81_FR_10684 81 FR 10644 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

81 FR 10644 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 40 (March 1, 2016)

Page Range10644-10645
FR Document2016-04419

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 40 (Tuesday, March 1, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10644-10645]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-04419]


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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: Now Is the Time (NITT)--Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) 
Evaluation--New

    SAMHSA is conducting a national evaluation of the Now is the Time 
(NITT) initiative, which includes separate programs--the Minority 
Fellowship Program--Youth (MFP-Y), the Minority Fellowship Program--
Addiction Counselors (MFP-AC), Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and 
Resilience in Education)--State Educational Agency, and Healthy 
Transitions. These programs are united by their focus on capacity 
building, system change, and workforce development.
    The NITT-MFP (Youth and Addiction Counselors) programs, which are 
the focus of this data collection, represent a response to the fourth 
component of President Obama's NITT Initiative: Increasing access to 
mental health/behavioral health services. The purpose of the NITT-MFP 
programs is to improve behavioral health care outcomes for underserved 
racially and ethnically diverse populations by increasing the number of 
culturally competent master's level behavioral health professionals and 
addiction counselors serving children, adolescents, and populations in 
transition to adulthood (ages 16-25) in an effort to increase access 
to, and quality of, behavioral health care for these age groups. The 
NITT-MFP--Youth program funded five grantees to each support up to 48 
master's level fellows per year committed to addressing the behavioral 
health needs of at risk children, adolescents, and transition-age youth 
(ages 16-25). The NITT-MFP--Addiction Counselors program funded two 
grantees to each support up to 30 master's level fellows per year in 
their final year of addiction counseling university programs, with a 
focus on providing culturally sensitive addiction counseling to 
underserved youth in the 16-25 age group.
    The NITT-MFP evaluation is designed to assess the level of success 
of the grantees in meeting the programs' goals and identify the factors 
that contribute to differences among grantees in levels of success. The 
evaluation includes both process and outcome evaluation components and 
will be supported by the data collection efforts described below. The 
information to be

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collected is necessary to (a) assess the effectiveness of the grantees' 
program recruitment strategies, (b) describe the services that the 
programs offer, and (c) assess whether NITT-MFP is meeting its goal of 
increasing the skilled workforce by increasing the number of behavioral 
health providers and addiction counselors providing services to 
underserved children, adolescents, and transition-age youth, 
particularly among racially/ethnically diverse populations.
    About 4 to 5 months after completion of their fellowship, a subset 
of fellow alumni will be asked to participate in the NITT-MFP Fellow 
Interview. These telephone interviews will collect detailed qualitative 
information on fellows' experiences that are not possible to collect in 
a survey. The interview is timed to collect fellows' impressions of 
their fellowship experiences before too much time has passed, as well 
as their initial labor market outcomes. The information collected will 
be used to assess the NITT-MFP program factors associated with 
employment and other post-fellowship outcomes. The interviewees will be 
asked to describe (1) their program, how they learned about it, and 
what led them to apply; (2) the effects of the program on their 
interest in working with at risk children, adolescents, and transition 
age youth from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds (and for 
MFP-AC fellows, in the area of addiction counseling); (3) whether the 
program improved their understanding of and ability to provide 
culturally competent services; (4) whether they completed their 
fellowship and the effects of the stipend on their education and 
career; (5) their current employment setting, and, if in behavior 
health services, the characteristics of their client population; (6) 
the role that their fellowship played in their job interests and job 
search; and (7) their satisfaction with the fellowship program and 
assessment of its impact on their career and professional activities. A 
maximum of 66 fellow alumni are expected to complete the NITT-MFP 
Fellow Interview per year; respondents will complete the telephone 
interview one time.

