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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment
Request; Information Collection
Request Title: Bureau of Health
Workforce Substance Use Disorder
Evaluation, OMB No. 0906–xxxx–NEW
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
HRSA has submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on
HRSA’s ICR only after the 30 day
comment period for this Notice has
closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than June 1, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
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Wright-Solomon, the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer at
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1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title:
Bureau of Health Workforce Substance
Use Disorder (SUD) Evaluation, OMB
No. 0906–xxxx–New.
Abstract: In September 2017, HRSA’s
Bureau of Health Workforce launched a
multi-part effort to increase the
workforce capacity of the U.S. health
care system to prevent and treat the
opioid crisis. As a part of this effort,
HRSA developed or expanded activities
under five programs to help combat the
crisis: (1) The National Health Service
Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program
offers loan repayment to providers
focused on Substance Use Disorder
treatment (NHSC SUD Workforce Loan
Repayment Program (LRP)); (2) the
National Health Service Corps Rural
Communities Loan Repayment Program
(NHSC Rural Communities LRP); (3) the
Opioid Workforce Expansion Program
(OWEP); (4) the Behavioral Health
Workforce Education and Training
Program (BHWET); and (5) the Graduate
Psychology Education (GPE) Program.
These programs provide either loan
repayment to providers (NHSC SUD
Workforce LRP, NHSC Rural
Communities LRP), or funding for
training programs for behavioral health
professionals and paraprofessionals to
increase integrated behavioral health
into primary care treatment and
interprofessional team-based care to
high-need areas (OWEP, BHWET, GPE).
The purpose of the planned
evaluation is to assess these programs
with respect to their stated goals of
increasing access to the number of
clinicians delivering evidence-based
SUD treatment, enhancing education
and training in substance use
prevention and treatment for current
and future health care professionals and
paraprofessionals in rural and
underserved communities, and
integrating behavioral health into
primary care to improve the capacity of
the health care delivery system to
provide SUD prevention and treatment
services.
The evaluation will include data
collection through web-based surveys to
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trainees, recipients of loan repayments,
grantee organizations, and training sites
participating in HRSA’s SUD prevention
and treatment programs. At the trainee/
participant level, questions will focus
on educational and professional
background; motivation and incentives
to join or leave the program; training
experiences; perceived readiness to
deliver SUD treatment services (where
applicable); capacity to engage in
prevention strategies; and postgraduation employment (where
applicable). At the recipient grantee
organization level (note: This level is not
relevant to the NHSC programs),
questions will focus on recruitment and
retention of students, how their SUD
prevention and treatment training
program curriculum was developed, as
applicable, collaboration with SUD
prevention and treatment training sites,
plans for sustainability of SUD
prevention and treatment activities, as
well as any other benefits that resulted
from the program. At the site level,
questions will focus on SUD prevention
and treatment training such as
addressing motivation for the site to
participate, whether and what type of
integrated care delivery is available, and
other organizational factors of the site.
At all three levels, and for all programs,
we will collect survey SUD prevention
and treatment training data on
satisfaction with the program and
recommendations for improving it.
In total, six survey instruments will
be used in this evaluation: (1) NHSC
SUD Workforce Loan Repayment
Program/NHSC Rural Communities
Loan Repayment Program/NHSC Loan
Repayment Program—Participant
Survey; (2) NHSC Loan Repayment
Program— Site Survey; (3) Grantee
Training and Educational Programs—
Trainee Survey; (4) Grantee Training
and Educational Programs—Alumni
Survey; (5) Grantee Training and
Educational Programs—Site Survey; and
(6) Grantee Training and Educational
Programs—Grantee Organization
Survey. As part of a comprehensive
questionnaire design process, questions
will be limited and refined to collect
information not available through
secondary sources. Any data collected
will not be duplicative of that collected
under progress reports or other HRSA
grant monitoring. NHSC site and
participant survey questions will be
drawn from prior NHSC Satisfaction
Surveys, which were fielded in 2017
and 2018 but were discontinued. Skip
patterns will allow respondents to
answer only relevant questions for each
of their programs. Participation in all
surveys is voluntary, and all surveys
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will be fielded annually for three years
beginning in 2020 and concluding at the
end of 2022 to include each annual
cohort of trainees and participants. Each
trainee, participant, or site will
complete their respective surveys one
time.
A 60-day notice published in the
Federal Register on January 24, 2020,
vol. 85, No. 16; pp. 4327–29. There were
no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The purpose of this effort
is to evaluate HRSA’s SUD prevention
and treatment expansion program
investments with respect to the
following objectives:
• Objective 1: What is the impact of
the NHSC SUD Workforce LRP and the
NHSC Rural Communities LRP on the
provision of SUD services in
underserved areas compared to those
who participate in the non-SUD NHSC
LRP?
• Objective 2: How are the activities
in the BHWET, GPE, and OWEP
programs contributing to the expansion
of service delivery for SUD prevention
and treatment, at the individual,
educational, and service-delivery
system levels?
