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Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Child Health and Human Development 

Special Emphasis Panel; ‘‘Mouse Model of 

Dyslexia Risk Genes’’. 

Date: November 21, 2014. 

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6100 

Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852, 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Rita Anand, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Branch, National Institute of Child Health 

and Human Development, NIH, 6100 

Executive Blvd. Room 5B01, Bethesda, MD 

20892, (301) 496–1487, anandr@

mail.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Child Health and Human Development 

Special Emphasis Panel; ‘‘Children Imaging 

Program Project’’. 

Date: November 25, 2014. 

Time: 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6100 

Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852, 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Joanna Kubler-Kielb, 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health and Human 

Development, 6100 Executive Boulevard, 

Room 5B01, Bethesda, MD 20892–7510, 301– 

435–6916, kielbj@mail.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Child Health and Human Development 

Special Emphasis Panel. 

Date: December 5, 2014. 

Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6100 

Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852, 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Peter Zelazowski, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health and Human 

Development, NIH, 6100 Executive 

Boulevard, Rm. 5B01, Bethesda, MD 20892– 

7510, 301–435–6902, peter.zelazowski@

nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Child Health and Human Development 

Special Emphasis Panel; Human Structural 

Birth Defects. 

Date: December 11, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Hilton Washington/Rockville, 1750 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. 

Contact Person: Sherry L Dupere, Ph.D., 

Chief, Scientific Review Branch, Scientific 

Review Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver 

National Institute of Child Health and 

Human Development, NIH, 6100 Executive 

Boulevard, Room 5B01, Bethesda, MD 

20892–7510, 301–451–3415, duperes@

mail.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.864, Population Research; 

93.865, Research for Mothers and Children; 

93.929, Center for Medical Rehabilitation 

Research; 93.209, Contraception and 

Infertility Loan Repayment Program, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: October 3, 2014. 

Michelle Trout, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

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National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Environmental 

Health Sciences; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is 

hereby given of the following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The contract proposals and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the contract 

proposals, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Environmental Health Sciences Special 

Emphasis Panel; Quality Assessment 

Support. 

Date: October 30, 2014. 

Time: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate contract 

proposals. 

Place: National Institute of Environmental 

Health Sciences, Keystone Building, Room 

K–3118, 530 Davis Drive, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27709 (Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: RoseAnne M McGee, 

Associate Scientific Review Administrator, 

Scientific Review Branch, Division of 

Extramural Research and Training, Nat. 

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 

P.O. Box 12233, MD EC–30, Research 

Triangle Park, NC 27709, (919) 541–0752, 

mcgee1@niehs.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.115, Biometry and Risk 

Estimation—Health Risks from 

Environmental Exposures; 93.142, NIEHS 

Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety 

Training; 93.143, NIEHS Superfund 

Hazardous Substances—Basic Research and 

Education; 93.894, Resources and Manpower 

Development in the Environmental Health 

Sciences; 93.113, Biological Response to 

Environmental Health Hazards; 93.114, 

Applied Toxicological Research and Testing, 

National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: October 3, 2014. 

Carolyn Baum, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

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National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Biomedical 

Imaging and Bioengineering; Notice of 

Closed Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is 

hereby given of the following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 

Special Emphasis Panel; NIBIB 2015–01 R13 

Review. 

Date: November 25, 2014. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, Two 

Democracy Plaza, Suite 920, 6707 Democracy 

Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, (Virtual 

Meeting). 

Contact Person: Ruixia Zhou, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, 6707 Democracy 

Boulevard, Suite 957, Bethesda, MD 20892, 

301–496–4773, zhour@mail.nih.gov. 

Dated: October 2, 2014. 

David Clary, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review Notice of 

Closed Meetings 

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Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is 

hereby given of the following meetings. 

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The meetings will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR Panel: 

Multidisciplinary Studies of HIV/AIDS and 

Aging. 

Date: October 29, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Contact Person: Robert Freund, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5216, 

MSC 7852, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435– 

1050, freundr@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR–13– 

080: Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse 

Research Using Existing Data. 

Date: October 31, 2014. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: George Vogler, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3140, 

MSC 7770, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 237– 

2693, voglergp@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR Panel: 

Improvement of Animal Models for Stem Cell 

Based Regenerative Medicine. 

