[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 159 (Wednesday, August 17, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51045-51046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20857]


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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 (240) 276-1243.

Project: Children Affected by Methamphetamine in Family Drug Treatment 
Court--NEW

    In 2010, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), 
provided funding to 12 existing Family Treatment Drug Courts (FTDCs) 
for enhancement and/or expansion of their FTDC's capabilities to 
provide psycho-social, emotional and mental health services to children 
(0-17 years) and their families who have methamphetamine use disorders 
and involvement in child protective services. This program was 
authorized in House Report 111-220 accompanying H.R. 3293 in 2010. The 
Committee language stated that ``these grants will support a 
collaborative approach, including treatment providers, child welfare 
specialists, and judges, to provide community-based social services for 
the children of methamphetamine-addicted parents,'' and were to be 
awarded to Family Dependency Treatment Drug Courts.
    The proposed data collection for the grantees, referred to as the 
Children Affected by Methamphetamine in Family Treatment Drug Court 
(CAM-FTDC) project, will provide knowledge about the services needed 
and provided to these and similar families. The data to be collected by 
the CAM-FTDC program is SAMHSA's first Federal data collection effort 
focused specifically on the needs of children whose parents have a 
substance use disorder and are participating in an FTDC and on 
effective strategies to address their needs. The information collected 
through the CAM-FTDC program will benefit SAMHSA by providing an in-
depth understanding of the needs of the children and families served by 
CAM-FTDC. Findings from this program will provide SAMHSA with valuable 
information regarding appropriate service interventions for this 
population and, ultimately, inform SAMHSA on how the agency can best 
meet the needs of future drug endangered children. The results from 
this data collection will serve to inform future decisions regarding 
funding by SAMHSA as well as establish an evidence base for the 
practices undertaken for other localities and programs implementing 
Family Treatment Drug Courts.
    The evaluation of the CAM-FTDC project will collect data on 
children, parents/caregivers, family functioning and interagency 
collaboration. The domains specified in the Request for Applications 
(RFA) are: (1) Child Outcomes; (2) Parent/Caregiver Outcomes; (3) 
Family Functioning; and, (4) Interagency Collaboration.
    To the greatest extent possible, the data elements are 
operationally defined using standard definitions in child welfare and 
substance abuse treatment. The use of standard data definitions will 
reduce the data collection burden on grantees as these variables are 
collected through data collection procedures that currently exist 
through all publically funded child welfare and substance abuse 
treatment systems. The CAM-FTDC performance measures are data currently 
collected by programs as part of their normal operations (e.g., 
placement status in child welfare services, substance abuse treatment 
entry dates). Thus, no primary data collection from clients will be 
required as the grantees will be abstracting existing data. The 
information utilized for the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale 
rating is obtained during the intake interview that sites engage in 
when determining program eligibility and suitability. If needed, the 
CAM FTDC staff member may supplement this information by obtaining 
information from other staff that interact with the client (i.e., the 
social worker familiar with the family) or during a home visit (if this 
is part of their program activities).
    It should be re-emphasized that the CAM-FTDC projects are 
expansions or enhancements of FTDC partnerships that currently have 
existing relationships (and information sharing/

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confidentiality agreements) in place. It is through this existing 
information sharing forum that the CAM grantees will be able to obtain 
the requisite child welfare and substance abuse treatment performance 
measures.
    The grantees will use electronic abstraction and secondary data 
collection for elements that are already being collected by counties 
and States in their reporting requirements of Federally-mandated data. 
There are five data sources that will be used to collect and report the 
performance measures: Two Federal child welfare data sets, a Federal 
substance abuse treatment data set, the North Carolina Family 
Assessment Scale, and an interagency collaboration survey administered 
to CAM FTDC program staff.
    Exhibit 1 presents the estimated total cost burden associated with 
the collection of the CAM-FTDC data elements. The following estimates 
represent the minimum CAM-FTDC clients required to be served by the 
CAM-FTDC grantees (i.e., a minimum of 20 methamphetamine-using clients 
is required in order to have a sufficient number of participants in the 
program x 12 grantees). The identified respondent for the annualized 
hour burden for the child, parent/caregiver and family functioning 
elements is the grantee staff person who will extract data from CAM-
FTDC client. For the interagency collaboration measure, the respondent 
is identified as a CAM-FTDC staff member. It is estimated that 10 CAM-
FTDC staff members from each of the 12 grantees will complete the 
interagency collaboration measure. The estimated total cost of the time 
that will be spent completing data collection is $18,400 (total number 
of respondent hours x $18.40, the estimated average hourly wages for 
adults as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010).

                                        Exhibit 1--Annualized Hour Burden
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                                                  Number of    Responses      Total      Hours per    Total hour
                Form/instrument                    records     per record   responses   response\1\     burden
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CAM Form-Secondary extraction (12 sites x 20             240            2          480          .5         240
 families).....................................
North Carolina Family Assessment Form--Scale-            240            2          480          .5         240
 General + Reunification (NCFAS-G+R) (12 sites
 x 20 families)................................
Collaborative Capacity Instrument--(CCI) (12             120            1          120          .33         39.6
 sites x 10 families)..........................
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    Total......................................          600  ...........        1,080  ...........        519.6
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\1\ The estimated response burden includes the extractions and uploads to the CAM Form and the North Carolina
  Family Assessment Form.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by September 16, 2011 to the 
SAMHSA Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely 
receipt of comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and 
processing of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are 
encouraged to submit their comments to OMB via e-mail to: [email protected]. Although commenters are encouraged to send 
their comments via e-mail, commenters may also fax their comments to: 
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management 
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.

Cathy J. Friedman,
SAMHSA, Public Health Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2011-20857 Filed 8-16-11; 8:45 am]
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