• Objective 3: To what extent are
HRSA’s programs successful at
increasing access to treatment for SUD,
including opioid treatment services?
The survey data will be critical to
understanding the factors related to the
success of current HRSA programs, and
assist in the development of future
programs and ongoing SUD prevention
and treatment workforce policy
development.
Likely Respondents: Data will be
collected from trainees, grantee
organizations, and sites participating in
HRSA’s SUD prevention and treatment
expansion programs as described below.
NHSC SUD Workforce Loan
Repayment Program/NHSC Rural
Communities LRP/NHSC LRP—
Participants Survey: All NHSC SUD
Workforce LRP participants, NHSC
Rural Communities LRP participants,
and NHSC traditional LRP participants
who have served at an NHSC site for at
least nine months will be invited to
respond. Respondents will also include
those whom have exited a program early
to understand reasons for termination.
NHSC Loan Repayment Program—
Site Survey: All sites that were approved
to receive NHSC resources, regardless if
they currently have a participant on
staff will be invited to respond.
Grantee Training and Educational
Programs—Trainee Survey: All
individuals identified by a grantee as
currently receiving training as part of
one of the grantee training and
educational programs will be invited to
respond. Respondents will also include
those who have exited a program early,
to understand reasons for termination.
Grantee Training and Educational
Programs—Alumni Survey: All
individuals who completed the Grantee
Training and Educational Program
Trainee Survey but had not completed
their training at the time of the trainee
survey, will be invited to respond to this
short survey which will ask about
employment since graduation.
Grantee Training and Educational
Programs—Site Survey: All sites that
were approved to receive BHWET,
OWEP, or GPE trainees, regardless of
whether they currently have trainees,
will be invited to respond.
Grantee Training and Educational
Programs—Grantee Organization
Survey: All grantee organizations that
received awards in fiscal year (FY) 2018
for the BHWET program, and received
FY 2019 awards for the GPE and OWEP
programs will be invited to respond.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install, and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN—HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
responses
Total
burden hours
NHSC Loan Repayment Programs- Participant Survey ......
NHSC Loan Repayment Programs- Site Survey ................
Grantee Programs- Trainee Survey ....................................
Grantee Programs- Alumni Survey ......................................
Grantee Programs- Site Survey ..........................................
Grantee Programs- Grantee Organization Survey ..............
8,000
18,000
8,000
2,000
5,000
300
1
1
1
1
1
1
8,000
18,000
8,000
2,000
5,000
300
0.33
0.33
0.33
0.16
0.33
0.33
2,640
5,940
2,640
320
1,650
99
Total ..............................................................................
41,300
........................
41,300
........................
13,289
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
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Council on the National Health Service
Corps
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
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Corps (NACNHSC) meeting scheduled
for Tuesday, June 16, 2020, and
Wednesday, June 17, 2020, has changed
its format, date, and time. The decision
to change the NACNHSC meeting has
been made after carefully examining the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s recommendations to
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Information Collection
Request Title: Bureau of Health Workforce Substance Use Disorder
Evaluation, OMB No. 0906-xxxx-NEW
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30 day
comment period for this Notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than June 1,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Lisa Wright-Solomon, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or
call (301) 443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Bureau of Health Workforce
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Evaluation, OMB No. 0906-xxxx-New.
Abstract: In September 2017, HRSA's Bureau of Health Workforce
launched a multi-part effort to increase the workforce capacity of the
U.S. health care system to prevent and treat the opioid crisis. As a
part of this effort, HRSA developed or expanded activities under five
programs to help combat the crisis: (1) The National Health Service
Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program offers loan repayment to providers
focused on Substance Use Disorder treatment (NHSC SUD Workforce Loan
Repayment Program (LRP)); (2) the National Health Service Corps Rural
Communities Loan Repayment Program (NHSC Rural Communities LRP); (3)
the Opioid Workforce Expansion Program (OWEP); (4) the Behavioral
Health Workforce Education and Training Program (BHWET); and (5) the
Graduate Psychology Education (GPE) Program. These programs provide
either loan repayment to providers (NHSC SUD Workforce LRP, NHSC Rural
Communities LRP), or funding for training programs for behavioral
health professionals and paraprofessionals to increase integrated
behavioral health into primary care treatment and interprofessional
team-based care to high-need areas (OWEP, BHWET, GPE).
The purpose of the planned evaluation is to assess these programs
with respect to their stated goals of increasing access to the number
of clinicians delivering evidence-based SUD treatment, enhancing
education and training in substance use prevention and treatment for
current and future health care professionals and paraprofessionals in
rural and underserved communities, and integrating behavioral health
into primary care to improve the capacity of the health care delivery
system to provide SUD prevention and treatment services.
