N-SSATS 2021 Between Cycles Advance Letter

Attachment B14  Between Cycles N-SSATS (N-SSATS BC) Advance Letter

[MONTH,] 2021

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 2021, 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,

Nichele C. Waller

Contracting Officer’s Representative

Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality

SAMHSA