[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 127 (Friday, June 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40676-40677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16549]


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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 list 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 (301)443-7978.
    Survey of Organized Consumer Self-Help Entities--New--The self-help 
movement in the United States has mushroomed, and increasingly serves 
mental health consumers and family members as a complement to, or 
substitution for, traditional mental health services. The purposes of 
this project of SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services are to 
estimate the number of self-help entities nationwide and to describe 
their characteristics--structure, types of activities engaged in, 
approaches to well-being and recovery, resources, and linkages to other 
entities in the community, such as the mental health service delivery 
system. The survey will gather information from a sample of 
approximately 3,900 mental health self-help entities run by and for 
recipients of mental health services and/or their family members. Data 
will be

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collected from three types of self-help entities: mutual support 
groups; self-help organizations; and, consumer-operated businesses and 
services. Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) will be used 
to conduct interviews with in-scope entities. The total response burden 
estimate is shown below.

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                                                                                  Average burden/
                   Instrument                        Number of      Responses/        response     Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hours)         (hours)
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Universe Development Contacts...................           2,736               1             .17             465
Screener........................................           3,933               1             .17             668
Questionnaire...................................           3,933               1             .42           1,652
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      Total.....................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           2,785
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Clarissa Rodriques-Coelho, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office 
of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: June 23, 2000.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 00-16549 Filed 6-29-00; 8:45 am]
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