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decisions received from SSA either on
initial application or on appeal. This
password-protected web-based data
form will be housed on the SOAR Web
site (https://www.prainc.com/soar). Use
of this form is completely voluntary.
In addition, data from the web-based
form can be compiled into reports on
decision results and the use of SOAR
core components, such as the SSA–1696
Appointment of Representative which
allows SSA to communicate directly
with the case manager assisting with the
application. These reports will be
reviewed by agency directors, SOAR
state-level leads, and the national SOAR
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Technical Assistance Center and SOAR
national evaluation team to quantify the
success of the effort overall and to
identify areas where additional
technical assistance is needed.
The estimated response burden is as
follows:
Information source
Number of
respondents
Responses
per
respondent
Total
responses
Hours per
response
Total
hours
SOAR Data Form .............................................
800
36
28,800
.25
7,200
Written comments and
recommendations concerning the
proposed information collection should
be sent by September 16, 2011 to the
SAMHSA Desk Officer at the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). To ensure timely receipt of
comments, and to avoid potential delays
in OMB’s receipt and processing of mail
sent through the U.S. Postal Service,
commenters are encouraged to submit
their comments to OMB via e-mail to:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
Although commenters are encouraged to
send their comments via e-mail,
commenters may also fax their
comments to: 202–395–7285.
Commenters may also mail them to:
Office of Management and Budget,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, New Executive Office Building,
Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.
Cathy J. Friedman,
SAMHSA, Public Health Analyst.
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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.
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Project: Children Affected by
Methamphetamine in Family Drug
Treatment Court—NEW
In 2010, the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment (CSAT), provided funding to
12 existing Family Treatment Drug
Courts (FTDCs) for enhancement and/or
expansion of their FTDC’s capabilities
to provide psycho-social, emotional and
mental health services to children (0–17
years) and their families who have
methamphetamine use disorders and
involvement in child protective
services. This program was authorized
in House Report 111–220 accompanying
H.R. 3293 in 2010. The Committee
language stated that ‘‘these grants will
support a collaborative approach,
including treatment providers, child
welfare specialists, and judges, to
provide community-based social
services for the children of
methamphetamine-addicted parents,’’
and were to be awarded to Family
Dependency Treatment Drug Courts.
The proposed data collection for the
grantees, referred to as the Children
Affected by Methamphetamine in
Family Treatment Drug Court (CAM–
FTDC) project, will provide knowledge
about the services needed and provided
to these and similar families. The data
to be collected by the CAM–FTDC
program is SAMHSA’s first Federal data
collection effort focused specifically on
the needs of children whose parents
have a substance use disorder and are
participating in an FTDC and on
effective strategies to address their
needs. The information collected
through the CAM–FTDC program will
benefit SAMHSA by providing an indepth understanding of the needs of the
children and families served by CAM–
FTDC. Findings from this program will
provide SAMHSA with valuable
information regarding appropriate
service interventions for this population
and, ultimately, inform SAMHSA on
how the agency can best meet the needs
of future drug endangered children. The
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results from this data collection will
serve to inform future decisions
regarding funding by SAMHSA as well
as establish an evidence base for the
practices undertaken for other localities
and programs implementing Family
Treatment Drug Courts.
The evaluation of the CAM–FTDC
project will collect data on children,
parents/caregivers, family functioning
and interagency collaboration. The
domains specified in the Request for
Applications (RFA) are: (1) Child
Outcomes; (2) Parent/Caregiver
Outcomes; (3) Family Functioning; and,
(4) Interagency Collaboration.
To the greatest extent possible, the
data elements are operationally defined
using standard definitions in child
welfare and substance abuse treatment.
The use of standard data definitions
will reduce the data collection burden
on grantees as these variables are
collected through data collection
procedures that currently exist through
all publically funded child welfare and
substance abuse treatment systems. The
CAM–FTDC performance measures are
data currently collected by programs as
part of their normal operations (e.g.,
placement status in child welfare
services, substance abuse treatment
entry dates). Thus, no primary data
collection from clients will be required
as the grantees will be abstracting
existing data. The information utilized
for the North Carolina Family
Assessment Scale rating is obtained
during the intake interview that sites
engage in when determining program
eligibility and suitability. If needed, the
CAM FTDC staff member may
supplement this information by
obtaining information from other staff
that interact with the client (i.e., the
social worker familiar with the family)
or during a home visit (if this is part of
their program activities).
It should be re-emphasized that the
CAM–FTDC projects are expansions or
enhancements of FTDC partnerships
that currently have existing
relationships (and information sharing/
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confidentiality agreements) in place. It
is through this existing information
sharing forum that the CAM grantees
will be able to obtain the requisite child
welfare and substance abuse treatment
performance measures.
