Between Cycles N-SSATS Advance Letter

Attachment B12- Between Cycles N-SSATS (N-SSATS BC) Advance Letter

[MONTH,] 2019

Dear [Facility Director] [or Current Facility Director]
Your facility has been approved by your State Substance Abuse Agency to be listed in the
Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator maintained by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA). The newly updated Locator is an online directory that contains
listings for both substance abuse treatment facilities and mental health treatment facilities, and can be
found at https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov. SAMHSA maintains the Locator as a public service for
persons seeking treatment for themselves or family members. There is no charge for being listed in the
Locator.
To be listed in the Locator, a substance abuse treatment facility must meet two requirements:
1. The facility must respond to SAMHSA’s annual survey: the National Survey of Substance
Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), and
2. The facility must be approved for inclusion by their State Substance Abuse Agency. As noted
above, this condition has already been met.
Although data collection for the next N-SSATS is not scheduled to begin until March 2020, facilities that
are approved in the interim can be quickly added to the Locator by answering a brief set of questions
about the types of treatment and services they offer.
To answer this brief set of questions please follow the steps listed below:
1. Log onto: https://minisurvey.nssats.com/
2. The utility will ask for a USER ID and PASSWORD. The unique USER ID and
PASSWORD assigned to this facility are:
USER ID:
[Web User Name]
PASSWORD: [Web Password]
The survey should be completed by you or another person knowledgeable about this facility's daily
operations. If you have any questions about the survey, please feel free to call the N-SSATS helpline at
1-888-324-8337, Monday through Friday between 8 am and 8 pm (ET), or send an email
to [email protected].
Sincerely,

Cathie Alderks, Ph.D.
Project Officer
Behavioral Health Services Information System
Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality
SAMHSA