[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 207 (Friday, October 25, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65580-65581]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-27199]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-03-06]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports 
Clearance Officer on (404) 498-1210.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is 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. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and 
Leadership through Alliances (DELTA)--New--National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).
    Domestic violence is a large, potentially preventable source of 
physical and emotional harm for women, children, and families. One 
promising approach to domestic violence prevention is the coordinated 
community response (CCR) model wherein multiple agencies within a 
community come together to work collectively on domestic violence 
issues. However, many CCRs formed to date focus on responding to rather 
than preventing acts of violence. The CDC is launching the Domestic 
Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances 
(DELTA) demonstration program to stimulate the development of 
prevention-focused programs and the diffusion of the programs into the 
existing operations of CCRs, using nine state domestic violence 
coalitions as intermediaries.
    This project, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) 
will first identify and describe each state's CCR structures and 
operations, then evaluate the DELTA Program's success in developing and 
disseminating prevention enhancements to CCRs. Mathematica will use an 
environmental scan to identify the full population of CCRs in each 
state, as well as profile the organizational, political, and economic 
landscape in which the CCRs operate. This information will assist CDC 
and the state coalitions in developing prevention enhancements that are 
responsive to the capacities and circumstances of local CCRs while at 
the same time providing baseline measures to facilitate and evaluation 
of the DELTA program. The DELTA program evaluation will then use these 
baseline measures, together with additional data collected each year 
throughout program implementation to assess how well the program 
performs in strengthening collaborative activity across domestic 
violence programs, developing prevention enhancements and incorporating 
them into current CCR operations, and institutionalizing organizational 
changes that will sustain primary prevention as part of the everyday 
workings of state coalitions and CCRs. Mathematica will conduct 
interviews with the nine state coalitions that are DELTA grantees every 
six months and conduct an annual survey of all local CCRs in the nine 
DELTA states. MPR will also conduct a one-time survey of state domestic 
violence coalitions and up to ten other organizations in each of the 41 
non-DELTA states. There is no cost to respondents for any of these 
surveys.

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                                                                      No. of       Avg. burden/
                   Respondents                        No. of        responses/     response (in    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)         (in hrs.)
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Telephone interviews with administrators of                    9               7           30/60              32
 state domestic violence coalitions in DELTA
 states.........................................
Telephone interviews with other organizations...              36               1           30/60              18
Mail Survey of local CCRs in DELTA states.......             288               4           20/60             384
Mail survey of state domestic violence                        41               1           30/60              21
 coalitions in non-Delta states.................
Mail survey of other state agencies or advocacy              123               1           30/60              62
 groups in non-Delta states.....................
Telephone interviews with CCRs in Delta states..              40               1           30/60              20
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      Total.....................................  ..............  ..............  ..............             537
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    Dated: October 16, 2002.
John Moore,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-27199 Filed 10-24-02; 8:45 am]
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