The grantees will use electronic
abstraction and secondary data
collection for elements that are already
being collected by counties and States
in their reporting requirements of
Federally-mandated data. There are five
data sources that will be used to collect
and report the performance measures:
Two Federal child welfare data sets, a
Federal substance abuse treatment data
set, the North Carolina Family
Assessment Scale, and an interagency
collaboration survey administered to
CAM FTDC program staff.
Exhibit 1 presents the estimated total
cost burden associated with the
collection of the CAM–FTDC data
elements. The following estimates
represent the minimum CAM–FTDC
clients required to be served by the
CAM–FTDC grantees (i.e., a minimum
of 20 methamphetamine-using clients is
required in order to have a sufficient
number of participants in the program ×
12 grantees). The identified respondent
for the annualized hour burden for the
child, parent/caregiver and family
functioning elements is the grantee staff
person who will extract data from
CAM–FTDC client. For the interagency
collaboration measure, the respondent is
identified as a CAM–FTDC staff
member. It is estimated that 10 CAM–
FTDC staff members from each of the 12
grantees will complete the interagency
collaboration measure. The estimated
total cost of the time that will be spent
completing data collection is $18,400
(total number of respondent hours ×
$18.40, the estimated average hourly
wages for adults as published by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010).
EXHIBIT 1—ANNUALIZED HOUR BURDEN
Number of
records
Form/instrument
Responses
per record
Total responses
Hours per
response1
Total hour
burden
CAM Form-Secondary extraction (12 sites × 20 families) ......................
North Carolina Family Assessment Form—Scale-General + Reunification (NCFAS–G+R) (12 sites × 20 families) ........................................
Collaborative Capacity Instrument—(CCI) (12 sites × 10 families) .........
240
2
480
.5
240
240
120
2
1
480
120
.5
.33
240
39.6
Total ..................................................................................................
600
....................
1,080
....................
519.6
1 The
estimated response burden includes the extractions and uploads to the CAM Form and the North Carolina Family Assessment Form.
Written comments and
recommendations concerning the
proposed information collection should
be sent by September 16, 2011 to the
SAMHSA Desk Officer at the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). To ensure timely receipt of
comments, and to avoid potential delays
in OMB’s receipt and processing of mail
sent through the U.S. Postal Service,
commenters are encouraged to submit
their comments to OMB via e-mail to:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
Although commenters are encouraged to
send their comments via e-mail,
commenters may also fax their
comments to: 202–395–7285.
Commenters may also mail them to:
Office of Management and Budget,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, New Executive Office Building,
Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.
Cathy J. Friedman,
SAMHSA, Public Health Analyst.
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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: Triennial Evaluation of the
Projects for Assistance in Transition
From Homelessness (PATH)—NEW
The Center for Mental Health Services
awards grants each fiscal year to each of
the States, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa,
and the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands from allotments
authorized under the PATH program
established by Public Law 101–645,
42 U.S.C. 290cc–21 et seq., the Stewart
B. McKinney Homeless Assistance
Amendments Act of 1990 (section 521 et
seq. of the Public Health Service (PHS)
Act). Section 522 of the PHS Act
requires that the grantee States and
Territories must expend their payments
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under the Act solely for making grants
to political subdivisions of the State,
and to nonprofit private entities
(including community-based veterans’
organizations and other community
organizations) for the purpose of
providing services specified in the Act.
Available funding is allotted in
accordance with the formula provision
of section 524 of the PHS Act.
This submission is for a collection of
contextual, process, and outcome
information to evaluate the national
PATH program. Section 528 of the PHS
Act specifies that the Administrator of
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration shall evaluate
at least once every 3 years the
expenditures of grants under this part
by eligible entities in order to ensure
that expenditures are consistent with
the provisions of this part. The
evaluation shall include
recommendations regarding changes in
program design or operations.
The proposed data collection
includes:
• Interviews with 10 State Path
Contacts (SPCs) and an online survey
with all 56 SPCs to gather more
information on how States plan, solicit,
and monitor local providers using
PATH funding; the challenges faced in
their operating environment, in working
with the populations they serve, and the
environment in which they work;
remaining gaps and needs as well as
possible solutions and
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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: Children Affected by Methamphetamine in Family Drug Treatment
Court--NEW
In 2010, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT),
provided funding to 12 existing Family Treatment Drug Courts (FTDCs)
for enhancement and/or expansion of their FTDC's capabilities to
provide psycho-social, emotional and mental health services to children
(0-17 years) and their families who have methamphetamine use disorders
and involvement in child protective services. This program was
authorized in House Report 111-220 accompanying H.R. 3293 in 2010. The
Committee language stated that ``these grants will support a
collaborative approach, including treatment providers, child welfare
specialists, and judges, to provide community-based social services for
the children of methamphetamine-addicted parents,'' and were to be
awarded to Family Dependency Treatment Drug Courts.