The evaluation will include data collection through web-based
surveys to trainees, recipients of loan repayments, grantee
organizations, and training sites participating in HRSA's SUD
prevention and treatment programs. At the trainee/participant level,
questions will focus on educational and professional background;
motivation and incentives to join or leave the program; training
experiences; perceived readiness to deliver SUD treatment services
(where applicable); capacity to engage in prevention strategies; and
post-graduation employment (where applicable). At the recipient grantee
organization level (note: This level is not relevant to the NHSC
programs), questions will focus on recruitment and retention of
students, how their SUD prevention and treatment training program
curriculum was developed, as applicable, collaboration with SUD
prevention and treatment training sites, plans for sustainability of
SUD prevention and treatment activities, as well as any other benefits
that resulted from the program. At the site level, questions will focus
on SUD prevention and treatment training such as addressing motivation
for the site to participate, whether and what type of integrated care
delivery is available, and other organizational factors of the site. At
all three levels, and for all programs, we will collect survey SUD
prevention and treatment training data on satisfaction with the program
and recommendations for improving it.
In total, six survey instruments will be used in this evaluation:
(1) NHSC SUD Workforce Loan Repayment Program/NHSC Rural Communities
Loan Repayment Program/NHSC Loan Repayment Program--Participant Survey;
(2) NHSC Loan Repayment Program-- Site Survey; (3) Grantee Training and
Educational Programs--Trainee Survey; (4) Grantee Training and
Educational Programs--Alumni Survey; (5) Grantee Training and
Educational Programs--Site Survey; and (6) Grantee Training and
Educational Programs--Grantee Organization Survey. As part of a
comprehensive questionnaire design process, questions will be limited
and refined to collect information not available through secondary
sources. Any data collected will not be duplicative of that collected
under progress reports or other HRSA grant monitoring. NHSC site and
participant survey questions will be drawn from prior NHSC Satisfaction
Surveys, which were fielded in 2017 and 2018 but were discontinued.
Skip patterns will allow respondents to answer only relevant questions
for each of their programs. Participation in all surveys is voluntary,
and all surveys
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will be fielded annually for three years beginning in 2020 and
concluding at the end of 2022 to include each annual cohort of trainees
and participants. Each trainee, participant, or site will complete
their respective surveys one time.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on January 24,
2020, vol. 85, No. 16; pp. 4327-29. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The purpose of this
effort is to evaluate HRSA's SUD prevention and treatment expansion
program investments with respect to the following objectives:
Objective 1: What is the impact of the NHSC SUD Workforce
LRP and the NHSC Rural Communities LRP on the provision of SUD services
in underserved areas compared to those who participate in the non-SUD
NHSC LRP?
Objective 2: How are the activities in the BHWET, GPE, and
OWEP programs contributing to the expansion of service delivery for SUD
prevention and treatment, at the individual, educational, and service-
delivery system levels?
Objective 3: To what extent are HRSA's programs successful
at increasing access to treatment for SUD, including opioid treatment
services?
The survey data will be critical to understanding the factors
related to the success of current HRSA programs, and assist in the
development of future programs and ongoing SUD prevention and treatment
workforce policy development.
Likely Respondents: Data will be collected from trainees, grantee
organizations, and sites participating in HRSA's SUD prevention and
treatment expansion programs as described below.
NHSC SUD Workforce Loan Repayment Program/NHSC Rural Communities
LRP/NHSC LRP--Participants Survey: All NHSC SUD Workforce LRP
participants, NHSC Rural Communities LRP participants, and NHSC
traditional LRP participants who have served at an NHSC site for at
least nine months will be invited to respond. Respondents will also
include those whom have exited a program early to understand reasons
for termination.
NHSC Loan Repayment Program--Site Survey: All sites that were
approved to receive NHSC resources, regardless if they currently have a
participant on staff will be invited to respond.
Grantee Training and Educational Programs--Trainee Survey: All
individuals identified by a grantee as currently receiving training as
part of one of the grantee training and educational programs will be
invited to respond. Respondents will also include those who have exited
a program early, to understand reasons for termination.
Grantee Training and Educational Programs--Alumni Survey: All
individuals who completed the Grantee Training and Educational Program
Trainee Survey but had not completed their training at the time of the
trainee survey, will be invited to respond to this short survey which
will ask about employment since graduation.
Grantee Training and Educational Programs--Site Survey: All sites
that were approved to receive BHWET, OWEP, or GPE trainees, regardless
of whether they currently have trainees, will be invited to respond.
Grantee Training and Educational Programs--Grantee Organization
Survey: All grantee organizations that received awards in fiscal year
(FY) 2018 for the BHWET program, and received FY 2019 awards for the
GPE and OWEP programs will be invited to respond.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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NHSC Loan Repayment Programs- 8,000 1 8,000 0.33 2,640
Participant Survey.............
NHSC Loan Repayment Programs- 18,000 1 18,000 0.33 5,940
Site Survey....................
Grantee Programs- Trainee Survey 8,000 1 8,000 0.33 2,640
Grantee Programs- Alumni Survey. 2,000 1 2,000 0.16 320
Grantee Programs- Site Survey... 5,000 1 5,000 0.33 1,650
Grantee Programs- Grantee 300 1 300 0.33 99
Organization Survey............
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Total....................... 41,300 .............. 41,300 .............. 13,289
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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