[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40333-40334]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-14587]
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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: Youth Programs Evaluation--NEW
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's
(SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is conducting a
cross-site external evaluation of three grantee programs that are
critical to its youth treatment grants portfolio. The three programs
include the 2013 Cooperative Agreements for State Adolescent and
Transitional Aged Youth Treatment Enhancement and Dissemination (SYT-
ED), the 2015 and 2016 Cooperative Agreements for State Adolescent and
Transitional Aged Youth Treatment Enhancement and Dissemination
Implementation (SYT-I), and the 2015 Cooperative Agreements for State
Adolescent and Transitional Aged Youth Treatment Enhancement and
Dissemination Planning (SYT-P).
Preventing and treating substance use and/or mental health
disorders are essential to SAMHSA's mission to reduce the impact of
behavioral health conditions in America's communities. The specific
populations (i.e., adolescents, youth) targeted by the youth programs
face a particular set of behavioral health risks and each of the grant
programs helps provide targeted services and evidence-based practices.
To evaluate the impact and success of SYT program implementation the
evaluation includes the following data collection tools:
Implementation Interview Guide
Sustainability Interview Guide
Stakeholder Interview Guide
Provider Survey
Focus Group guides
These data collection tools will provide essential information on
each grantee program beyond the performance monitoring data already
collected by SAMHSA.
The Implementation, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Interview
Guides are semi-structured interviews. They are designed to collect
data on information related to program implementation facilitators and
barriers, infrastructure development, factors related to
sustainability, and performance that will inform ongoing
recommendations to improve program performance and administration.
These interview guides were informed by interview guides used
successfully in other evaluations including the SAMHSA Access to
Recovery Evaluation, ASPE Medicaid Expansion Evaluation, and the SAMHSA
Homeless Programs Evaluations. Each interview is estimated to take
approximately one hour. SYT grantees and providers will participate in
an interview annually while their program is active. SYT program
stakeholders will participate once during the course of their
respective grant program. Stakeholders include other organizations or
agencies that serve or have a stake hold in helping this population,
such as other state/territory/tribe organizations (e.g., child welfare
organizations, justice agencies), other community-based providers, or
community advocacy groups. Grantee programs will be asked to complete
the implementation interview annually until the last year of the grant
program when they will be asked to complete the sustainability
interview. Respondents will include representatives from grantee,
provider and stakeholder organizations involved in the SYT programs.
The Provider Survey aims to collect data to help identify program
activities and services that are being implemented as part of the SYT
grant programs and the impact these activities/services may have on
client outcomes and treatment systems. Substance abuse service provider
organizations (e.g., treatment facilities implementing evidence-based
treatment practices) participating in SYT-ED or SYT-I grants will be
asked to participate in the survey.
The provider survey will collect data on linkages with the grantee
and within the youth substance use treatment system for providing
services and a safety net to adolescents, transition age youth, and
their families. Topics around grantee dissemination and outreach
efforts as well as evidence-based practices, program costs and other
training activities will also be explored. The Provider survey is
estimated to take approximately 1 hour and SYT-ED provider respondents
will complete the survey 2 times, once per year, during the cross-site
evaluation while SYT-I provider respondents will complete the survey 3
times, once per year.
The Focus Group guides aim to collect the clinicians' and other
direct care staff members' perspectives in implementing SYT services
and the facilitators, barriers and challenges providers encountered.
These data will provide valuable contextual data through which to
better understand the Provider Survey data. Clinicians/staff members
are uniquely qualified to answer implementation questions on a client,
staff and community level. The Focus Groups will allow clinicians/staff
members to provide important information around the impact of evidence-
based practices in the provider organization and within the community
they serve. Clinicians/staff members also will be asked about
expectations around evidence-based practices, the effectiveness of
implementing evidence-based practices, and the level of engagement from
their organization's leadership and the provider community as a whole.
Each provider in the SYT-ED and SYT-I grantee programs will
complete the Focus Group once and the estimated time per group is 1.5
hours. For each provider, an average of 6 respondents are expected to
join the Focus Group.
Estimated Annualized Total Cross-Program Data Collection Burden
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Number of Responses per Total number Hours per Total burden
Grantee cohort respondents respondent of responses response \a\ hours
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SYT-ED grantees........................................... 286 1 286 1 286
SYT-I grantees............................................ 377 1 377 1 377
SYT-P grantees............................................ 104 1 104 1 104
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Total................................................. 767 .............. 767 .............. 767
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\a\ Hours per response is an average annualized estimate.
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Estimated Annualized Total Burden by Data Collection Instrument/Activity
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Number of Responses per Total number Hours per Total burden
Instrument/activity respondents respondent of responses response \a\ hours
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Sustainability Interviews................................. 98 1 98 1 98
Implementation Interviews................................. 124 1 124 1 124
Stakeholder Interviews.................................... 183 1 183 1 183
Provider Survey........................................... 74 1 74 1 74
Focus groups.............................................. 288 1 288 1 288
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Total................................................. 767 .............. 767 .............. 767
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\a\ Hours per response is an average annualized estimate.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by July 21, 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. 2016-14587 Filed 6-20-16; 8:45 am]
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