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-funded16 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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