[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 77 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23501-23503]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09215]
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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: Now Is the Time (NITT)--Project AWARE (Advancing
Wellness and Resilience in Education) Evaluation--New
SAMHSA is conducting a national evaluation of the Now is the Time
(NITT) initiative, which includes separate programs--NITT Project AWARE
(Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education)--State Educational
Agency (SEA), Healthy Transitions (HT), and two Minority Fellowship
Programs (Youth and Addiction Counselors). These programs are united by
their focus on capacity building, system change, and workforce
development.
NITT--Project AWARE, which is the focus of this data collection,
represents a response to the third and fourth components of President
Obama's NITT Initiative: Making schools safer and focusing on access to
mental health services. The goal of NITT--Project AWARE is to develop a
comprehensive, coordinated, and integrated program for advancing
wellness and resilience in educational settings for school-aged youth.
SAMHSA awarded NITT--Project AWARE grants to 20 SEAs. Each SEA
proposed partnerships between at least three high-need Local
Educational Agencies (LEAs) to develop a coordinated and integrated
plan of services and strategies to address the Project NITT--Project
AWARE-SEA goals and objectives. Project AWARE grantees will plan and
implement activities designed to increase the capacity of SEAs in three
areas: (1) Increase mental health awareness among school-aged (K-12)
youth; (2) train those who work with school-aged children to identify
and respond to mental health issues in children and young adults; and
(3) connect children, youth, and families with mental health services.
The intention is to encourage cross-system collaboration and use
evidence-based strategies to address mental health needs.
The Project AWARE evaluation will examine the process and outcomes
of activities by SEA grantees and their LEA and school partners. It
will evaluate the capacity of SEAs to effectively involve family and
youth, provide a culturally and linguistically competent and family-
centered mental health service array, and implement a process for
identifying need and delivering services that is informed by data and
coordinated across child-serving agencies. Evaluation questions have
been developed to understand grantee context, planning, implementation,
outputs, and outcomes across each of the NITT priority areas. Data
collection efforts that will support the evaluation are described
below.
AWARE Planning and Implementation Activities Inventory (AWARE
Activities Inventory), to capture information about all activities
supported by Project AWARE resources during the grant period. The
inventory will be reviewed and updated on an annual basis at the SEA
level with the grant project director, at the LEA level with the grant
program coordinators,
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and at the school level with coordinators in each participating school.
The questionnaires will guide review and input of additional
information as needed for all activities captured in the AWARE
Activities Inventory and conducted under Project AWARE. Each
questionnaire will be conducted annually to review and update the AWARE
Activities Inventory with 20 SEA-level respondents, 62 LEA-level
respondents, and 432 school-level respondents.
SEA Collaborative Partner Survey (SEA-CPS), to collect information
about collaborative processes and partnerships at the state level to
examine the networks involved in successful information sharing and
collaborations across child-serving agencies and the families and youth
they serve. SAMHSA estimates that there will be 24 collaborative
partner respondents at each SEA grantee who will complete the annual
SEA-CPS.
Local Educational Agency Collaborative Partner Survey (LEA-CPS), to
collect information about collaborative processes and partnerships at
the local level to examine the networks involved in successful
information sharing and collaborations across child-serving agencies
and the families and youth they serve. The survey will be administered
twice during the grant period, with 15 respondents in each of the 62
LEAs.
Collaborative Partner Interview Guide, to collect qualitative
information about collaborative processes and partner roles.
Approximately 160 core staff (8 SEA-level collaborative partners in
each SEA grantee) are expected to participate in annual in-person and
telephone interviews.
School Information Systems Data Abstraction Protocol, to capture
information from existing school information systems about student
socio-demographics, school climate, and school safety. The data
abstraction protocol will detail the procedure through which the
national evaluation team will abstract data from each LEA or school
information system. These data will be requested annually to cover
school-level measures from the 2014-2015 through 2018-2019 school
years. School-level information will be collected at the school level
for all sample schools (N = 432), but the number of respondents is
calculated based on whether the school information systems are
consistent across SEAs and/or LEAs, or whether they vary from school to
school. Based on preliminary discussions with the grantees, SAMHSA
estimates that five SEA grantees will be able to provide data for all
sample schools in the SEA (N = 5 SEA respondents), the data will be
provided from LEAs in ten of the SEA grantees (N = 30 LEA respondents),
and the remaining five SEA grantees will have school information
systems and surveys that differ at the school level (N = 90 school
respondents). Therefore 125 respondents will provide the secondary data
that covers the 432 sample schools.
Teacher Mental Health Literacy Survey, to assess the mental health
literacy and associated knowledge and skills of teachers in selected
schools participating in Project AWARE activities. This survey will be
administered twice to a random sample of teachers in selected schools
in partner LEAs, stratified by school type and size. An average sample
size of approximately 24 teachers will be selected from each of the 432
schools selected to participate in the school-level coordinator
questionnaire data collection.
Existing Teacher and Student Survey Data Abstraction Protocols, to
compile information from existing surveys to examine school climate and
safety. The data abstraction protocol will be customized for each SEA
based on the specific data collected by each state. Data from existing
teacher and student surveys in selected schools (N = 432) participating
in the national evaluation will be provided to the national evaluation
on an annual basis. The number of respondents is calculated based on
whether the existing student and teacher surveys are consistent across
SEAs and/or LEAs, or whether they vary from school to school. Based on
preliminary discussions with the grantees, SAMHSA estimates that 125
respondents will provide the secondary student and teacher survey data
that covers the 432 sample schools.
Student Focus Groups Protocol, to collect qualitative information
about student perceptions of school climate; ability to identify signs
of mental, behavioral, or emotional health issues; and student
knowledge of school- and community-level service access. The evaluation
team will conduct these focus groups during site visits conducted in
2016 and 2019. The guided discussion protocol will focus on
participants' general knowledge of available resources, programs to
support AWARE activities, and overall perceptions of school climate and
safety. The focus groups will be conducted with approximately 8-10
students in each of four schools from one LEA associated with each SEA
grantee, for a total of no more than 800 students participating in
focus groups at each of the two site visits. Each focus group will last
approximately one and a half hours.
Annualized 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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SEA leadership questionnaire.... 20 1 20 1 20
LEA coordinator questionnaire... 62 1 62 1 62
School coordinator questionnaire 432 1 432 1 432
SEA-Collaborative Partner Survey 480 1 480 0.5 240
LEA-Collaborative Partner Survey 930 1 930 0.5 465
Collaborative partner interviews 160 1 160 1 160
Teacher mental health literacy 10,368 1 10,368 0.5 5,184
survey.........................
Student focus groups............ 800 1 800 1.5 1,200
School information systems data 125 1 125 1.5 188
abstraction....................
Student survey data abstraction. 125 1 125 1.5 188
Teacher school climate and 125 1 125 1.5 188
school safety survey...........
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TOTAL....................... \a\ 13,377 .............. 13,627 .............. 8,327
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* This is an unduplicated count of total respondents.
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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 June 20, 2016.
Summer King,
Statistician.
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