National DIG Meeting Reports

2010 National Data Infrastructure Grant (DIG) Meeting Reports

The 2010 National Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grant Meeting was held June 23-25th 2010, immediately following the National Mental Health Block Grant and Data Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C. This was the third year we've held a poster session that allows states to showcase their work; we had our biggest turnout yet with 14 states presenting 19 posters. A team of judges reviewed the poster submissions and recognized the outstanding effort states put forth in their poster submissions. This year we had a solo first-place winner, and a three-way tie for second. This year's winners are:

• First Place:
  • Vermont: Employment of Adults with Serious Mental Illness in Vermont. Presented by John Pandiani, Ph.D., Barbara Carroll, Ph.D., and Walter Ochs.
• Second Place:
  • Illinois: Tools of the Trade: Dashboards for Decision Support. Presented by Dorothy Elfring, M.P.H., and Mary Smith, Ph.D.
  • Maine: Examining Relationships between Mental Health and Physical Health: An Integrated Analysis of the Maine BRFSS. Presented by: Jay Yoe, Ph.D., Elsie Freeman, M.D., M.P.H., Karen Glew, M.P.S.A., and Dina Blanchard.
  • Oklahoma: Using Data to Justify Effective Services when Budgets Fall: Mental Health Court Outcomes. Presented by: David Wright, Ph.D., Nancy Warren, Steve Davis, Ph.D., and Tracy Leeper.

We would like to extend a special thank you to all of those who participated in the poster session, as well as the DIG Annual Meeting, for making this year's conference a great success. Select presentations from the DIG Annual Meeting, as well as relevant presentations from the National Mental Health Block Grant and Data Conference, are available below. If you do not have Adobe Reader please download it here.

2009 National Data Infrastructure Grant (DIG) Meeting Reports

The 2009 National Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grant Meeting was held April 16th and 17th at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C. This year we continued the tradition of the poster session to provide states the opportunity to showcase their work on the URS, NOMS, or PHQ-8 data. A team of judges reviewed all of the poster presentations and recognized the outstanding efforts of the top three states. The winners of the 2009 session are:

• First Place: Oklahoma, presented by Mark Reynolds and Tracy Leeper - Use of Effective Methods to Present Data to Stakeholders
• Second Place: Vermont, presented by John Pandiani - Using Brief Reports to Share Frequent Measurement of URS/NOMs Indicators
• Third Place: Oklahoma, presented by Phyllis Abbott, Shailendra Kumar, and Mark Reynolds - Getting the Biggest Bang out of State Treatment Dollars

2008 National Data Infrastructure Grant (DIG) Meeting Reports

The 2008 National Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grant Meeting was held February 13th and 14th at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. This year a poster session was added to the agenda to provide states the opportunity to showcase their work on the URS, NOMS, or PHQ-8 data. A team of judges reviewed all of the poster presentations and recognized the outstanding efforts of the top three states. The winners of the 2008 session are:

• First Place: North Carolina, presented by Tom Palombo and Becky Ebron: Data Informed Decision Making in North Carolina
• Second Place: Hawaii, presented by Philippe Gross and Florentina Salvail: Depression and Anxiety Among Adults in Hawai'i: A Focus on Gender and Ethnicity
• Third Place: Massachusetts, presented by Beth Lucas and Connie Maranto: Collaborating for Improvement: The Massachusetts Readmission Learning Collaborative