[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 147 (Monday, August 2, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45123-45124]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18879]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 concerning
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opportunity for public comment on proposed collections of information,
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. To request more
information on the proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the
information collection plans, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer
on (240) 276-1243.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of
information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology.
Proposed Project: Cross-Site Evaluation for the Benefit of Homeless
Individuals (GBHI)--NEW
SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is conducting
a cross-site external evaluation of the impact of the Grants for the
Benefit of Homeless Individuals (GBHI) program. GBHI is a Targeted
Capacity Expansion grant program that links substance abuse and mental
health treatment with housing and other needed services and expands and
strengthens these services for people with substance use and co-
occurring mental health problems who are homeless. The national cross-
site evaluation will assess the effectiveness, efficiency and
sustainability of the GBHI project services for client abstinence,
housing stability, homelessness, and related employment, criminal
justice and services outcomes, as well as lessons learned to inform
future efforts.
The CSAT GBHI Client Interview--Baseline and the CSAT GBHI Client
Interview--6-Month Follow-up have been developed to assess program
impact on client outcomes based on review of the literature and
consultation with a panel of national experts, GBHI grantees and
SAMHSA. The CSAT GBHI Client Interview is composed of questions unique
from the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Tool that
measure the outcomes of interest and subpopulations of focus:
homelessness, housing, treatment history, readiness to change, trauma
symptoms, housing and treatment choice, burden and satisfaction,
military service, employment, and criminal justice involvement.
Immediately following the SAMHSA-required administration of the GPRA
CSAT Discretionary Services Client Level Tool, which is completed by
enrolled accepted clients for each grantee project at baseline and 6-
month follow-up, the paper and pencil CSAT GBHI Client Interview will
be administered face-to-face by the GPRA interviewer. Questions
regarding perception of care and treatment coercion will be self-
administered by participating clients and returned to the interviewer
in a sealed envelope to be included in the full package mailed to the
cross-site evaluation coordinating center by the interviewer. Client
participation is voluntary; non-cash incentives will be given at
baseline worth a $10 value and at 6-month follow-up worth a $25 value.
Clients will be assigned unique identifiers by local projects;
responses will be recorded on a fill-in-the-bubble answer sheet, mailed
by the grantee project to the cross-site evaluation coordinating
center, and scanned into a secure dataset. This process will eliminate
the need for data entry, reduce cost and data entry error, and ensure
confidentiality for cross-site data.
The CSAT GBHI Stakeholder Survey will be conducted with GBHI
program stakeholders via a web survey to assess the types of
stakeholder partnerships involved in the GBHI program and the barriers
and strategies developed to overcome barriers to facilitate the
implementation and sustainability of project activities under the GBHI
program. Each survey respondent will be issued a username and password
to login to and complete the secure web-based survey. The web-based
survey format will reduce burden on the respondent and minimize
potential for measurement error.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average Total burden
Instrument/activity Number of responses per Total number burden per hours per
respondents respondent of responses response collection
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CSAT GBHI Client Interview:
Baseline Data Collection.... 5,885 1 5,885 .33 1,942
6-month Follow-up Data 4,708 1 4,708 .40 1,883
Collection (80% of
baseline)..................
CSAT GBHI Stakeholder Survey 648 1 648 .28 181
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Total................... 11,241 .............. 11,241 .............. 4,006
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Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 7-1044, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 AND e-mail a
copy to [email protected]. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: July 27, 2010.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. 2010-18879 Filed 7-30-10; 8:45 am]
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