[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 43 (Friday, March 4, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 12126]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-4870]


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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: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline--Crisis Center Survey--
NEW

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services funds a National Suicide 
Prevention Lifeline Network, a system of toll-free telephone numbers 
that routes calls from anywhere in the United States to a network of 
more than 147 certified crisis centers that can link callers to local 
emergency, mental health, and social service resources. The technology 
permits calls to be directed immediately to a suicide prevention worker 
who is geographically closest to the caller.
    Through its grantee which is administering the National Suicide 
Prevention Lifeline Network, SAMHSA developed a Crisis Center Survey in 
an effort to learn more about the capacities, skills, and unmet needs 
of the crisis centers involved in the Network. The completed Surveys 
will inform the Network's planning around technological capacity, 
network recruitment strategies, training, marketing, and other network 
resource development activities. The goal of this effort is to ensure 
that the telephonic routing system remains accurate, enhance quality 
services provided by networked crisis centers, increase service 
accessibility to people at risk for suicidal behavior, and optimize 
public health efforts to prevent suicide and suicidal behavior.
    All 147 networked crisis centers will complete the Web-based Crisis 
Center Survey annually. The Survey requests information about 
organizational structure, staffing, scope of services, call center 
operations, quality assurance, community outreach/marketing, telephone 
equipment, data collection, and technical assistance needs.
    The estimated annual response burden to collect this information is 
as follows:

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                                                                                      Burden/
           Instrument                Number of      Responses/     Total number      response      Annual burden
                                    respondents     respondent     of responses       (hours)         (hours)
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National Suicide Prevention                  147               1             147               2             294
 Lifeline: Crisis Center Survey.
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by April 4, 2011 to: SAMHSA Desk 
Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management and 
Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503; due to potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing of mail 
sent through the U.S. Postal Service, respondents are encouraged to 
submit comments by fax to: 202-395-7285.

    Dated: February 25, 2011.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Management, Technology and Operations.
[FR Doc. 2011-4870 Filed 3-3-11; 8:45 am]
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