[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 242 (Friday, December 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79011-79012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-31721]


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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: Cross-Site Evaluation for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals 
(GBHI)--NEW

    SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is conducting 
a cross-site external evaluation of the impact of the Grants for the 
Benefit of Homeless Individuals (GBHI) program. GBHI is a grant program 
that links substance abuse and mental health treatment with housing and 
other needed services and expands and strengthens these services for 
people with substance use and co-occurring mental health problems who 
are homeless. The national cross-site evaluation will assess the 
effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of the GBHI project 
services for client abstinence, housing stability, homelessness, and 
related employment, criminal justice and services outcomes, as well as 
lessons learned to inform future efforts.

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    The CSAT GBHI Client Interview--Baseline and the CSAT GBHI Client 
Interview--6-Month Follow-up have been developed to assess program 
impact on client outcomes based on review of the literature and 
consultation with a panel of national experts, GBHI grantees and 
SAMHSA. The CSAT GBHI Client Interview is composed of questions unique 
from the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Tool that 
measure the outcomes of interest and subpopulations of focus: 
homelessness, housing, treatment history, readiness to change, trauma 
symptoms, housing and treatment choice, burden and satisfaction, 
military service, employment, and criminal justice involvement. 
Immediately following the SAMHSA-required administration of the GPRA 
CSAT Discretionary Services Client Level Tool, which is completed by 
enrolled accepted clients for each grantee project at baseline and 6-
month follow-up, the paper and pencil CSAT GBHI Client Interview will 
be administered face-to-face by the GPRA interviewer. Questions 
regarding perception of care and treatment coercion will be self-
administered by participating clients and returned to the interviewer 
in a sealed envelope to be included in the full package mailed to the 
cross-site evaluation coordinating center by the interviewer. Client 
participation is voluntary; non-cash incentives will be given at 
baseline worth a $10 value and at 6-month follow-up worth a $25 value. 
Clients will be assigned unique identifiers by local projects; 
responses will be recorded on a fill-in-the-bubble answer sheet, mailed 
by the grantee project to the cross-site evaluation coordinating 
center, and scanned into a secure dataset. This process will eliminate 
the need for data entry, reduce cost and data entry error, and ensure 
confidentiality for cross-site data.
    The CSAT GBHI Stakeholder Survey will be conducted with GBHI 
program stakeholders via a web survey to assess the types of 
stakeholder partnerships involved in the GBHI program and the barriers 
and strategies developed to overcome barriers to facilitate the 
implementation and sustainability of project activities under the GBHI 
program. Each survey respondent will be issued a username and password 
to login to and complete the secure web-based survey. The web-based 
survey format will reduce burden on the respondent and minimize 
potential for measurement error.

                                       Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                     Number of                        Average      Total burden
       Instrument/activity           Number of     responses per   Total number     burden per       hours per
                                    respondents     respondent     of responses      response       collection
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CSAT GBHI Client Interview:
    Baseline Data Collection....           5,885               1           5,885             .33           1,942
    6-month Follow-up Data                 4,708               1           4,708             .40           1,883
     Collection (80% of
     baseline)..................
CSAT GBHI Stakeholder Survey....             648               1             648             .28             181
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    Total.......................          11,241  ..............          11,241  ..............           4,006
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by January 18, 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: 202-395-5806.

    Dated: December 13, 2010.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Management, Technology and Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-31721 Filed 12-16-10; 8:45 am]
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