Date: November 3–4, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Jonathan Arias, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5170, 

MSC 7840, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435– 

2406, ariasj@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Member 

Conflict: Neurological, Aging and 

Musculoskeletal Epidemiology. 

Date: November 3, 2014. 

Time: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: George Vogler, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3140, 

MSC 7770, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 237– 

2693, voglergp@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; AREA Grant 

Review. 

Date: November 3, 2014. 

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Michael M. Sveda, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 2204, 

MSC 7890, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435– 

3565, svedam@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Member 

Conflicts: Hepatobiliary Pathophysiology and 

Pharmacology. 

Date: November 4, 2014. 

Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Patricia Greenwel, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 2178, 

MSC 7818, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435– 

1169, greenwep@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Member 

Conflict: Pulmonary fibrosis, lung injury, and 

lung development. 

Date: November 5–6, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Bradley Nuss, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4142, 

MSC7814, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–451– 

8754, nussb@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: AIDS and Related 

Research Integrated Review Group, AIDS 

Clinical Studies and Epidemiology Study 

Section. 

Date: November 5, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: The St. Regis Washington DC, 923 

16th Street NW., Washington, DC 20006. 

Contact Person: Hilary D Sigmon, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5222, 

MSC 7852, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 357– 

9236, sigmonh@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; 

Fellowships: Oncological Sciences. 

Date: November 6–7, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Hyatt Regency Bethesda, One 

Bethesda Metro Center, 7400 Wisconsin 

Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814. 

Contact Person: Ola Mae Zack Howard, 

Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Dr., Room 4192, MSC 

7806, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–451–4467, 

howardz@mail.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Small 

Business: Cell, Computational, and 

Molecular Biology. 

Date: November 6, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Doubletree Hotel Bethesda 

(Formerly Holiday Inn Select), 8120 

Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814. 

Contact Person: Maria DeBernardi, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 6158, 

MSC 7892, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435– 

1355, debernardima@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; 

Fellowships: Behavioral Neuroscience. 

Date: November 6–7, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Hotel Palomar, 2121 P Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20037. 

Contact Person: Kristin Kramer, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5205, 

MSC 7846, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 437– 

0911, kramerkm@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Small 

Business: Cardiovascular Sciences. 

Date: November 6–7, 2014. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Margaret Chandler, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4126, 

MSC 7814, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 435– 

1743, margaret.chandler@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; 

Fellowships: Genes, Genomes and Genetics. 

Date: November 6–7, 2014. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Bethesda Marriott Suites, 6711 

Democracy Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20817. 

Contact Person: Marie-Jose Belanger, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5181, 

MSC 7804, Bethesda, MD 20892, belangerm@

csr.nih.gov. 

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(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine; 

93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333, 

93.337, 93.393–93.396, 93.837–93.844, 

93.846–93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: October 3, 2014. 

Carolyn Baum, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health 

Services Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

Periodically, SAMHSA will publish a 

summary of information collection 

requests under the Office of 

Management and Budget (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: Identifying Core Competencies 

of Peer Workers in Behavioral Health 

Services (Behavioral Health Services) 

—NEW 

SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health 

Services’ project, Bringing Recovery 

Supports to Scale Technical Assistance 

Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) is 

requesting OMB’s approval for a data 

collection project entitled, ‘‘Identifying 

Core Competencies of Peer Workers in 

Behavioral Health Services.’’ The BRSS 

TACS team intends to use two 

instruments to collect original data to 

inform the ongoing development of core 

competencies for peer workers in 

behavioral health care services. These 

instruments are: 

• Core Competencies Survey with Peer 

Workers 

• Telephone Interview of Peer Workers 

The primary purpose for this 

information is to appraise the 

importance of specific competencies to 

the work of peer workers who are 

currently employed in behavioral health 

settings. The Core Competencies Survey 

will collect peer workers’ ratings of the 

importance of different competencies to 

their work. The Telephone Interview of 

Peer Workers will collect peer workers’ 

experiences with and opinions about 

the competencies on the survey. They 

will also be asked how they might use 

the competencies in their work. The 

Core Competencies Survey and the 

Telephone Interview are seen as critical 

to the development of core 

competencies for peer workers because 

they integrate the perspective of people 

who are currently employed as peer 

workers in the behavioral health care 

workforce and have been judged as 

competent by another colleague. 

