[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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