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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
face by the GPRA interviewer.
Questions regarding perception of care
and treatment coercion will be selfadministered 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 webbased survey. The web-based survey
format will reduce burden on the
respondent and minimize potential for
measurement error.
housing and other needed services and
expands and strengthens these services
for people with substance use and cooccurring 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-
ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Instrument/activity
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total number
of responses
Average
burden per
response
Total burden
hours per
collection
CSAT GBHI Client Interview:
Baseline Data Collection ..............................................
6-month Follow-up Data Collection (80% of baseline)
CSAT GBHI Stakeholder Survey ..................................
5,885
4,708
648
1
1
1
5,885
4,708
648
.33
.40
.28
1,942
1,883
181
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 summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov.
Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: July 27, 2010.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Program Services.
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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
opportunity for public comment on
proposed collections of information, the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
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Services Administration 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
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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: Program Evaluation
for Assertive Adolescent & Family
Treatment (AAFT) Program—NEW
The Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration’s
(SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment (CSAT) has implemented the
Assertive Adolescent and Family
Treatment (AAFT) program to promote
the adoption of evidence-based
practices by community providers in the
area of adolescent substance use
treatment. The AAFT program provides
evidence-based substance use services
to adolescents and their families, as well
as to transition-age youth (TAY),
caregivers, and their families/mentors.
This program is based on evidence that
families/caregivers are an integral part
of the treatment process and their
inclusion in services increases the
likelihood of successful treatment and
reintegration of adolescents/TAYs into
their communities following treatment.
AAFT requires grantees to implement
the Adolescent Community
Reinforcement Approach (A–CRA)
coupled with Assertive Continuing Care
(ACC) to provide treatment that is
context-specific, family-centered, and
community-based. Grantees are also
required to use the Global Appraisal of
Individual Needs (GAIN) as the
common assessment instrument across
programs to improve intake assessment,
clinical interpretation, monitoring, and
data management. The GAIN is used for
diagnosis and to assist in placement,
treatment planning, local evaluation,
and continuous quality improvement for
programs. In supporting AAFT and to
ensure that each implementation
activity required by AAFT is
implemented well and with fidelity,
CSAT has provided, through Chestnut
Health Systems, a package of
implementation supports, including
manual-assisted training in and
certification for clinical staff on A–CRA
and ACC, training/certification in GAIN,
monitoring/coaching/mentoring/support
for clinicians and supervisors,
implementation calls and monthly
progress reports, and topical
workgroups that share ideas and
resources among grantees. The
overarching objective of the multi-site,
Assertive Adolescent and Family
Treatment (AAFT) process and outcome
evaluation is to assess and document
the process of implementation in the
2009 cohort of AAFT grantees and to
explore the role that implementation
supports play in how well these
programs evolve.
CSAT is requesting approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to implement three versions of a
data collection document, the AAFT
Implementation Survey, to gather
longitudinal data (end of each of 3
project years) from a range of grantee
personnel to evaluate the
implementation, expansion, and
sustainability of adolescent substance
use services developed under the AAFT
program.
The current proposal requests
implementing the AAFT
Implementation Surveys to collect
information in the following areas:
a. Attitudes toward evidence-based
practices generally, and AAFT model
components in particular (e.g., attitudes
toward using a treatment manual,
achieving certification);
b. Grantee involvement with the
implementation supports provided by
Chestnut Health Systems and their
reactions to those implementation
supports;
c. Perceived changes in clinical
practice/behavior indicating movement
toward full A–CRA/ACC
implementation;
d. Perceived barriers encountered in
implementation and compensatory
strategies;
e. Report on project progress,
including activities related to the AAFT
program, changes to program plans,
project accomplishments, and efforts to
plan for sustainability of the program.
This information would be collected
annually, at the end of each project year.
The surveys three versions are tailored
to address the respondents’ roles in the
grant (Principal Investigator/Program
Director, Clinical Supervisor/Clinician,
and Evaluator/Data Manager). Staffing
patterns at each grantee site vary greatly;
therefore, the estimate includes the total
number of respondents for each category
based on initial grantee proposals. The
goal is to conduct surveys with
approximately 21 administrators, 56
clinical staff, and 28 evaluators/data
managers. The total number of
respondents—105 individuals—
represent project staff at three distinct
levels across 14 grantee sites.
The burden estimate for completing
the Annual Program Survey is as
follows:
ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN—SUMMARY TABLE
Data collection activity
Number of
respondents 1
Responses
per
respondent 2
Total
responses
Average hours
per response
Total hour
burden
Wage rate
(hourly)
Total hour cost
($)
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AAFT Implementation
Survey—Principal
Investigator/Program Director ..........
AAFT Implementation
Survey—Clinical Supervisor/Clinician ....
AAFT Implementation
Survey—Evaluator/
Data Manager .........
Annual Total ........
