[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 139 (Wednesday, July 21, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43617-43618]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16546]


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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: Understanding the Establishment and Maintenance 
of Pioneering Transition Programs--New--SAMHSA's Center for Mental 
Health Services will seek information about the establishment and 
maintenance of programs funded in part by state child mental health 
agencies that prepare youth from these agencies for adult functioning, 
and can provide these services continuously beyond the upper age limit 
of state child mental health eligibility. Many, if not most, of the 
youth served in state child mental health systems cannot access state 
adult mental health services; thus, the ability to provide continuing 
transition support services to this population throughout the period of 
transition, roughly to the age of 25, is critical to the likelihood of 
adult success.
    The small number of pioneering programs in the country that have 
successfully negotiated the system to achieve this status have much to 
teach those trying to develop better transition support systems. In 
particular, the history of how the program was established, what it 
takes to maintain the program, the challenges the programs have faced 
in providing transition supports and their solutions to these problems 
can help others, and prevent needless duplication of trial and error. 
This project will begin the development of guidelines for other 
attempting to bridge this important service gap through discovering 
shared and unique approaches to establishing and maintaining pioneering 
transition programs, and the challenges that they face in providing 
services to this grossly underserved population.
    Nine such programs have been identified. Another four programs, 
that have not been maintained, will also be identified, yielding a 
total of 13 programs that will be examined. Examination will occur 
primarily through telephone interview of multiple stakeholders per 
program. Program information will also be requested electronically. 
Stakeholders from each program will consist of the following: 2 state-
level child mental health administrators, 2 program-level 
administrators/staff, and up to an additional 3 key stakeholders that 
are identified during the process of interviewing the first 4 
stakeholders. Stakeholders will be asked about 3 issues: (1) How the 
program was established; (2) efforts to keep the program open and 
funded; and (3) factors that facilitated or inhibited its opening or 
maintenance. Sufficient detail will be sought to determine the unique 
efforts needed for these kinds of programs, as opposed to common 
efforts made to establish any new program. Two questionnaires will be 
used to obtain this information, one for program administrators or 
staff and the other for other stakeholders.
    The following table summarizes the estimated response burden for 
this project.

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                                     Number of      Responses/         Total         Hours per      Total hour
           Respondent               respondents     respondents      responses       response         burden
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Pioneering Programs: Staff/                   26               1              26             1.5              39
 Administrators.................
Pioneering Programs:                          52               1              52             1.0              52
 Stakeholders...................
  Total.........................              78               1            3978  ..............              91
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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 by September 20, 2004.

    Dated: July 14, 2004.
Anna Marsh,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 04-16546 Filed 7-20-04; 8:45 am]
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