[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 8 (Monday, January 13, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2188-2189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00364]


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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 (SAMHSA) 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: Evaluation of SAMHSA Homeless Programs (OMB No. 0930-
0320)--Extension

    SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and Center for 
Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is conducting an external evaluation 
of the impact of the Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals 
(GBHI) and Services in Supportive Housing (SSH) programs. GBHI/SSH 
grant programs link substance abuse and mental health treatment with 
housing and other needed services and expand and strengthen these 
services for people with substance use and co-occurring mental health 
problems who are homeless. The national cross-site evaluation will 
assess the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of the GBHI/SSH 
project services for client abstinence, housing stability, 
homelessness, and related employment, criminal justice and services 
outcomes, as well as lessons learned to inform future efforts.
    The Client Interview--Baseline and the Client Interview--6-Month 
Follow-up have been developed to assess program impact on client 
outcomes based on review of the literature and consultation with a 
panel of national experts, grantees and SAMHSA. The Client Interview is 
comprised of questions (unique from the Government Performance and 
Results Act (GPRA) Client-Level Tool and the National Outcome Measures 
(NOMS) Client-Level Measures) that measure the outcomes of interest and 
subpopulations of focus: homelessness, housing, treatment history, 
readiness to change, trauma symptoms, housing and treatment choice, 
burden and satisfaction, military service, employment, and criminal 
justice involvement. Immediately following the SAMHSA-required 
administration of the GPRA/NOMS client-level tools, which are completed 
by enrolled accepted clients for each grantee project at baseline and 
6-month follow-up, the paper and pencil Client Interview will be 
administered face-to-face by the GPRA/NOMS interviewer. Questions 
regarding perception of care and treatment coercion will be self-
administered by participating clients and returned to the interviewer 
in a sealed envelope to be included in the full package mailed to the 
evaluation coordinating center by the interviewer. Client participation 
is voluntary; non-cash incentives will be given at baseline worth a $10 
value and at 6-month follow-up worth a $25 value. Clients will be 
assigned unique identifiers by local projects; responses will be 
recorded on a fill-in-the-bubble answer sheet, mailed by the grantee 
project to the evaluation coordinating center, and scanned into a 
secure dataset. This process will eliminate the need for data entry, 
thereby reducing cost and potential for data entry error, and ensuring 
privacy for evaluation data.
    The Stakeholder Survey will be conducted with GBHI/SSH program 
stakeholders via a web survey to assess the types of stakeholder 
partnerships involved in the GBHI/SSH programs and the barriers and 
strategies developed to overcome barriers to facilitate the 
implementation and sustainability of project activities under the GBHI/
SSH programs. Each survey respondent will be issued a username and 
password to login to and complete the secure web-based survey. The web-
based survey format will reduce burden on the respondent and minimize 
potential for measurement error.

                                       Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                     Number of                        Average      Total burden
       Instrument/activity           Number of     responses per   Total number     burden per       hours per
                                    respondents     respondent     of responses      response       collection
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Client Interview:
    Baseline Data Collection....           5,885               1           5,885             .33           1,942
    6-month Follow-up Data                 4,708               1           4,708             .40           1,883
     Collection (80% of
     baseline)..................
Stakeholder Survey..............             648               1             648             .28             181
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    Total.......................          11,241  ..............          11,241  ..............           4,006
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    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 2-1057, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 OR email her a 
copy at [email protected]. Written comments should be received 
by March 14, 2014.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2014-00364 Filed 1-10-14; 8:45 am]
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