Billing Code: 4162-20
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Joint Meeting of the National Advisory Councils
AGENCY: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the combined (joint) meeting on August 28,
2024, of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA)
national advisory councils: the SAMHSA National Advisory Council (NAC), the Center
for Mental Health Services NAC, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention NAC, the
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment NAC; and the two SAMHSA advisory
committees: Advisory Committee for Women’s Services (ACWS) and the Tribal
Technical Advisory Committee (TTAC).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The meeting will include remarks from the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and
Substance Use; follow up from the JNAC meeting of February 28, 2024; updates from
the individual council meetings of August 27, 2024; presentations and discussions on the
following topics: Youth Engagement Efforts, Criminal Justice, Suicide Prevention,
general Council discussion and Public Comments.
The meeting is open to the public and will be held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building,
200 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, DC. 20201, Room 505A. Attendance by the
public will be limited to space availability. Interested persons may present data,
information, or views orally or in writing, on issues pending before the Council. Written
submissions should be forwarded to the contact person by August 21, 2024. Oral
presentations from the public will be scheduled at the conclusion of the meeting.
Individuals interested in making oral presentations must notify the contact by August 21,

2024. Up to three minutes will be allotted for each presentation, as time permits.
The meeting may be accessed via telephone and remotely via Zoom platform and callers
must register. To attend on site, obtain the call-in number, access code, and/or web access
link; submit written or brief oral comments; or request special accommodations for
persons with disabilities, please register on-line at: https://snacregister.samhsa.gov, or
communicate with SAMHSA’s Committee Management Officer, Carlos Castillo (see
contact information below).
Meeting agenda with call-in information will be posted before the meeting, and
additional information may be obtained by accessing the SAMHSA advisory councils
webpage: https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/advisory-councils .
Council Names:

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration National Advisory Council
Center for Mental Health Services National Advisory
Council
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention National Advisory
Council
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment National Advisory
Council
Advisory Committee for Women’s Services
Tribal Technical Advisory Committee

Date/Time/Type:

August 28, 2024, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT, Open

Place:

200 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20201,
Room 505A

Contact:

Carlos Castillo
Committee Management Officer
5600 Fishers Lane

Rockville, Maryland 20857 (mail)
Telephone: (240) 276-2787
E-mail: carlos.castillo@samhsa.hhs.gov
SAMHSA’s National Advisory Councils were established to advise the Secretary,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); the Assistant Secretary for Mental
Health and Substance Use, SAMHSA; and SAMHSA’s Center Directors concerning
matters relating to the activities carried out by and through the Centers and the policies
respecting such activities.
Under section 501 of the Public Health Service Act, the ACWS is statutorily mandated to
advise the SAMHSA Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use and the
Associate Administrator for Women’s Services on appropriate activities to be undertaken
by SAMHSA and its Centers with respect to women’s substance abuse and mental health
services.
Pursuant to Presidential Executive Order No. 13175, November 6, 2000, and the
Presidential Memorandum of September 23, 2004, SAMHSA established the TTAC for
working with Federally recognized Tribes to enhance the government-to-government
relationship, and honor Federal trust responsibilities and obligations to Tribes and
American Indian and Alaska Natives. The SAMHSA TTAC serves as an advisory body
to SAMHSA.
Authority: Public Law 92-463.
Dated: July 8, 2024.
Carlos Castillo,
Committee Management Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 2024-15311 Filed: 7/11/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 7/12/2024]