announces changes to (1)
the process for identifying new
programs and practices for NREPP
review, (2) the process for announcing
open submission periods, (3) the
minimum requirements to be
considered for NREPP review, and (4)
the review process. This notice also
announces the intent to re-review
currently posted NREPP programs and
practices to comport with new review
criteria and ratings. The re-review of
programs and practices currently posted
will take place over the course of the
next several years, depending on
available resources. A re-launch of the
NREPP Web site will take place in
phases and the first phase is planned for
late fall/early winter of 2015.
Identifying New Programs and
Practices for NREPP
Open submissions periods, during
which applicants may submit materials
for review, will continue to be used to
identify new programs and practices for
review (see below). Programs and
practices addressing specific SAMHSA
priorities may also be identified by
SAMHSA or through environmental
scans (including literature reviews,
focus groups, public input, and
interviews), as time and resources
permit. Programs and practices related
to priority areas may be reviewed before
programs and practices identified
through the open submission period.
SAMHSA will be consulting with
subject matter experts and leadership in
underserved groups and populations,
including American Indian/Alaska
Native Tribes, regarding ways to
incorporate traditional and culturallyspecific interventions into NREPP, in
order to better meet the needs of groups
whose efforts to promote behavioral
health may not have not been routinely
evaluated. Innovative, but perhaps less
rigorously tested, programs and
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment; Notice of Meeting
Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given that the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA's)
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) National Advisory Council
will meet on July 16, 2015, from 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (EDT). The meeting
will be closed to the public.
The meeting will include discussion and evaluation of grant
applications reviewed by Initial Review Groups, and involve an
examination of confidential financial and business information as well
as personal information concerning the applicants. Therefore, the
meeting will be closed to the public, as determined by the SAMHSA
Administrator, in accordance with Title 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and (6) and
(c)(9)(B) and 5 U.S.C. App. 2, Section 10(d).
The meeting will be held virtually. Meeting information and a
roster of Council members may be obtained either by accessing the
SAMHSA Council Web site at: https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/advisory-councils/csat-national-advisory-council or by contacting LCDR Holly
Berilla.
Council Name: SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment;
National Advisory Council.
Date/Time/Type: July 16, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. EDT, Closed.
Place: Virtual--Teleconference.
Contact: LCDR Holly Berilla, Designated Federal Official, CSAT
National Advisory Council, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, Maryland
20857 (mail), Telephone: (240) 276-1252, Fax: (240) 276-2252, Email:
holly.berilla@samhsa.hhs.gov.
Summer King,
Statistician, SAMHSA.
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