[Federal Register: December 17, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 242)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-06-04]

 
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 498-1210. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax 
to (202) 395-6974. Written comments should be received within 30 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and 
Leadership through Alliances (DELTA)--New--National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).
    Domestic violence is a large, potentially preventable source of 
physical and emotional harm for women, children, and families. One 
promising approach to domestic violence prevention is the coordinated 
community response (CCR) model wherein multiple agencies within a 
community come together to work collectively on domestic violence 
issues. However, many CCRs formed to date focus on responding to, 
rather than preventing acts of violence. CDC is launching the Domestic 
Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership through Alliances 
(DELTA) demonstration program to stimulate the development of 
prevention-focused programs and diffuse current programs into the 
existing operations of CCRs, using fourteen state domestic violence 
coalitions as intermediaries.
    This project will be conducted through a policy research contract. 
First there will be an identification and description of each state's 
CCR structures and operations, then an evaluation of the DELTA 
Program's success in developing and disseminating prevention 
enhancements to CCRs. The contractor will use an environmental scan to 
identify the full population of CCRs in each state, as well as profile 
the organizational, political, and economic landscape in which the CCRs 
operate. This information will assist CDC and the state coalitions in 
developing prevention enhancements that are responsive to the 
capacities and circumstances of local CCRs while at the same time 
providing baseline measures to facilitate and evaluate the DELTA 
program. The DELTA program evaluation will then use these baseline 
measures, together with additional data collected each year throughout 
program implementation to assess how well the program performs in 
strengthening collaborative activity across domestic violence programs, 
developing prevention enhancements and incorporating them into current 
CCR operations, and institutionalizing organizational changes that will 
sustain primary prevention as part of the everyday workings of state 
coalitions and CCRs.
    The fourteen state coalitions that are DELTA grantees will be 
interviewed every six months by the contractor, and an annual survey of 
all local CCRs in the fourteen DELTA states will also be conducted. 
Once the initial data collection is completed, the contractor will also 
conduct a one-time survey of state domestic violence coalitions and up 
to ten other organizations in each of the 36 non-DELTA states. A 
separate OMB submission will be prepared for this phase. The estimated 
annualized burden is 400 hours for this data collection.

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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden/
                Information collection instrument                    Number of       response/     response  (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent        hours)
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Mail Survey of CCRs in DELTA States.............................             448               1           35/60
Telephone Interviews of DELTA Grantees..........................              28               2               2
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    Dated: December 5, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-31056 Filed 12-16-03; 8:45 am]

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