[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 242 (Friday, December 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79011-79012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-31721]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of information
collection requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.
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 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.
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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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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by January 18, 2011 to: SAMHSA
Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503; due to potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing of mail
sent through the U.S. Postal Service, respondents are encouraged to
submit comments by fax to: 202-395-5806.
Dated: December 13, 2010.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Management, Technology and Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-31721 Filed 12-16-10; 8:45 am]
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