21
1
21
0.75
15.75
50
787.50
56
1
56
0.75
42
26
1092.00
28
1
28
0.75
21
15
315.00
105
........................
105
........................
78.75
........................
2,194.50
1 Represents
project staff at three distinct levels—administrators, clinical staff, evaluators—across 14 grantee sites. Number of respondents is
an average of respondents per role based on staffing patterns described in grantee proposals.
2 The AAFT Implementation Survey will be completed once by respondents at all 14 sites at the end of each project year.
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Send comments to Summer King,
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
OAS, Room 7–1044, 1 Choke Cherry
Road, Rockville, MD 20857. Written
comments should be received by
October 1, 2010.
Dated: July 27, 2010.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Program Services.
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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
Reworded Topics/Questions
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.
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Project: Assessment of the Town Hall
Meetings on Underage Drinking
Prevention—Revision
The Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration’s
(SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention (CSAP), is proposing a
revision to the information collection
regarding the Assessment of the Town
Hall Meetings (THMs) on Underage
Drinking (UAD) Prevention. The current
data collection has approval under OMB
#0930–0288, which expires on January
31, 2011. Revisions were made to the
Town Hall Meeting Feedback Form,
now being referred to as the Organizers
Survey; the data collection method; and
the number of respondents.
Additionally, CSAP is adding a new
data collection component titled the
Participants Survey, which is the data
collection instrument for the
participants (or attendees) of the THM
events.
Changes
Under the current approval,
SAMHSA/CSAP distributes a brief
Town Hall Meeting Feedback Form to
all CBOs participating in THM events.
This paper-and-pencil based form
includes 14 items about the THM event,
among which—
• Where, when, and who conducted
the meeting;
• Number of attendees;
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• Format of the meeting;
• Participants in the presentations;
• Actions planned;
• Media coverage;
• Composition of the audience;
• Responses of the attendees;
• Materials provided;
• Indications of increased awareness;
and
• Indications of increased
involvement.
Under this revision, SAMHSA/CSAP
will provide organizers of THM events
with password-protected login
information to access the Organizers
Survey via the Internet. The Organizers
Survey includes 36 items about the
THM event. Listed below is a summary
of the revisions that were made—
• Date of THM event.
• Location of THM event.
• Organization(s) coordinating the THM
event.
• Format/Features of the THM event.
• Promotion of the THM event.
• Participants in the THM event presentations.
• Major actions planned as a result of the
THM event.
• Overall satisfaction with the THM event.
• Sharing of any other important features of
reactions to the THM event.
• Number/Composition of THM attendees.
Deleted Topics/Questions
•
•
•
•
Description of meeting.
Organization affiliation.
Overall response of THM event attendees.
Use of materials from the THM resource
kit.
• Indications of increased awareness.
• Indications of increased involvement.
New Topics/Questions
• Indication of whether a THM event was not
held and reason why the event was not
held.
• Venue in which THM event was held.
• Characterization of the THM event location.
• Duration of the THM event (in hours and
minutes).
• Youth involvement in the THM event.
• Topic of THM event, if other than underage
drinking.
• Demographics of the participants (age,
race, gender).
• Language of the THM event.
• Use of materials from the https://
www.stopalcoholabuse.gov Web site.
• Participation in THM-related webinars.
• Viewing of online training and requests for
technical assistance (TA).
• Satisfaction with training and/or TA received.
• Improved capacity to provide effective UAD
services due to training and/or TA received.
• Implementation of training and/or TA recommendations.
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• Indication of whether data were collected
about the THM event and willingness to
share those data with CSAP.
New Data Collection Component
SAMHSA/CSAP will provide
organizers of THM events with a unique
URL to make available to participants of
their THM event. This unique URL
provides access to the Participants
Survey.
The Participants Survey includes 17
items about the THM event, among
which—
• When and where the THM event
was held;
• Estimation of the number of
attendees at the THM event;
• Perception of increased awareness;
• Indication of reach of the underage
drinking prevention messages from the
THM event;
• Perception of increased
involvement;
• Indication of the most important
underage drinking issues facing the
community;
• Perception of how well the THM
event addressed those issues;
• Appropriateness of the THM event
in terms of length and duration;
• Overall assessment of the THM
event; and
• Demographics of the participants.
The Organizers Survey will be
completed by an estimated 3,400 THM
event organizers and will require only
one response per respondent. It will
take an average of 30 minutes (0.500
hours) to review the instructions and
complete the survey. This burden
estimate is based on comments from
several potential respondents who
reviewed the survey and provided
comments on how long it would take
them to complete it.
The Participants Survey will be
completed by an estimated nine
participants per THM event and will
require only one response per
respondent. The estimated number of
participant respondents is based on 21
percent of the average of the sum of
adult (66,519) and youth (53,554)
participants, as reported on the 2008
THM events feedback forms (1,492
forms reported adults as participants
and 1,316 forms reported youth as
participants) [(120,073/2,808 = 42.76) ×
0.21 = 8.9798]. It will take an average of
10 minutes (0.167 hours) to review the
instructions and complete the survey.
