[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 79 (Monday, April 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21779-21780]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10084]


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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 (301) 443-7978.
    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.

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Proposed Project

    Administrative Reporting Form (ARF) for the Cooperative Agreement 
to Study Women with Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Disorders (ADM) Who 
Have Histories of Violence--New--The Women, ADM Disorders, and Violence 
Study is funded by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment 
(CSAT), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), and Center for 
Mental Health Services (CMHS) to produce knowledge on the development 
and effectiveness of integrated services for women with co-occurring 
mental health and substance abuse disorders who are victims of 
violence. Fourteen sites are funded in Phase I from across the country, 
and ten sites are expected to be funded in Phase II. During Phase I of 
the study (2 years), sites are expected to develop integrated service 
models. In Phase II, sites that successfully reapply will test their 
interventions in a multi-site outcome study contrasting comprehensive, 
integrated, trauma-specific and Consumer/Survivor/Recovering Person (C/
S/R) involved services to services as usual.
    A process evaluation occurs through both phases of the study with 
the goals of (1) documenting the development of integrated service 
systems across all sites, (2) feeding information back to each site to 
help site staff improve their project, and (3) describing the service 
systems which intervention and control groups are exposed to at each of 
the sites so that meaningful comparisons of outcomes can be made.
    The Administrative Reporting Form (ARF) is a program monitoring 
instrument which is to be completed jointly by the project director, 
project staff members, and directors of participating organizations at 
each study site annually as part of the process evaluation data 
collection. The ARF collects information about the staffing and 
governance of each project, project accomplishments in the previous 
year, and specific project components. Like other periodic progress 
reports, the ARF focuses on the reporting of organizational and 
institutional information. No individual information or opinions are 
solicited or appropriate for inclusion in the ARF.
    Information collected with the ARF will be used in three ways, 
corresponding to the three goals of the process evaluation listed 
above. First, evaluators will use information from the ARF to describe 
the process of project implementation at each of the study sites. This 
information will ultimately contribute to ``how-to'' knowledge products 
for communities attempting to integrate services. Second, site visiting 
teams will use information from the ARF in their assessments of the 
sites and will make recommendations to each site of how the site can 
improve its project. Third, descriptive information from the ARF will 
be used to characterize each site's intervention in terms of the 
players involved, the services provided, the manner in which those 
services are integrated, and the manner in which C/S/R persons are 
involved. These characterizations will inform the interpretation of the 
client-level data in the outcome study.
    The estimated annualized burden for these reporting requirements is 
summarized below.

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                                                                                      Burden/
                 Respondent type                     Number of      Responses/       response      Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hours)          hours
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Project Directors...............................              10               1              10             100
Project Staff Members...........................              20               1              10             200
Participating Organization Directors............              80               1             .50              40
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    Total.......................................             110  ..............  ..............             340
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    Send comments to Nancy Pearce, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: April 17, 2000.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 00-10084 Filed 4-21-00; 8:45 am]
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