SAMHSA-wide efforts to improve data quality and availability are critical for demonstrating the effectiveness of behavioral health prevention and treatment programs. Datacorp has demonstrated that clean, standardized data are more reliable and produce superior results, especially for complicated analyses, and for conducting cross-site evaluations. An investment and commitment to data management has the potential to improve outcomes monitoring, decrease results dissemination time, increase our evidenced-based knowledge, and support programmatic decision-making.