                                                                 Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                       Number of       Responses per   Total number of     Hours per       Total burden
                            Instrument                                respondents       respondent        responses         response          hours
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NITT-MFP Fellow Interview.........................................              66                 1               66                1               66
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by March 31, 2016 to the SAMHSA 
Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of 
comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing 
of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are encouraged 
to submit their comments to OMB via email to: 
[email protected]. Although commenters are encouraged to send 
their comments via email, commenters may also fax their comments to: 
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management 
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2016-04419 Filed 2-29-16; 8:45 am]
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10644 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 40 / Tuesday, March 1, 2016 / Notices chapter 35). To request a copy of these and the other on Cohorts III, IV, and V. improve substance abuse prevention documents, call the SAMHSA Reports Collectively, these evaluations provide systems and enhance the quality of Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. an important opportunity to inform the prevention programs, primarily through prevention field on current practices the implementation of the SPF process. Project: Strategic Prevention and their association with community- The goal of this initiative is to provide Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF and state-level outcomes. states, jurisdictions, tribal entities, and SIG) Program, Cohorts IV and V—NEW Data are collected at the grantee, the communities within them with the The Substance Abuse and Mental community, and participant levels. The tools necessary to develop an effective Health Services Administration’s collection of community outcomes data prevention system with attention to the (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse is the focus of the current request. The processes, directions, goals, Prevention (CSAP) requests OMB primary cross-site evaluation objective expectations, and accountabilities approval to collect community is to determine the impact of SPF SIG necessary for functionality. SAMHSA/ outcomes data for the cross-site on building prevention capacity and CSAP needs to collect information over evaluation of the Strategic Prevention infrastructure, and preventing the onset the course of the remaining grant period Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF and reducing the progression of to monitor the progress of the SPF SIG SIG) program, Cohorts IV and V. CSAP substance abuse, as measured by the initiative. CSAP will use the findings has previously funded two cross-site SAMHSA National Outcome Measures from the analysis of the community evaluations of the Strategic Prevention (NOMs). outcomes data in the cross-site Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF The SPF SIG grant program is a major evaluation to assess the impact of SPF SIG), one focused on Cohorts I and II investment by the federal government to activities on community-level outcomes. ANNUALIZED DATA COLLECTION BURDEN Number of Responses per Total number Burden hours Total burden Instrument respondents respondent of responses per response hours Community Outcomes Module .......................................... 34 1 34 4 136 Written comments and DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND President Obama’s NITT Initiative: recommendations concerning the HUMAN SERVICES Increasing access to mental health/ proposed information collection should behavioral health services. The purpose be sent by March 31, 2016 to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health of the NITT–MFP programs is to SAMHSA Desk Officer at the Office of Services Administration improve behavioral health care Information and Regulatory Affairs, outcomes for underserved racially and Agency Information Collection ethnically diverse populations by Office of Management and Budget Activities: Submission for OMB (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of increasing the number of culturally Review; Comment Request competent master’s level behavioral comments, and to avoid potential delays Periodically, the Substance Abuse and health professionals and addiction in OMB’s receipt and processing of mail Mental Health Services Administration counselors serving children, sent through the U.S. Postal Service, (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of adolescents, and populations in commenters are encouraged to submit transition to adulthood (ages 16–25) in their comments to OMB via email to: information collection requests under OMB review, in compliance with the an effort to increase access to, and OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. quality of, behavioral health care for Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Although commenters are encouraged to these age groups. The NITT–MFP— chapter 35). To request a copy of these send their comments via email, Youth program funded five grantees to documents, call the SAMHSA Reports commenters may also fax their Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. each support up to 48 master’s level comments to: 202–395–7285. fellows per year committed to Commenters may also mail them to: Project: Now Is the Time (NITT)— addressing the behavioral health needs Office of Management and Budget, Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) of at risk children, adolescents, and Office of Information and Regulatory Evaluation—New transition-age youth (ages 16–25). The Affairs, New Executive Office Building, SAMHSA is conducting a national NITT–MFP—Addiction Counselors Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503. evaluation of the Now is the Time program funded two grantees to each (NITT) initiative, which includes support up to 30 master’s level fellows Summer King, separate programs—the Minority per year in their final year of addiction Statistician. Fellowship Program—Youth (MFP–Y), counseling university programs, with a [FR Doc. 2016–04420 Filed 2–29–16; 8:45 am] the Minority Fellowship Program— focus on providing culturally sensitive BILLING CODE 4162–20–P Addiction Counselors (MFP–AC), addiction counseling to underserved Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness youth in the 16–25 age group. and Resilience in Education)—State The NITT–MFP evaluation is Educational Agency, and Healthy designed to assess the level of success asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Transitions. These programs are united of the grantees in meeting the programs’ by their focus on capacity building, goals and identify the factors that system change, and workforce contribute to differences among grantees development. in levels of success. