Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Planning for Program Changes and Future Workforce Needs Is Incomplete

June 2004 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Planning for Program Changes and Future Workforce Needs Is Incomplete SAMHSA has not completed key planning efforts to ensure that it can effectively manage its programs. The agency has operated without a strategic plan since October 2002, and although SAMHSA officials are drafting a plan, they do not know when it will be completed. SAMHSA developed long-term goals and a set of priority issues that provide some guidance for the agency's activities, but they are not a substitute for a strategic plan. In particular, they do not identify the . . .