[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 208 (Tuesday, October 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64205-64207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25591]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)


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 at (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: Partnerships for Success Program Evaluation for 
Prevention Contract--New

    SAMHSA is conducting a cross-site evaluation of the Strategic 
Prevention Framework (SPF) Partnerships for Success (PFS) program, 
focusing on the PFS II cohort (first funded in 2012), PFS 2013 cohort 
(first funded in 2013), and PFS 2014 cohort (first funded in 2014) at 
both the grantee and community subrecipient levels. Grantees include 
states, jurisdictions, and tribal entities that subsequently fund 
community subrecipients to implement substance use prevention 
interventions. The overall goals of these SPF PFS cohorts is to prevent 
the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse, prioritizing 
underage drinking (UAD)

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among people age 12 to 20, prescription drug misuse and abuse (PDM) 
among people age 12 to 25, or both; reduce substance abuse-related 
problems; strengthen prevention capacity and infrastructure at the 
grantee and community levels; and leverage, redirect, and align 
statewide funding streams and resources for prevention.
    The SPF-PFS cross-site evaluation broadly aims to document and 
assess the factors that contribute to the effectiveness of the PFS 
approach to SAMHSA's mission of reducing UAD and PDM, including costs, 
inputs, outputs, and contextual factors. Targeted evaluation outcomes 
include both grantee- and community-level substance use intervening 
variables (e.g., perceived risk of binge drinking), consumption (e.g., 
past year PDM), and consequences (e.g., alcohol or prescription drug 
overdoses), especially those related to UAD and PDM.
    The SPF-PFS cross-site evaluation will examine infrastructure, with 
a primary focus on monitoring grantees and community subrecipients to 
ensure they follow the SPF process, but will place a special emphasis 
on assessing capacity changes of the community subrecipients who all 
should be purposefully selected for their high need and low capacity. 
Another important aspect of the infrastructure evaluation for the SPF-
PFS cross-site will be an examination of leveraged partner 
relationships. In addition, the SPF-PFS cross-site evaluation will 
collect detailed data about implemented evidence-based interventions, 
to provide a comprehensive typology of interventions and assess how 
various types and combinations impact outcomes. The SPF-PFS cross-site 
also will examine economic issues, including associations between 
funding and outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of various intervention 
types and combinations.
    The SPF-PFS cross site evaluation is expected to have numerous 
program and policy implications and outcomes at the national, state, 
and community levels. It will provide valuable information to the 
prevention field about best practices in real world settings, along 
with what types of adaptations community implementers make to evidence 
based interventions to better fit their targeted populations and 
settings. SPF-PFS cross-site findings will provide guidance to 
governmental entities and communities as to what types of interventions 
should be funded and implemented to reduce UAD and PDM. More 
specifically, this guidance will include information on what 
combinations or types of interventions work the best. Beyond 
intervention type and cost, the SPF-PFS cross-site evaluation also will 
provide a valuable assessment of the importance of leveraged funding as 
well as providing information about the process states, jurisdictions, 
tribes, and communities undergo to leverage funding. Information and 
guidance about leveraging that comes from the SPF-PFS cross site 
evaluation will allow the federal government, state, tribes, 
jurisdictions, and local communities to more effectively and 
efficiently use their resources and sustain future prevention efforts.
    Data collection efforts for the evaluation include a Grantee-Level 
Instrument--Revised (GLI-R), a Community-Level Instrument--Revised 
(CLI-R), and a Project Director (PD) Interview which will collect key 
programmatic components hypothesized to be associated with program 
effectiveness, such as leveraged funding, type of prevention 
intervention, costs, etc. The SPF-PFS cross-site instruments have been 
informed by current and previous cross-site evaluation efforts for 
SAMHSA, drawing heavily from lessons learned through prior and 
currently Office of Management and Budget (OMB)-approved SPF-State 
Incentive Grant (SIG) evaluations (OMB No. 0930-0279).
    The GLI-R is a web-based instrument to be completed by the PFS II, 
2013, and 2014 grantee project directors (n=52), once at baseline and 
once in the final grant year. Baseline data for the PFS II and 2013 
cohorts will be collected retrospectively. The GLI-R will provide 
categorical, qualitative, and quantitative data related to coordination 
of state efforts, use of strategic plans, access to data sources, data 
management, workforce development, cultural competence, sharing of 
evaluation data, and sustainability.
    The CLI-R is a web-based instrument designed to be completed by the 
PFS II, 2013, and 2014 subrecipient community project directors (n=610) 
to assess subrecipients' progress through the SPF steps, prevention 
capacity, intervention implementation, and related funding and cost 
measures. The instrument will provide process data related to 
leveraging of funding, in-kind services, organizational capacity, 
collaboration with community partners, data infrastructure, planned 
intervention targets, intervention implementation (categorization, 
costs, adaptation, timing, dosage, and reach), cultural competence, 
evaluation, contextual factors, training and technical assistance 
needs, and sustainability. The CLI-R will be collected semiannually; 
however, not all questions will be answered every time. For instance, 
subrecipients will respond to items related to organizational capacity 
only at baseline and final follow-up, whereas they will respond to 
intervention implementation items every six months.
    The PD Interview is a semi-structured telephone interview with 
grantee project directors designed to collect more in-depth information 
on subrecipient selection, criteria for intervention selection, 
continuation of SPF-SIG activities, leveraging of funds, collaboration, 
evaluation activities, cultural competence policies, processes to 
impact health disparities, and challenges faced. The PD Interview will 
be collected at the beginning of the grant, in the third year of the 
grant, and in the final year of the grant. Baseline data for the PFS II 
and 2013 cohorts will be collected retrospectively and PFS II grantees 
will only participate in the interview at the beginning of their final 
year and at the close of their grant.

                                             Annualize Burden Hours
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                                    Number of     Responses per   Total number      Hours per      Total burden
           Instrument              respondents     respondent     of responses       response          hours
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GLI-RB.........................              17               1              17              1                17
SLI-R..........................             517               2           1,034              2.6           2,688
Grantee PD Interview...........              30               1              30              1.4              42
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    Annualized Total...........             564  ..............           1,081  ...............            2,47
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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 December 29, 2014.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2014-25591 Filed 10-27-14; 8:45 am]
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