ABOUT SDICC
NRI operates the State Data Infrastructure Coordinating Center (SDICC) that
collaborates with the CMHS, and the states to improve the use of mental health performance
indicators, enhance state information systems capacities, and facilitate reporting
on performance indicators and federal mental health block grant information
to CMHS.
Through the SDICC, NRI staff work with data and
planning staff in each of the 55 states and territories
and with CMHS to compile and generate reports on
mental health performance measures. The SDICC works
with CMHS and states to develop operational definitions,
and reporting guidelines as a means to compile, edit,
and report the CMHS Uniform Reporting System (URS).
The URS data tables and performance measures were
derived from the NASMHPD Framework of Performance
Measures and many were developed and tested in the
CMHS-funded 16 State Performance Indicator Study.
The URS consists of standardized tables that SMHAs
submit each December to the NRI and CMHS. These tables
incorporate indicators such as penetration rates,
use of state hospitals, length of stay, employment,
homelessness, major funding sources of services,
evidence-based services, readmissions to state hospitals,
living situations, criminal justice involvement, and
school participation/performance.
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