80 FR 28282 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 95 (May 18, 2015)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 95 (May 18, 2015)
| Page Range | 28282-28283 | |
| FR Document | 2015-11894 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 95 (Monday, May 18, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 28282-28283] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-11894] [[Page 28282]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer at (240) 276-1243. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Proposed Project: Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness (PATH) Program Annual Report (OMB No. 0930-0205)--Revision The Center for Mental Health Services awards grants each fiscal year to each of the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from allotments authorized under the PATH program established by Public Law 101-645, 42 U.S.C. 290cc-21 et seq., the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1990 (section 521 et seq. of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act). Section 522 of the PHS Act requires that the grantee states and territories must expend their payments under the Act solely for making grants to political subdivisions of the state, and to nonprofit private entities (including community-based veterans' organizations and other community organizations) for the purpose of providing services specified in the Act. Available funding is allotted in accordance with the formula provision of section 524 of the PHS Act. This submission is for a revision of the current approval of the annual grantee reporting requirements. Section 528 of the PHS Act specifies that not later than January 31 of each fiscal year, a funded entity will prepare and submit a report in such form and containing such information as is determined necessary for securing a record and description of the purposes for which amounts received under section 521 were expended during the preceding fiscal year and of the recipients of such amounts and determining whether such amounts were expended in accordance with statutory provisions. The proposed changes to the PATH Annual Report are as follows: 1. Format To create a PATH report that is easier to read and questions that are easier to understand, language has been made more concise and questions have been renumbered. 2. Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) Data Integration All data elements align with the 2014 HMIS Data Standards and can be extracted from HMIS. 3. Staff Training An element has been added to the Budget section to collect information about the number of trainings provided by PATH-funded staff. 4. Number of Persons Served This Reporting Period To decrease reporting burden and improve data quality, several revisions were made to the collection of information about persons outreached and persons enrolled. Data elements were updated to more clearly describe the data to be reported and reduce confusion and potential for misinterpretation. Information about persons outreached has been divided into two elements to collect specific information about the location of the outreach contact (street outreach or service setting). 5. Services Provided To improve data quality, several service category labels have been updated to more accurately reflect the type of service to be reported. The ``Screening and Assessment'' category has also been divided into two separate categories to capture specific information about screenings and clinical assessments provided by PATH staff. The ``Total number of times this service was provided'' column has been removed to reduce reporting burden. 6. Referrals Provided To improve data quality, several referral category labels have been updated to more accurately reflect the type of referral to be reported. The ``Total number of times this type of referral was provided'' column has been removed to reduce reporting burden. 7. Outcomes Elements collecting information regarding PATH program outcomes have been added. The PATH program's transition to using local HMIS to collect PATH client data allows data on client outcomes related to the PATH program to be more easily collected and reported. 8. Demographics Response categories for demographic data elements have been updated to fully align with the 2014 HMIS Data Standards. An element to gather information about PATH clients' connection to the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery program (SOAR) has also been added. To decrease reporting burden and improve the outreach and engagement process, demographic information for ``Persons contacted'' is no longer required. Providers are encouraged to gather information and build client records as early in the engagement process as possible. All demographic information should be collected by the point of PATH enrollment. 9. Definitions Definitions for PATH terms have been updated to streamline definitions and increase reliability of data reporting. The estimated annual burden for these reporting requirements is summarized in the table below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Burden per Respondents Number of Responses per response Total burden respondents respondent (hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- States.......................................... 56 1 20 1,120 Local provider agencies......................... 492 1 20 9,840 --------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 28283]] Total....................................... 548 .............. .............. 10,960 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, Room 2-1057, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 OR email her a copy at [email protected]. Written comments should be received by July 17, 2015. Summer King, Statistician. [FR Doc. 2015-11894 Filed 5-15-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4162-20-P
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Number of
Respondents per response Total burden
respondents respondent (hours)
Total .......................................................................................................... 548 ........................ ........................ 10,960
Send comments to Summer King, Telephone: (240) 276–1252, Fax: (240) 276– provides supplemental funding to states
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 2252, Email: holly.berilla@samhsa.hhs.gov. and territories for individual and
Room 2–1057, One Choke Cherry Road, Summer King, community crisis intervention services
Rockville, MD 20857 OR email her a Statistician, SAMHSA.
during a federal disaster.