The proposed data collection for the grantees, referred to as the
Children Affected by Methamphetamine in Family Treatment Drug Court
(CAM-FTDC) project, will provide knowledge about the services needed
and provided to these and similar families. The data to be collected by
the CAM-FTDC program is SAMHSA's first Federal data collection effort
focused specifically on the needs of children whose parents have a
substance use disorder and are participating in an FTDC and on
effective strategies to address their needs. The information collected
through the CAM-FTDC program will benefit SAMHSA by providing an in-
depth understanding of the needs of the children and families served by
CAM-FTDC. Findings from this program will provide SAMHSA with valuable
information regarding appropriate service interventions for this
population and, ultimately, inform SAMHSA on how the agency can best
meet the needs of future drug endangered children. The results from
this data collection will serve to inform future decisions regarding
funding by SAMHSA as well as establish an evidence base for the
practices undertaken for other localities and programs implementing
Family Treatment Drug Courts.
The evaluation of the CAM-FTDC project will collect data on
children, parents/caregivers, family functioning and interagency
collaboration. The domains specified in the Request for Applications
(RFA) are: (1) Child Outcomes; (2) Parent/Caregiver Outcomes; (3)
Family Functioning; and, (4) Interagency Collaboration.
To the greatest extent possible, the data elements are
operationally defined using standard definitions in child welfare and
substance abuse treatment. The use of standard data definitions will
reduce the data collection burden on grantees as these variables are
collected through data collection procedures that currently exist
through all publically funded child welfare and substance abuse
treatment systems. The CAM-FTDC performance measures are data currently
collected by programs as part of their normal operations (e.g.,
placement status in child welfare services, substance abuse treatment
entry dates). Thus, no primary data collection from clients will be
required as the grantees will be abstracting existing data. The
information utilized for the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale
rating is obtained during the intake interview that sites engage in
when determining program eligibility and suitability. If needed, the
CAM FTDC staff member may supplement this information by obtaining
information from other staff that interact with the client (i.e., the
social worker familiar with the family) or during a home visit (if this
is part of their program activities).
It should be re-emphasized that the CAM-FTDC projects are
expansions or enhancements of FTDC partnerships that currently have
existing relationships (and information sharing/
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confidentiality agreements) in place. It is through this existing
information sharing forum that the CAM grantees will be able to obtain
the requisite child welfare and substance abuse treatment performance
measures.
The grantees will use electronic abstraction and secondary data
collection for elements that are already being collected by counties
and States in their reporting requirements of Federally-mandated data.
There are five data sources that will be used to collect and report the
performance measures: Two Federal child welfare data sets, a Federal
substance abuse treatment data set, the North Carolina Family
Assessment Scale, and an interagency collaboration survey administered
to CAM FTDC program staff.
Exhibit 1 presents the estimated total cost burden associated with
the collection of the CAM-FTDC data elements. The following estimates
represent the minimum CAM-FTDC clients required to be served by the
CAM-FTDC grantees (i.e., a minimum of 20 methamphetamine-using clients
is required in order to have a sufficient number of participants in the
program x 12 grantees). The identified respondent for the annualized
hour burden for the child, parent/caregiver and family functioning
elements is the grantee staff person who will extract data from CAM-
FTDC client. For the interagency collaboration measure, the respondent
is identified as a CAM-FTDC staff member. It is estimated that 10 CAM-
FTDC staff members from each of the 12 grantees will complete the
interagency collaboration measure. The estimated total cost of the time
that will be spent completing data collection is $18,400 (total number
of respondent hours x $18.40, the estimated average hourly wages for
adults as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010).
Exhibit 1--Annualized Hour Burden
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Number of Responses Total Hours per Total hour
Form/instrument records per record responses response\1\ burden
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CAM Form-Secondary extraction (12 sites x 20 240 2 480 .5 240
families).....................................
North Carolina Family Assessment Form--Scale- 240 2 480 .5 240
General + Reunification (NCFAS-G+R) (12 sites
x 20 families)................................
Collaborative Capacity Instrument--(CCI) (12 120 1 120 .33 39.6
sites x 10 families)..........................
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Total...................................... 600 ........... 1,080 ........... 519.6
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\1\ The estimated response burden includes the extractions and uploads to the CAM Form and the North Carolina
Family Assessment Form.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by September 16, 2011 to the
SAMHSA Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely
receipt of comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and
processing of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are
encouraged to submit their comments to OMB via e-mail to: OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. Although commenters are encouraged to send
their comments via e-mail, commenters may also fax their comments to:
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.
Cathy J. Friedman,
SAMHSA, Public Health Analyst.
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