[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 193 (Wednesday, October 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69070-69071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24012]


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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: 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.

                                          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
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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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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by November 4, 2016 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 email to: 
[email protected]. Although commenters are encouraged to send 
their comments via email, 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.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2016-24012 Filed 10-4-16; 8:45 am]
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