While peer workers have become 

critical components of recovery-oriented 

systems, paid peer positions and roles 

are relatively new additions to the 

behavioral health workforce. There are 

basic questions about how to define 

these roles. There are additional 

uncertainties about how best to prepare 

people in recovery for the role of peer 

worker and how to supervise and 

evaluate the job performance of peer 

workers. Developing a set of core 

competencies is an important step in 

responding to these questions and may 

be a valuable activity in expanding peer 

roles in behavioral health. 

Although training programs for peer 

workers in the behavioral health system 

have existed for over a decade, there 

have been no attempts to standardize 

the content or the models of training. To 

date, no national consensus defines 

standards for peer worker training 

programs. Training programs differ in 

length, ranging from 30 to 105 hours of 

face-to-face training and vary widely in 

the knowledge and skills that they teach 

trainees (SAMHSA, 2012). 

The Core Competency Project will 

describe the foundational knowledge, 

skills, and attitudes required by peer 

workers to perform their roles in a wide 

variety of behavioral health programs 

and services. Peer-provided recovery 

support services typically involve 

providing social support, linking people 

to community resources, assisting with 

decision-making activities, and a host of 

educational and recreational activities 

(CSAT, 2009; SAMHSA, 2012). In 

addition, peer workers facilitate 

educational and support groups and 

advocate for service improvements. 

SAMHSA defines peer-provided 

recovery support as, ‘‘a set of nonclinical, peer-based activities that 

engage, educate and support an 

individual successfully to make life 

changes necessary to recover from 

disabling mental illness and/or 

substance use disorder conditions’’ 

(CSAT, 2009). While some peer workers 

are performing advanced or specialized 

competencies within the behavioral 

health field, the core competencies 

described will include the foundational 

competencies required by all peer 

workers working in a variety of 

environments and with a diversity of 

people. 

It is critical to communicate to the 

behavioral health field and behavioral 

health authorities about the 

foundational knowledge, skills, and 

attitudes needed by peer workers. 

Because of the anticipated continued 

demand for peers in the behavioral 

health workforce, SAMHSA has 

prioritized the development of peerdelivered recovery support services 

across mental health and substance use 

disorder services. In an effort to deliver 

services of uniformly high quality, the 

core competencies of peer workers will 

be described so that states and other 

credentialing bodies will be able to 

establish uniform standards for peer 

workers. 

In addition, clear descriptions of core 

competencies will assist behavioral 

health authorities with their strategic 

workforce planning efforts. The 

description of core competencies will 

inform services and peer workforce 

training programs of the basic 

requirements needed by peer workers in 

behavioral health services. The 

competencies will provide guidance to 

behavioral health programs when 

writing job descriptions and 

performances evaluations. In many 

communities, job descriptions lack 

uniformity and specificity and do not 

reflect accurately the focus of peerprovided recovery support services. 

The results of these surveys will 

contribute to the creation of competency 

descriptions that will provide guidance 

to organizations, programs, states, and 

regions to strengthen their peer 

workforce development efforts. These 

core competencies will inform training 

programs and state certification entities 

about the essential skills, knowledge, 

and attitudes needed by peer workers in 

a range of roles in behavioral health 

services. Currently, 33 states offer 

certification for their peer workers and 

a growing number of states use 

Medicaid funds to reimburse for peer 

support services (Daniels et al., 2014). 

Despite the growth of the behavioral 

health peer workforce; there are 

inconsistencies in the requirements for 

these certifications across different 

states. 

For behavioral health organizations 

and programs, core competencies will 

provide guidance for job descriptions 

for peer workers and improve the 

recruitment of potential workers by 

providing fair and unbiased criteria for 

hiring and making sure everyone is 

assessed against the same framework. 

Core competency descriptions have the 

potential to strengthen the workforce 

through improved training and 

preparation of peer workers. Behavioral 

health programs and organizations can 

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