[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 110 (Wednesday, June 8, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33323-33324]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14095]
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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: 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 HR 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.
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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/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 per Total Hours per Total hour
Form/Instrument records record responses response \1\ burden
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CAM Form--Secondary extraction 240 2 480 .5 240
(12 sites x 20 families)......
North Carolina Family 240 2 480 .5 240
Assessment Form--Scale-General
+ Reunification (NCFAS - G +
R) (12 sites x 20 families)...
Collaborative Capacity 120 1 120 .33 39.6
Instrument--(CCI) (12 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.
Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 8-1099, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 or e-mail a
copy to [email protected]. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: May 27, 2011.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Management, Technology and Operations.
[FR Doc. 2011-14095 Filed 6-7-11; 8:45 am]
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