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 40 / Tuesday, March 1, 2016 / Notices 10645 collected is necessary to (a) assess the interview is timed to collect fellows’ understanding of and ability to provide effectiveness of the grantees’ program impressions of their fellowship culturally competent services; (4) recruitment strategies, (b) describe the experiences before too much time has whether they completed their services that the programs offer, and (c) passed, as well as their initial labor fellowship and the effects of the stipend assess whether NITT–MFP is meeting its market outcomes. The information on their education and career; (5) their goal of increasing the skilled workforce collected will be used to assess the current employment setting, and, if in by increasing the number of behavioral NITT–MFP program factors associated behavior health services, the health providers and addiction with employment and other post- characteristics of their client counselors providing services to fellowship outcomes. The interviewees population; (6) the role that their underserved children, adolescents, and will be asked to describe (1) their fellowship played in their job interests transition-age youth, particularly among program, how they learned about it, and and job search; and (7) their satisfaction racially/ethnically diverse populations. About 4 to 5 months after completion what led them to apply; (2) the effects with the fellowship program and of their fellowship, a subset of fellow of the program on their interest in assessment of its impact on their career alumni will be asked to participate in working with at risk children, and professional activities. A maximum the NITT–MFP Fellow Interview. These adolescents, and transition age youth of 66 fellow alumni are expected to telephone interviews will collect from racially and ethnically diverse complete the NITT–MFP Fellow detailed qualitative information on backgrounds (and for MFP–AC fellows, Interview per year; respondents will fellows’ experiences that are not in the area of addiction counseling); (3) complete the telephone interview one possible to collect in a survey. The whether the program improved their time. ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of Responses per Total number Hours per Total burden Instrument respondents respondent of responses response hours NITT–MFP Fellow Interview .............................................. 66 1 66 1 66 Written comments and DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND Insurance Program (NFIP). In addition, recommendations concerning the SECURITY the FIRM and FIS report, once effective, proposed information collection should will be used by insurance agents and be sent by March 31, 2016 to the Federal Emergency Management others to calculate appropriate flood SAMHSA Desk Officer at the Office of Agency insurance premium rates for new Information and Regulatory Affairs, buildings and the contents of those [Docket ID FEMA–2016–0002; Internal buildings. Office of Management and Budget Agency Docket No. FEMA–B–1558] (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of DATES: Comments are to be submitted comments, and to avoid potential delays Proposed Flood Hazard on or before May 31, 2016. in OMB’s receipt and processing of mail Determinations ADDRESSES: The Preliminary FIRM, and sent through the U.S. Postal Service, where applicable, the FIS report for AGENCY: Federal Emergency commenters are encouraged to submit each community are available for Management Agency, DHS. their comments to OMB via email to: inspection at both the online location ACTION: Notice. OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. and the respective Community Map Although commenters are encouraged to SUMMARY: Comments are requested on Repository address listed in the tables send their comments via email, proposed flood hazard determinations, below. Additionally, the current commenters may also fax their which may include additions or effective FIRM and FIS report for each comments to: 202–395–7285. modifications of any Base Flood community are accessible online Commenters may also mail them to: Elevation (BFE), base flood depth, through the FEMA Map Service Center Office of Management and Budget, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) at www.msc.fema.gov for comparison. Office of Information and Regulatory boundary or zone designation, or You may submit comments, identified Affairs, New Executive Office Building, regulatory floodway on the Flood by Docket No. FEMA–B–1558, to Luis Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503. Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), and Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering where applicable, in the supporting Management Branch, Federal Insurance Summer King, and Mitigation Administration, FEMA, Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports for Statistician. the communities listed in the table 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC [FR Doc. 2016–04419 Filed 2–29–16; 8:45 am] below. The purpose of this notice is to 20472, (202) 646–4064, or (email) BILLING CODE 4162–20–P seek general information and comment Luis.Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.gov. regarding the preliminary FIRM, and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis where applicable, the FIS report that the Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering Federal Emergency Management Agency Management Branch, Federal Insurance asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES (FEMA) has provided to the affected and Mitigation Administration, FEMA, communities. The FIRM and FIS report 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC are the basis of the floodplain 20472, (202) 646–4064, or (email) management measures that the Luis.Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.gov; or visit community is required either to adopt the FEMA Map Information eXchange or to show evidence of having in effect (FMIX) online at in order to qualify or remain qualified www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/fmx_ for participation in the National Flood main.html. VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:18 Feb 29, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\01MRN1.SGM 01MRN1


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