[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 87 (Friday, May 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 24103]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-9060]


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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: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline--Call Log and 
Crisis Center Survey--NEW

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services has funded a National 
Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network, consisting of a single toll-free 
telephone number that routes calls from anywhere in the United States 
to a network of local crisis centers. In turn, the local centers link 
callers to local emergency, mental health, and social service 
resources.
    Through its grantee which is administering the National Suicide 
Prevention Lifeline Network, SAMHSA developed a Call Log and Crisis 
Center Survey in an effort to monitor basic trends in calls received 
and to learn more about the capacities, skills, and unmet needs of the 
crisis centers involved in the Network. The completed Call Logs and 
Surveys will inform the Network's planning around network recruitment 
strategies, technology, training, marketing, and other network resource 
development activities. The goal of these efforts is to enhance 
services provided by networked crisis centers, increase their 
accessibility to people at risk for suicidal behavior, and optimize 
public health efforts to prevent suicide and suicidal behavior.
    All 104 networked crisis centers will be invited to complete the 
Call Logs, which will be available in both Web-based and hardcopy 
formats. Trained crisis counselors will use their judgment as to 
whether to complete the form at the conclusion of individual calls. 
Completing the form entails asking callers several basic questions 
(e.g., zip code, age, how they heard about the Lifeline service). No 
identifiable information will be collected.
    The Web-based Crisis Center Survey, which will be administered only 
one time, requests information about crisis centers' infrastructure and 
services. The Survey includes questions about organizational structure, 
scope of services, telephone technology and equipment, staffing, 
training, and quality assurance.
    The estimated annual response burden to collect this information is 
as follows:

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                                                                                      Burden/
                   Instrument                        Number of      Responses/       response      Annual burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hours)         (hours)
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline--Call Log..             250               4             .03              30
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Crisis                 104               1             .33              34
 Center Survey..................................
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    Total.......................................             354  ..............  ..............              64
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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 July 5, 2005.

    Dated: April 29, 2005.
Anna Marsh,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 05-9060 Filed 5-5-05; 8:45 am]
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