[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 145 (Thursday, July 28, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49684-49685]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-17867]


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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: National Center of Excellence for Infant and Early 
Childhood Mental Health Consultation--NEW

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services, in partnership with the 
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the 
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announces the 
establishment of the National Center of Excellence (CoE) for Infant and 
Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC), a new program to 
advance the implementation of high-quality infant and early childhood 
mental health consultation across the nation through the development of 
tools, resources, training, technical assistance, and collaborative 
public and private partnerships. Its primary goals will be to promote 
the healthy social and emotional development of infants and young 
children and to prevent mental, emotional and behavioral disorders 
within this age group. Major activities for the CoE include convening a 
national expert workgroup and to lead the workgroup in developing a 
state-of-the-art Toolkit of the latest research and best practices for 
IECMHC (e.g., training, implementation, evaluation and financing) for 
early childhood settings, including early care and education and home 
visiting programs. The CoE will also create a dissemination and 
training plan for the Toolkit, and provide intensive training and 
technical assistance to states and tribes to help them build their 
capacity to implement, fund and evaluate IECMHC efforts successfully.
    To monitor the reach, implementation and impact of the CoE's 
multiple efforts, learn which practices work for which populations, and 
gauge overall applicability and utility of the Toolkit to infant and 
early childhood mental health consultation, the CoE intends to employ a 
variety of standardized process and outcome measures that have been 
specifically designed to reduce participant burden. Measures will 
explore the related professional background and experience of IECMHC 
participants, degree of satisfaction with IECMHC trainings and 
technical assistance (TTA), usefulness of the TTA, areas for 
improvement, scope of IECMHC implementation across the State or Tribe, 
and IECMHC impact on childcare and pre-K expulsion rates.
    Data-collection efforts will focus on two types of respondents: (1) 
Mental health consultants employed at maternal and child health, 
behavioral health, child care, Head Start, education and child welfare 
agencies, and (2) State or tribal representatives who have been 
selected to lead the implementation, expansion and sustainability of 
IECMHC in their state or tribal community.
    The mental health consultants will be asked to provide background 
information on their prior experience in the IECMHC field, feedback 
immediately following the trainings, and follow-up feedback 
approximately two months after receiving training and/or technical 
assistance. Specific sample questions will include level of 
satisfaction with the training/technical assistance, perceptions of 
knowledge acquired, intentions to use training content, extent of 
implementation of content, and opinions regarding the training's 
cultural appropriateness for its audience.
    State/tribal representatives will be asked to report on the reach 
and impact of the IECMHC program in the past year, level of 
satisfaction with IECMHC, suggested improvements for the program, and 
emerging state/tribal needs that the program could address. IECMHC 
mentors, whose primary role will be to work with the state/tribal 
representatives to implement the IECMHC Toolkit, will gather specific 
information from the representatives, including recommended IECMHC 
professional standards for mental health consultants, state- or tribal-
level evaluations of IECMHC impact, and financing for the continuation 
of IECMHC. For programs also receiving funding from the Maternal Infant 
and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, representatives 
will be asked to report on selected MIECHV outcome measures relating to 
maternal and newborn health; school readiness and achievement; and 
coordination and referrals for other community resources and supports.
    SAMHSA will use this data to determine whether funded activities 
are progressing as expected, provide guidance to improve how work is 
being conducted, assess the impact of IECMHC on child-serving systems, 
and inform subsequent national, state, tribal and community policy and 
planning decisions.

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                                          Estimate of Respondent Burden
                       [Note: Total burden is annualized over the 3-year clearance period]
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                                                  Average number
                                     Number of     of responses    Total number      Hours per     Total annual
           Instrument               respondents   per respondent   of responses      response      burden hours
                                                     per year
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Service Pre-Assessment Form.....             150               6             900            .167          150.30
Training Feedback Form..........             112               6             672            .167          112.22
Training Follow-up Form.........             112               4             448            .167           74.82
Technical Assistance Follow-up                30               6             180            .167           30.06
 Form...........................
IECMHC Cumulative Services                    17               1              17            .333            5.66
 Assessment Form................
IECMHC Annual and Quarterly                   17               4              68             1.5          102.00
 Benchmark Data Collection Forms
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    Totals......................             438              27           2,285  ..............          475.06
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    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15E57-B, Rockville, Maryland 20857, OR email a 
copy to [email protected]. Written comments should be received 
by September 26, 2016.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2016-17867 Filed 7-27-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4162-20-P