[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 128 (Thursday, July 6, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31338-31339]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14083]
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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: State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis (Opioid STR)
Evaluation--NEW
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) recently awarded 57 grants to states and territories to help
address the national opioid crisis by increasing access to treatment,
reducing unmet treatment needs, and reducing opioid overdose related
deaths through the provision of prevention, treatment, and recovery
activities for opioid use disorder (OUD).
SAMHSA's Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality
(CBHSQ), will be conducting a cross-site evaluation of the Opioid STR
grant program. The proposed data collection is necessary to evaluate
how the Opioid STR state/territory grantees plan and implement
prevention, treatment and recovery services. Additionally, a subset of
communities/programs will be selected to participate in supplemental
evaluation activities designed to provide detailed information related
to the implementation of services at the program/community level, as
well as the impacts of the program on client outcomes.
SAMHSA has developed a set of interview protocols and survey
measures that will collect information from all state/territory
grantees (57), and subset (up to 20) of programs/communities that
provide services and activities funded by the grant. In addition,
SAMHSA's Performance Accountability and Reporting System (SPARS) will
be used to collect individual-level data using CSAT's Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA) for Discretionary Grant Programs
Client Outcome Measure (OMB No. 0930-0208) from individuals receiving
services from participating communities/programs.
Specific data collected as part of the Opioid STR evaluation
include the following:
State Survey: The State Survey will be administered to State
Project Directors/Program Managers to collect information about the
state/territory's current, planned, and implemented activities to
address opioid misuse using Opioid STR funding. State Surveys will be
administered three (3) times.
State Interview: The State Interview Protocol will be used to
collect information from the State Project Director/Program Manager
during phone interviews at two (2) time points. Interviews will collect
information about the state's substance abuse treatment systems prior
to STR funding, the types of activities states plan to implement with
STR funding, challenges and successes when implementing these
activities, and plans for sustaining the activities.
Community/Program Survey: The Community/Program Survey will be
administered to Community/Program Directors or Program Managers to
collect information about the community/program's readiness to
implement activities that address opioid misuse, their actual
implementation of activities to address opioid misuse, and initial
outcomes of their implemented activities. Community/Program Survey will
be administered three (3) times.
Community/Program Director/Manager Interview Protocol: The
Community/Program Director/Manager Interview Protocol will be used to
collect information from Community/Program Directors or Program
Managers during in-person site visits to each participating community/
program. Interviews will collect in-depth information about the
community's/program's implementation of activities to address opioid
misuse using Opioid STR funding, and factors facilitating and impeding
the implementation of STR-funded activities. Community/Program
Director/Manager Interviews will be conducted two (2) times.
Community/Program Data Manager Interview Protocol: The Community/
Program Data Manager Interview Protocol will be used to collect
information from Data Managers during in-person site visits to each
participating community/program. Interviews will collect in-depth
information about how the program used community/program-level data to
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inform the development and implementation of STR activities and how
data is being used to monitor the activities. Community/Program Data
Manager Interviews will be conducted two (2) times.
Community/Program Clinical Staff Interview Protocol: The Community/
Program Clinical Staff Interview Protocol will be used to collect
information from up to four (4) clinical staff members at each
participating community/program site. Interviews will collect
information on the factors that have facilitated and impeded past
activities to address opioid misuse, and clinicians' experiences
implementing STR-funded activities. Community/Program Clinical Staff
Interviews will be conducted two (2) times.
CSAT GPRA Client Outcome Measure: The CSAT GPRA Client Outcome
Measure will be used with each client served in the Communities/
Programs to collect data about client's progress as a result of
receiving services. This data will be collected at three (3) time
intervals: intake to services, 6 month follow-up, and at discharge.
Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden for the Opioid STR Measures
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total annual
SAMHSA program instruments respondents respondent responses response burden hours
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State-Level Evaluation (All STR-funded state/territories)
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State Survey--Baseline.......... 57 1 57 4 228
State Survey--Time 2............ 57 1 57 4 228
State Survey--Time 3............ 57 1 57 4 228
State Interview--Time 1......... 57 1 57 1.5 85.5
State Interview--Time 2......... 57 1 57 1.5 85.5
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Community/Program-Level Evaluation (Up to 20 funded programs/communities)
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Community/Program Director 20 1 20 1.5 30
Interview--Baseline............
Community/Program Clinical Staff 80 1 80 1.5 120
Interview--Baseline............
Community/Program Data Manager 20 1 20 1.5 30
Interview--Baseline............
Community/Program Director 20 1 20 1.5 30
Interview--Time 2..............
Community/Program Clinical Staff 80 1 80 1.5 120
Interview--Time 2..............
Community/Program Data Manager 20 1 20 1.5 30
Interview--Time 2..............
Community/Program Director 20 1 20 3 60
Survey--Baseline...............
Community/Program Director 20 1 20 3 60
Survey--Time 2.................
Community/Program Director 20 1 20 3 60
Survey--Time 3.................
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Individual clients
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Baseline/Intake Interview....... 1,000 1 1,000 .52 520
Follow-up Interview \1\......... 800 1 800 .52 416
Discharge Interview \2\......... 520 1 520 .52 270.4
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Total....................... 2,905 .............. 2,905 .............. 2,601
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Notes:
1. It is estimated that 80% of baseline clients will complete this interview.
2. It is estimated that 52% of baseline clients will complete this interview.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by August 7, 2017 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. 2017-14083 Filed 7-5-17; 8:45 am]
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