The NITT-HT national evaluation will
use a pre/post, longitudinal follow-up design with matched
comparison groups where relevant and possible. It will combine
qualitative and quantitative data and methodologies to fully
address SAMHSA’s objectives for the national evaluation and will
include process as well as outcome components. Feedback on the
NITT-HT evaluation design and data collection instruments has been
solicited from internal SAMHSA staff, grantee-level project
directors and local evaluators, and an expert advisory panel. After
careful review, revisions were made to streamline the instruments,
reduce burden, simplify wording, increase variation in response
options, improve coherence of scales for summing, and create
consistency in assessing infrastructure at the learning laboratory
and grantee/state levels.
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USC 520(a) Name of Law: Priority MH Needs of Regional and
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