81 FR 40331 - 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 119 (June 21, 2016)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 119 (June 21, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-14626 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 21, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 40331-40332] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-14626] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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)-Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education) Evaluation--New SAMHSA is conducting a national evaluation of the Now is the Time (NITT) initiative, which includes separate programs--NITT Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education)--State Educational Agency (SEA), Healthy Transitions (HT), and two Minority Fellowship Programs (Youth and Addiction Counselors). These programs are united by their focus on capacity building, system change, and workforce development. NITT-Project AWARE, which is the focus of this data collection, represents a response to the third and fourth components of President Obama's NITT Initiative: making schools safer and focusing on access to mental health services. The goal of NITT-Project AWARE is to develop a comprehensive, coordinated, and integrated program for advancing wellness and resilience in educational settings for school-aged youth. SAMHSA awarded NITT-Project AWARE grants to 20 SEAs. Each SEA proposed partnerships between at least three high-need Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) to develop a coordinated and integrated plan of services and strategies to address the Project NITT-Project AWARE-SEA goals and objectives. Project AWARE grantees will plan and implement activities designed to increase the capacity of SEAs in three areas: (1) Increase mental health awareness among school-aged (K-12) youth; (2) train those who work with school-aged children to identify and respond to mental health issues in children and young adults; and (3) connect children, youth, and families with mental health services. The intention is to encourage cross-system collaboration and use evidence-based strategies to address mental health needs. The Project AWARE evaluation will examine the process and outcomes of activities by SEA grantees and their LEA and school partners. It will evaluate the capacity of SEAs to effectively involve family and youth, provide a culturally and linguistically competent and family- centered mental health service array, and implement a process for identifying need and delivering services that is informed by data and coordinated across child-serving agencies. Evaluation questions have been developed to understand grantee context, planning, implementation, outputs, and outcomes across each of the NITT priority areas. Data collection efforts that will support the evaluation are described below. AWARE Planning and Implementation Activities Inventory (AWARE Activities Inventory), to capture information about all activities supported by Project AWARE resources during the grant period. The inventory will be reviewed and updated on an annual basis at the SEA level with the grant project director, at the LEA level with the grant program coordinators, and at the school level with coordinators in each participating school. The questionnaires will guide review and input of additional information as needed for all activities captured in the AWARE Activities Inventory and conducted under Project AWARE. Each questionnaire will be conducted annually to review and update the AWARE Activities Inventory with 20 SEA-level respondents, 62 LEA-level respondents, and 432 school-level respondents. SEA Collaborative Partner Survey (SEA-CPS), to collect information about collaborative processes and partnerships at the state level to examine the networks involved in successful information sharing and collaborations across child-serving agencies and the families and youth they serve. SAMHSA estimates that there will be 24 collaborative partner respondents at each SEA grantee who will complete the annual SEA-CPS. Local Educational Agency Collaborative Partner Survey (LEA-CPS), to collect information about collaborative processes and partnerships at the local level to examine the networks involved in successful information sharing and collaborations across child-serving agencies and the families and youth they serve. The survey will be administered twice during the grant period, with 15 respondents in each of the 62 LEAs. [[Page 40332]] Collaborative Partner Interview Guide, to collect qualitative information about collaborative processes and partner roles. Approximately 160 core staff (8 SEA-level collaborative partners in each SEA grantee) are expected to participate in annual in-person and telephone interviews. School Information Systems Data Abstraction Protocol, to capture information from existing school information systems about student socio-demographics, school climate, and school safety. The data abstraction protocol will detail the procedure through which the national evaluation team will abstract data from each LEA or school information system. These data will be requested annually to cover school-level measures from the 2014-2015 through 2018-2019 school years. School-level information will be collected at the school level for all sample schools (N = 432), but the number of respondents is calculated based on whether the school information systems are consistent across SEAs and/or LEAs, or whether they vary from school to school. Based on preliminary discussions with the grantees, SAMHSA estimates that five SEA grantees will be able to provide data for all sample schools in the SEA (N = 5 SEA respondents), the data will be provided from LEAs in ten of the SEA grantees (N = 30 LEA respondents), and the remaining five SEA grantees will have school information systems and surveys that differ at the school level (N = 90 school respondents). Therefore 125 respondents will provide the secondary data that covers the 432 sample schools. Teacher Mental Health Literacy Survey, to assess the mental health literacy and associated knowledge and skills of teachers in selected schools participating in Project AWARE activities. This survey will be