[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 129 (Monday, July 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40278-40279]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17020]


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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 summary 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.
    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. This revision will add several 
questions to the 15-month interview to determine awareness and use of 
the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits.
    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.
    Approval is also being sought for 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 do 
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 per     Total burden
                   Instrument                       respondents     respondent    response (hrs)       hours
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Currently--Approved Client Instrument (3-yr.               2,280  ..............  ..............           2,503
 annual average)................................
Additional questions--15-month interview........       1,450 \1\               1             .05              73
Pre-Site Visit Questions: Program Managers......              22               1             2.0              44
Pre-Site Visit Questions: Program Line Staff....              14               1             1.0              14
Interview: Program Managers.....................              22               1             1.0              22
Focus Group: Program Line Staff.................             100               1            1.67             167
Interview: Unique Staff.........................              22               1             1.0              22

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Vignette Interview: Senior Staff................              22               1             1.0              22
Focus Group: Consumers..........................             200               1             1.4             280
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      Total.....................................           2,616  ..............  ..............          3,147
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\1\ Assumes 150 interviews will be completed prior to receipt of approval for the additional questions.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Allison Herron Eydt, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503; due to potential delays in OMB's receipt and 
processing of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, respondents 
are encouraged to submit comments by fax to: 202-395-6974.

    Dated: June 27, 2003.
Anna Marsh,
Acting Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 03-17020 Filed 7-3-03; 8:45 am]
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