Reports & Data

The Department of Mental Health prepares and releases a number of reports. The reports that are listed on this page serve to provide information by presenting plans, accomplishments, goals, surveys, and other research results or outcomes. Many of these reports were generated from a 'charge' or motive. If you are looking for informational documents or manuals, please visit the Publications and Resources page.

Reports by:

Adult Mental Health
Child, Adolescent, and Family Mental Health
Vermont State Hospital
Futures Initiative
Legislative Reports

Department-Wide Reports

Steering Team Report to the Joint Legislative Government Accountability Committee - "Challenges For Change: Results For Vermonters - January 5, 2010
Annual Statistical Reports serve as an update on the status of supports and services. In addition to information on supports and services, the report presents information on the pressures that exist on community services, goals accomplished, funding information, and future directions.

State System of Care Plans provide mental health services stakeholders and the public with information about the nature, extent, allocation and timing of services; system-wide planning issues; and an assessment of progress and the system's needs and challenges.

Inpatient data book are reports that provide a statistical overview of the utilization of inpatient facilities by Vermont residents for psychiatric and substance abuse services.

Performance Indicator Project reports are published on a weekly basis that provide information about different aspects of the behavioral healthcare system. These reports (PIPs) investigate such indicators as access to care, practice patterns, and treatment outcomes as well as the concerns of criminal justice involvement, employment, and hospitalization.

Satisfaction (Consumer) Surveys focus on one very important measure of the performance of Vermont's Community, Rehabiliation and Treatment and Child, Adolescent, and Family Mental Health programs, the evaluations of the people who were served.
Building Trauma-Informed Mental Health Service Systems: State Accomplishments, Activities & Resources
NAMI State Survey Findings: Key barriers to Obtaining Mental Health Care & Housing in Vermont
Non-Emergent Involuntary Medication State by State Report
Report on Care Management Clinical Services Design - The Center for Health Policy, Planning & Research, University of New England - May 26, 2009
Pacific Health Policy Group (PHPG) Analysis of Designated Agency Reporting & Documentation Requirements - March 2008
Pacific Health Policy Group (PHPG) System Evaluation and Five-year Projection of Services Demand and Cost Analysis - November 2004
- Executive Summary
- Introduction, and Background
- Service Gaps by Program and Consumer Perspectives
- Best Practices
- Designated Agency Human Resource Issues and Infrastructure Needs
- Regional and National Comparison
- Projections for State Fiscal Years 2006-2011
- Options for Managing System Costs
- Business Planning and Budgeting Process
- Appendices

Adult Mental Health

Eldercare Clinician Program: Findings & Recommendations

Satisfaction (Consumer) Surveys

Performance Indicator Project Reports

State System of Care Plans

HMIS Caseload Overlap with Adult Mental Health and Criminal Justice Caseloads in Rural Vermont, Calendar Year 2008 Presented at New England Regional Homeless Management Information Symposium, UMASS, Boston, May 18, 2009

Implementation of IDDT in Vermont Community Rehabilitation and Treatment Programs Report - October, 2007

Child, Adolescent, and Family Mental Health

Satisfaction (Consumer) Surveys: Child, Adolescent, and Family Mental Health

Performance Indicator Project Reports: Child, Adolescent, and Family

State System of Care Plans: Child, Adolescent, and Family

Department of Mental Health Research and Statistics Presentation and Handouts on Psychotropic Medications for Children and Adolescents

Children's Upstream Services (CUPS) Qualitative Outcome Report Prepared by the CUPS Evaluation Team, this qualitative study identifies factors critical to positive outcomes from the points of view of parents whose families received early childhood mental health services from the VT CUPS initiative. Fourteen parents participated in in-depth, open-ended interviews: six whose families demonstrated postive outcomes by six months of service and eight who did not.

Children's Upstream Services (CUPS) Evaluation Outcome Reports:
One of the reports is a poster presentation and one is a more complete but still brief quantitative summary of the outcomes for a sample of the 2,383 children and families who received CUPS services between January 1999 and June 2003. The outcomes are reported from the parents' perspectives.

Vermont Public Manager Program Consultancy: Needs assessment of Residential Care for Children and Adolescents in Vermont (May 2007) The Case Review Committee (CRC), which is a subcommittee of the State Interagency Team (SIT), evaluates and approves all referrals for children and adolescents with emotional and/or behavioral challenges for residential treatment programs throughout the state when less restrictive alternatives are not appropriate. In 2006, the CRC began to notice gaps in services and trends that led to increasing numbers of children being placed on lengthy residential waiting lists and/or sent out-of-state for treatment. This prompted the CRC to approach the Vermont Public Managers Consultation group to assist in uncovering the reasons why these gaps in Vermont’s residential programs were occurring.

Success Beyond Six Minimum Standards for Behavior Interventionists - This document is in response to the Report to Vermont House Committees on Education and on Human Services and Vermont Senate Committees on Education and on Health and Welfare From The Agency of Human Services and the Department of Education Recommendations and Implementation Plan on Success Beyond Six.

The Effects of Psychological Trauma on Children and Adolescents (June 30, 2005)
A report by Kathleen J. Moroz, DSW, LICSW prepared for the Vermont Agency of Human Services, Department of Health, Division of Mental Health, Child, Adolescent and Family Unit. This report includes a definition and description of trauma in children, long-term effects of trauma, relationship between trauma and attachment, data of Vermont children effected by trauma, national trends and best-practices in treating trauma, and specific recommendations to improve Vermont's system of care for children who have experienced trauma.

Conduct Disorder: Treatment Recommendations for Vermont Youth
A new mini-white paper from the State Interagency Team that explains the term “conduct disorder,” describes research findings about best practice for treatment, and provides guidelines for treatment teams.