[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14456-14458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-06009]
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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
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(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: Survey of Current and Alumni SAMHSA Fellows of the Minority
Fellowship Program (MFP) (OMB No. 0930-0304)--REVISION
SAMHSA is requesting approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to revise the collection of surveys of current and alumni
MFP fellows to include current and alumni fellows from the Now Is The
Time-MFP-Youth (NITT-MFP-Y) and NITT-MFP-Addiction Counselors (NITT-
MFP-AC) grant programs. These surveys would gather information about
current and alumni fellows in all three programs that will help SAMHSA
meet its responsibilities under the Government Performance and Results
Modernization Act for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting
information about government-funded programs such as the MFP, the NITT-
MFP-Y, and the NITT-MFP-AC.
In 1973, in response to a substantial lack of ethnic and racial
minorities in the mental health professions, the Center for Minority
Health at the National Institute of Mental Health established the MFP.
Since its move to SAMHSA in 1992, the MFP has continued to facilitate
the entry of graduate students and psychiatric residents into mental
health careers and has increased the number of psychology, psychiatry,
nursing, and social work professionals trained to provide mental health
and substance abuse services to minority groups. In 2014, funds were
appropriated to expand the traditional MFP to include two programs to
support the President's NITT initiative: NITT-MFP-Y and NITT-MFP-AC.
These programs provide stipends and tuition support to students
pursuing master's level training in behavioral health fields like
psychology, social work, professional counseling, marriage and family
therapy, nursing, and addiction/substance abuse counseling, thus
directly supporting the NITT goal of increasing behavioral health
services for youth and contributing to making schools safer. The
traditional MFP offers sustained grants to six national behavioral
health professional associations: the American Association of Marriage
and Family Therapy (AAMFT), the American Nurses Association (ANA), the
American Psychiatric Association (ApA), the American Psychological
Association (APA), the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), and the
National Board for Certified Counselors and Affiliates (NBCC). The
grantees for the NITT-MFP-Y program are the AAFMT, ANA, APA, CSWE, and
NBCC, and the grantees for the NITT-MFP-AC program are the NAADAC--
Association for Addiction Professionals and NBCC.
This package includes two survey instruments, the Current SAMHSA
MFP Fellows survey and the MFP Alumni survey, which have previously
been administered to current and alumni fellows of the traditional MFP
grant program. SAMHSA is requesting approval from OMB to include
respondents (i.e., fellows) from the NITT-MFP-Y and NITT-MFP-AC
programs and to add 13 and 10 questions to the Current SAMHSA MFP
Fellows and MFP Alumni surveys, respectively. Although the aims of the
traditional MFP and the NITT-MFPs are similar, some aspects of the
NITT-MFPs are unique. For example, the focus on master's-level students
(versus doctoral) and on providing culturally competent behavioral
health services specifically to youth and transition-aged young adults.
Thus, approval is requested to add questions to the surveys to ensure
that the information needed to evaluate the NITT-MFPs is captured. The
surveys will include appropriate skip patterns so that traditional MFP
fellows are not asked questions that do not apply to them.
The two online surveys (with the option for a hard copy mailed
through the U.S. Postal Service) will be used with the following
stakeholders in the MFP grant programs:
1. Current SAMHSA MFP Fellows (n=428)
a. Current traditional MFP Fellows currently receiving support
during their doctoral-level training or psychiatric residency will be
asked about their experiences in the MFP (from recruitment into the
program through their participation in the various activities provided
by the grantees).
b. Current NITT-MFP-Y and NITT-MFP-AC Fellows currently receiving
support during the final year of their master's programs in behavioral
health or related field will be asked about their experiences in the
MFP (from recruitment into the program through their participation in
the various activities provided by the grantees).
2. MFP Alumni (n=1,440)
a. Traditional MFP Alumni who participated in the MFP during the
time the program was administered by SAMHSA will be asked about their
previous experiences as fellows in the MFP and also about their
subsequent involvement and leadership in their professions.
b. NITT-MFP-Y and NITT-MFP-AC Alumni who participated in the MFP
during their master's program will be asked about their previous
experiences as fellows in the MFP and also about their subsequent
involvement and leadership in their professions.
The information gathered by these two surveys will be used to gain
insights into, and to document, impacts that the MFP has had and is
having on current and former MFP fellows, and contributions and impacts
that the current and former fellows are making in their work. The
surveys include questions to assess the following measures: completion
of the fellowship program (e.g., completion of MFP goals, number of
mentors, total mentored hours); post-fellowship employment (e.g.,
employment types and fields, targeted service populations); increase in
skills/knowledge (e.g., number of certifications obtained, number of
continuing education hours); and contributions to the field (e.g.,
number of professional publications).
The survey data will also be utilized in an evaluation of the NITT-
MFP programs. The requested additional questions will allow the
evaluation to assess the overall success of the SAMHSA NITT initiative
in enhancing the behavioral health workforce in terms of the number of
master's level behavioral health specialists trained with MFP support,
their competencies and characteristics, and their capacity to meet
behavioral health workforce needs. The evaluation will also explore
whether the program results in increased knowledge, skills, and
aptitude among NITT-MFP fellows to provide culturally competent
behavioral health services to underserved, at risk children,
adolescents, and transition-age youth (ages 16-25); and how these new
behavioral health professionals are sustained in the workforce.
The total annual burden estimate for conducting the surveys is
shown below:
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Number of Responses per Total number Hours per Total burden
Survey name respondents respondent of responses response hours
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SAMHSA MFP Current Fellows 428 1 428 0.42 180
Survey.........................
SAMHSA MFP Alumni Survey........ 1,440 1 1,440 0.75 1,080
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Totals...................... \a\ 1,868 .............. 1,868 .............. 1,260
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\a\ This is an unduplicated count of total respondents.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by April 18, 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. 2016-06009 Filed 3-16-16; 8:45 am]
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