[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 12 (Friday, January 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2562-2563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1063]


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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.
    Proposed Project: Evaluation of the CMHS/CSAT Collaborative Program 
on Homeless Families: Women with Psychiatric, Substance Use, Or Co-
Occurring Disorders and Their Dependent Children, Phase II--(OMB No. 
0930-0223, Revision)--SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services and 
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, through a set of cooperative 
agreements, are conducting a longitudinal, multi-site evaluation study 
assessing mental health, substance abuse, and trauma interventions 
received by homeless mothers with psychiatric, substance use, or co-
occurring disorders and their dependent children. The study will 
advance knowledge on appropriate and effective approaches to improving 
families' residential stability, overall functioning, and decreased 
risk for violence.
    SAMHSA currently has OMB approval for data collection from 
approximately 1,600 participants recruited from eight sites. At each 
site, a documented treatment intervention is tested in comparison to an 
alternative treatment condition. Participants are interviewed at 
baseline (within two weeks of entering a program) as well as three 
additional times (3 months after program entry, 9 months after program 
entry, and 15 months after program entry). Trained interviewers 
administer the interviews to participating mothers. Information on the 
children is obtained from the mother.
    Key outcomes for the mothers are increased residential stability, 
decreased substance use, decreased psychological distress, improved 
mental health functioning, increased trauma recovery, improved health, 
improved functioning as a parent, and decreased personal violence. 
Outcomes for the children are reduced emotional/behavioral problems and 
improved school attendance.
    A coordinated set of interviews assessing the key ingredients of 
each program will supplement the participant data collection during the 
baseline timeframe. The purpose of the program ingredients interviews, 
administered in a one-time case study protocol format, is to 
systematically describe each treatment and comparison intervention with 
the same set of variables at comparable points in treatment. This case 
study protocol will examine the intervention and comparison program 
models, staffing, structure, goals, and services, and will include 
vignettes describing actual families referred to the programs. In-
person interviews of program directors, program line staff, and 
consumers will be administered in either focus group format or through 
one-on-one sessions. The case study protocol will be geared towards 
obtaining a standard set of information from each site. If some of 
these data are available from other sources or does not apply at a 
particular site, the protocol will be shortened. The estimated response 
burden is as follows:

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                                                     Number of     Responses per      Burden       Total burden
                   Instrument                       respondents     respondent    response (hrs)       hours
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Currently--Approved Client Instrument (3-yr.               2,280  ..............  ..............           3,032
 annual average)................................
Program Director................................              35               1             1.0              35
Focus Group: Line Staff.........................             140               1             1.0             140
Interview: Line Staff...........................             140               1             1.0             140
Focus Group: Consumers..........................             350               1             1.5             525

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Program Ingredients Sub-total...................           2,945  ..............  ..............           3,872
    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............  ..............
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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: January 13, 2003.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-1063 Filed 1-16-03; 8:45 am]
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