# 2025-20747: SAMHSA Submits Mental Health Data Forms for Approval

2025-20747, Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, is a Federal Register notice from Health and Human Services Department, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration published 2025-11-24, effective 2025-11-24 (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20747
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 52987
- Published: 2025-11-24
- Effective: 2025-11-24
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

SAMHSA Submits Mental Health Data Forms for Approval

## Summary

SAMHSA is renewing its data collection toolkit for the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program, which helps states, territories, and tribes support disaster survivors with counseling and education. This update affects communities recovering from disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, ensuring better tracking of services without adding extra costs or delays. The program keeps helping millions bounce back after tough times with quick, caring support.

## Effects PRIA read

- Crisis Counseling Toolkit Reinstated: benefit, medium. SAMHSA is renewing the Data Resource Toolkit used for the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CCP), which provides supplemental funding to states, territories, and tribes after a presidentially declared major disaster. The CCP has provided services to millions over more than 40 years…
- Removal of Sensitive Questions: benefit, low. The revised forms remove the question about recent immigration and remove the question about suicidal ideation from the Assessment and Referral Tools. The Participant Feedback Survey now explicitly states the form is voluntary, allows respondents to skip questions, and adds a "prefer not to answer"…
- Form Updates for Data Consistency: benefit, medium. The Individual Encounter Log, Group Encounter Log, and ARTs were updated to align race and ethnicity collection with updated OMB guidance, to align sex collection with White House guidance, and to update adult age collection to SAMHSA conventions. The Child/Youth ART’s PTSD assessment was updated t…
- New Referral Options and Wording Changes: benefit, low. Forms add a separate referral option for "FEMA-funded programs," change wording from "self-help groups" to "self-help or support groups," add "stress management" examples, and in Child/Youth ART use the terms "caregiver" and "child or youth." Assessment tools are typically used beginning 3 months a…
- Estimated Time Burden on Providers: cost, medium. SAMHSA estimates total annualized burden of 32,784 hours across an estimated 8,000 respondents and 227,200 total responses for the toolkit instruments. Example instrument estimates include 160,000 individual encounter responses (0.13 hours each) and 41,600 weekly tally responses (0.20 hours each).
- National Database Enables Program Reports: benefit, low. Data from the toolkit are entered via mobile or paper forms and uploaded to a national database that links data collected across CCPs. This linked database allows SAMHSA CMHS and FEMA to produce summary reports of services provided across all funded programs.

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- [2026-20651](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-20651): Agency Information Collection Activities Comment Request, 2026-10-08
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- [2026-19079](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-19079): Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 2026-09-17
- [2026-17852](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-17852): Current List of HHS-Certified Laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities Which Meet Minimum Standards To Engage in Urine and…, 2026-09-01
- [2026-16190](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-16190): Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 2026-08-10
- [2026-15637](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15637): Current List of HHS-Certified Laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities Which Meet Minimum Standards To Engage in Urine and…, 2026-08-03

## Sources
- [2025-20747 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20747/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-for-omb-review-comment-request)
- [2025-20747 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-24/pdf/2025-20747.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20747 (as of 2026-06-08).