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What are National Outcome Measures (NOMs)? What NOMs are collected in MH-CLD?

Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality tracks 10 National Outcome Measures (NOMs). These serve as performance targets for states and federally funded programs for: 

  • substance misuse prevention,
  • mental health promotion, 
  • early intervention, and 
  • treatment services. 

Other clinical measures include: 

  • mental health diagnosis, 
  • Severe Mental Illness (SMI) status,
  • Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED) status, 
  • co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, and 
  • mental health service setting. 

Mental Health Client Level Data (MH-CLD) has data for 5 of the 10 NOMs. Those NOMs are: 

  1. increased access to services, 
  2. increased stability in living conditions, 
  3. reduced use of psychiatric inpatient beds,
  4. increased employment for adults, or to stay in or return to school for children, and
  5. decreased criminal justice involvement. 

The remaining 5 NOMs that CBHSQ collects are in the Uniform Reporting System (URS).