[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 218 (Thursday, November 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67393-67394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28609]


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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 list 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 (301) 443-7978.
    Administrative Reporting Form (ARF) for the Women, Co-occurring 
Disorders and Violence Cooperative Agreement Program (Phase II)--New--
The Women, Co-occurring Disorders, and Violence Study is funded by 
SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Center for 
Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), and Center for Mental Health 
Services (CMHS) to produce knowledge on the development and 
effectiveness of integrated services for women with co-occurring mental 
health and substance abuse disorders who are victims of violence. 
Fourteen sites were funded in Phase I, and ten sites are expected to be 
funded in Phase II. During Phase I of the study (2 years), sites 
developed integrated service models. In Phase II, sites that 
successfully reapplied will test their interventions in a multi-site 
outcome study contrasting comprehensive, integrated, trauma-specific 
and Consumer/Survivor/Recovering Person (C/S/R) involved services to 
services as usual.
    The Administrative Reporting Form (ARF) is a program monitoring 
instrument which is to be completed jointly by the project director, 
project staff members, and directors of participating organizations at 
each study site annually. The ARF collects information about the 
staffing and governance of each project, project accomplishments in the 
previous year, and specific project components.
    Information collected with the ARF will be used in three ways. 
First, evaluators will use information from the ARF to describe the 
process of project

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implementation at each of the study sites. This information will 
ultimately contribute to ``how-to'' knowledge products for communities 
attempting to integrate services. Second, site visiting teams will use 
information from the ARF in their assessments of the sites and will 
make recommendations to each site of how the site can improve its 
project. Third, descriptive information from the ARF will be used to 
characterize each site's intervention in terms of the players involved, 
the services provided, the manner in which those services are 
integrated, and the manner in which C/S/R persons are involved. These 
characterizations will inform the interpretation of the client-level 
data in the outcome study.
    The estimated annual burden for these reporting requirements is 
summarized below.

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                                                                                      Burden/
                 Respondent type                     Number of      Responses/       response      Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hours)          hours
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Project Directors...............................             10               1              10             100
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Stuart Shapiro, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: November 2, 2000.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 00-28609 Filed 11-8-00; 8:45 am]
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