This burden estimate is based on
comments from several potential
respondents who reviewed the survey
and provided comments on how long it
would take them to complete it.
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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 opportunity for public comment on proposed
collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration 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
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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: Program Evaluation for Assertive Adolescent & Family
Treatment (AAFT) Program--NEW
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's
(SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has implemented
the Assertive Adolescent and Family Treatment (AAFT) program to promote
the adoption of evidence-based practices by community providers in the
area of adolescent substance use treatment. The AAFT program provides
evidence-based substance use services to adolescents and their
families, as well as to transition-age youth (TAY), caregivers, and
their families/mentors. This program is based on evidence that
families/caregivers are an integral part of the treatment process and
their inclusion in services increases the likelihood of successful
treatment and reintegration of adolescents/TAYs into their communities
following treatment. AAFT requires grantees to implement the Adolescent
Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) coupled with Assertive
Continuing Care (ACC) to provide treatment that is context-specific,
family-centered, and community-based. Grantees are also required to use
the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN) as the common
assessment instrument across programs to improve intake assessment,
clinical interpretation, monitoring, and data management. The GAIN is
used for diagnosis and to assist in placement, treatment planning,
local evaluation, and continuous quality improvement for programs. In
supporting AAFT and to ensure that each implementation activity
required by AAFT is implemented well and with fidelity, CSAT has
provided, through Chestnut Health Systems, a package of implementation
supports, including manual-assisted training in and certification for
clinical staff on A-CRA and ACC, training/certification in GAIN,
monitoring/coaching/mentoring/support for clinicians and supervisors,
implementation calls and monthly progress reports, and topical
workgroups that share ideas and resources among grantees. The
overarching objective of the multi-site, Assertive Adolescent and
Family Treatment (AAFT) process and outcome evaluation is to assess and
document the process of implementation in the 2009 cohort of AAFT
grantees and to explore the role that implementation supports play in
how well these programs evolve.
CSAT is requesting approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to implement three versions of a data collection document,
the AAFT Implementation Survey, to gather longitudinal data (end of
each of 3 project years) from a range of grantee personnel to evaluate
the implementation, expansion, and sustainability of adolescent
substance use services developed under the AAFT program.
The current proposal requests implementing the AAFT Implementation
Surveys to collect information in the following areas:
a. Attitudes toward evidence-based practices generally, and AAFT
model components in particular (e.g., attitudes toward using a
treatment manual, achieving certification);
b. Grantee involvement with the implementation supports provided by
Chestnut Health Systems and their reactions to those implementation
supports;
c. Perceived changes in clinical practice/behavior indicating
movement toward full A-CRA/ACC implementation;
d. Perceived barriers encountered in implementation and
compensatory strategies;
e. Report on project progress, including activities related to the
AAFT program, changes to program plans, project accomplishments, and
efforts to plan for sustainability of the program.
This information would be collected annually, at the end of each
project year. The surveys three versions are tailored to address the
respondents' roles in the grant (Principal Investigator/Program
Director, Clinical Supervisor/Clinician, and Evaluator/Data Manager).
Staffing patterns at each grantee site vary greatly; therefore, the
estimate includes the total number of respondents for each category
based on initial grantee proposals. The goal is to conduct surveys with
approximately 21 administrators, 56 clinical staff, and 28 evaluators/
data managers. The total number of respondents--105 individuals--
represent project staff at three distinct levels across 14 grantee
sites.
The burden estimate for completing the Annual Program Survey is as
follows:
Annual Reporting Burden--Summary Table
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Number of
Data collection activity respondents Responses per Total Average hours Total hour Wage rate Total hour
\1\ respondent \2\ responses per response burden (hourly) cost ($)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CY 2010-12 Annual Reporting Burden
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AAFT Implementation Survey--Principal 21 1 21 0.75 15.75 50 787.50
Investigator/Program Director..........
AAFT Implementation Survey--Clinical 56 1 56 0.75 42 26 1092.00
Supervisor/Clinician...................
AAFT Implementation Survey--Evaluator/ 28 1 28 0.75 21 15 315.00
Data Manager...........................
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Annual Total........................ 105 .............. 105 .............. 78.75 .............. 2,194.50
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\1\ Represents project staff at three distinct levels--administrators, clinical staff, evaluators--across 14 grantee sites. Number of respondents is an
average of respondents per role based on staffing patterns described in grantee proposals.
\2\ The AAFT Implementation Survey will be completed once by respondents at all 14 sites at the end of each project year.
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Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
OAS, Room 7-1044, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857. Written
comments should be received by October 1, 2010.
Dated: July 27, 2010.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. 2010-18877 Filed 7-30-10; 8:45 am]
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