copy at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. The CCP has provided disaster mental
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Written comments should be received health services to millions of disaster
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by July 17, 2015.
result of 30 years of accumulated
Summer King,
expertise, it has become an important
Statistician. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND model for federal response to a variety
[FR Doc. 2015–11894 Filed 5–15–15; 8:45 am] HUMAN SERVICES of catastrophic events. Recent State
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health CCPs include programs in New Jersey
Services Administration and New York following 2012 Hurricane
Sandy; two programs in Colorado, one
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND related to a wildfire and the second to
Agency Information Collection
HUMAN SERVICES a flood; a program in Oklahoma in the
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request aftermath of severe storms and
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
tornadoes in 2013; and programs in
Services Administration In compliance with Section Washington and Alaska related to
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork flooding and mudslides in 2014. These
Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment; Notice of Meeting Reduction Act of 1995 concerning programs have primarily addressed the
opportunity for public comment on short-term mental health needs of
Pursuant to Public Law 92–463, proposed collections of information, the communities through (a) outreach and
notice is hereby given that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health public education, (b) individual and
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will publish group counseling, and (c) referral.
Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) periodic summaries of proposed Outreach and public education serve
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment projects. To request more information primarily to normalize reactions and to
(CSAT) National Advisory Council will on the proposed projects or to obtain a engage people who might need further
meet on June 16, 2015, from 2:00 p.m.– copy of the information collection care. Crisis counseling assists survivors
3:15 p.m. (EDT) and June 24, 2016, from plans, call the SAMHSA Reports to cope with current stress and
2:00 p.m.—3:15 p.m. (EDT). Both Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. symptoms in order to return to
meetings will be closed to the public. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether predisaster functioning. Crisis
The meetings will include discussion the proposed collections of information counseling relies largely on ‘‘active
and evaluation of grant applications are necessary for the proper listening,’’ and crisis counselors also
reviewed by Initial Review Groups, and performance of the functions of the provide psycho-education (especially
involve an examination of confidential agency, including whether the about the nature of responses to trauma)
financial and business information as information shall have practical utility; and help clients build coping skills.
well as personal information concerning (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate Crisis counseling typically continues no
the applicants. Therefore, both meetings of the burden of the proposed collection more than a few times. Because crisis
will be closed to the public, as of information; (c) ways to enhance the counseling is time-limited, referral is
determined by the SAMHSA quality, utility, and clarity of the the third important functions of CCPs.
Administrator, in accordance with Title information to be collected; and (d) Counselors are expected to refer clients
5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and (6) and (c)(9)(B) ways to minimize the burden of the to formal treatment if the person has
and 5 U.S.C. App. 2, Section 10(d). collection of information on developed more serious psychiatric
The meetings will be held virtually. respondents, including through the use problems.
Meeting information and a roster of of automated collection techniques or Data about services delivered and
Council members may be obtained other forms of information technology. users of services will be collected
either by accessing the SAMHSA throughout the program period. The
Council Web site at: http:// Proposed Project: Data Resource data will be collected via the use of a
www.samhsa.gov/about-us/advisory- Toolkit Protocol for the Crisis toolkit that relies on standardized forms.
councils/csat-national-advisory-council Counseling Assistance and Training At the program level, the data will be
or by contacting LCDR Holly Berilla. Program (CCP)—Revision entered quickly and easily into a
Council Name: SAMHSA’s Center for The Substance Abuse and Mental cumulative database to yield summary
Health Services Administration’s tables for quarterly and final reports for
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Advisory Council. (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health the program. Additionally, we are in the
Date/Time/Type: June 16, 2015, 2:00 p.m.– Services (CMHS) as part of an process of developing and testing the
3:15 p.m. EDT, CLOSED; June 24, 2015, 2:00 interagency agreement with the Federal feasibility of using mobile devices for
p.m.–3:15 p.m. EDT, CLOSED. Emergency Management Agency data entry purposes. Because the data
Place: Virtual—Teleconference.
Contact: LCDR Holly Berilla, Acting (FEMA) provides a toolkit to be used for will be collected in a consistent way
Designated Federal Official, CSAT National the purposes of collecting data on the from all programs, they can be uploaded
Advisory Council, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Crisis Counseling Assistance and or linked into an ongoing national
Rockville, Maryland 20857 (mail), Training Program (CCP). The CCP database that likewise provides CMHS
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