[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 159 (Friday, October 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60410-60411]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22714]


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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 (240) 276-1243.
    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: Site Visit Protocol for the Comprehensive Community 
Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families--NEW

    SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services will conduct site visits 
during the second and fourth years of grants and cooperative agreements 
funded through the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services 
Program for Children and Their Families. Sixth year site visits are 
optional and are held at the discretion of the System of Care 
Community. The site visits will provide opportunities for the System of 
Care Community to highlight policies and practices that are most 
impacted by their implementation activities, and to demonstrate the 
full breadth and scope of their work in developing a community-based 
system of care for children and adolescents with serious emotional 
disturbance and their families. A site visit protocol will be used to 
help ensure consistent discussion of key development issues relevant to 
strengthening systems of care in tribes, states and local communities.
    The protocol will be used to help facilitate discussions on the 
following ten domains: strategic & sustainability planning; target 
population of children and adolescents with a serious emotional 
disturbance; child, adolescent and family services and supports, system 
level coordination, infrastructure and management structure; fiscal 
management; cultural and linguistic competence; family and youth 
partnerships; public education and social marketing; evaluation; and 
service records.
    This information collection supports The President's New Freedom 
Initiative, one of SAMHSA's current priorities. As part of this effort, 
the President launched the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health to 
address the problems in the current mental health system. This protocol 
is aimed at providing a framework for obtaining information on the 
developmental progress of systems of care that is consistent with the 
direction described in The President's New Freedom Commission Report.
    Using the protocol as a guide, the funded project will develop an 
agenda for its site visit that will provide the opportunity for 
discussion in each of the ten domains of the protocol. Group 
discussions with project staff and community partners will be conducted 
for each domain area of the protocol. Finally, the protocol will be 
used by the federal project officer as a guide for the development of a 
site visit report.

                                       Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden
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                                                                   Responses per     Hours per      Total hour
                      Number of respondents                         respondents      responses        burden
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2,000...........................................................              1             1.5           3,000
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    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 7-1045, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20850. Written comments 
should be received by December 7, 2004.

    Dated: October 1, 2004.
Anna Marsh,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 04-22714 Filed 10-7-04; 8:45 am]
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