administered twice to a random sample of teachers in selected schools in partner LEAs, stratified by school type and size. An average sample size of approximately 24 teachers will be selected from each of the 432 schools selected to participate in the school-level coordinator questionnaire data collection. Existing Teacher and Student Survey Data Abstraction Protocols, to compile information from existing surveys to examine school climate and safety. The data abstraction protocol will be customized for each SEA based on the specific data collected by each state. Data from existing teacher and student surveys in selected schools (N = 432) participating in the national evaluation will be provided to the national evaluation on an annual basis. The number of respondents is calculated based on whether the existing student and teacher surveys are consistent across SEAs and/or LEAs, or whether they vary from school to school. Based on preliminary discussions with the grantees, SAMHSA estimates that 125 respondents will provide the secondary student and teacher survey data that covers the 432 sample schools. Student Focus Groups Protocol, to collect qualitative information about student perceptions of school climate; ability to identify signs of mental, behavioral, or emotional health issues; and student knowledge of school- and community-level service access. The evaluation team will conduct these focus groups during site visits conducted in 2016 and 2019. The guided discussion protocol will focus on participants' general knowledge of available resources, programs to support AWARE activities, and overall perceptions of school climate and safety. The focus groups will be conducted with approximately 8-10 students in each of four schools from one LEA associated with each SEA grantee, for a total of no more than 800 students participating in focus groups at each of the two site visits. Each focus group will last approximately one and a half hours. Annualized Burden Hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Responses per Total number Hours per Total burden Instrument respondents respondent of responses response hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEA leadership questionnaire.... 20 1 20 1 20 LEA coordinator questionnaire... 62 1 62 1 62 School coordinator questionnaire 432 1 432 1 432 SEA-Collaborative Partner Survey 480 1 480 0.5 240 LEA-Collaborative Partner Survey 930 1 930 0.5 465 Collaborative partner interviews 160 1 160 1 160 Teacher mental health literacy 10,368 1 10,368 0.5 5,184 survey......................... Student focus groups............ 800 1 800 1.5 1,200 School information systems data 125 1 125 1.5 188 abstraction.................... Student survey data abstraction. 125 1 125 1.5 188 Teacher school climate and 125 1 125 1.5 188 school safety survey........... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total....................... \a\ 13,377 .............. 13,627 .............. 8,327 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * This is an unduplicated count of total respondents. Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed information collection should be sent by July 21, 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. 2016-14626 Filed 6-20-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4162-20-P
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the functions that are required for DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND collaboration and use evidence-based
institutional compliance with IRB HUMAN SERVICES strategies to address mental health
review set forth in the HHS regulations needs.
at 45 CFR 46. Participating sites are Substance Abuse and Mental Health The Project AWARE evaluation will
responsible for meeting other regulatory Services Administration examine the process and outcomes of
obligations, such as obtaining informed activities by SEA grantees and their LEA
Agency Information Collection and school partners. It will evaluate the
consent, overseeing the implementation
Activities: Submission for OMB capacity of SEAs to effectively involve
of the approved protocol, and reporting Review; Comment Request family and youth, provide a culturally
unanticipated problems and study
and linguistically competent and
progress to the sIRB. Participating sites Periodically, the Substance Abuse and
family-centered mental health service
must communicate relevant information Mental Health Services Administration
array, and implement a process for
necessary for the sIRB to consider local (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of
identifying need and delivering services
context issues and state/local regulatory information collection requests under
that is informed by data and
requirements during its deliberations. OMB review, in compliance with the
coordinated across child-serving
Participating sites are expected to rely Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
agencies. Evaluation questions have
on the sIRB to satisfy the regulatory Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
been developed to understand grantee
requirements relevant to the ethical documents, call the SAMHSA Reports
context, planning, implementation,
review. Although IRB ethical review at Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. outputs, and outcomes across each of
a participating site would be counter to Project: Now Is The Time (NITT)– the NITT priority areas. Data collection
the intent and goal of this policy, the Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness efforts that will support the evaluation
policy does not prohibit any and Resilience in Education) are described below.
participating site from duplicating the Evaluation—New AWARE Planning and
sIRB. However, if this approach is taken, Implementation Activities Inventory
SAMHSA is conducting a national (AWARE Activities Inventory), to
NIH funds may not be used to pay for evaluation of the Now is the Time
the cost of the duplicate review. capture information about all activities
(NITT) initiative, which includes supported by Project AWARE resources
Exceptions separate programs—NITT Project during the grant period. The inventory
AWARE (Advancing Wellness and will be reviewed and updated on an
Exceptions to this policy will be made Resilience in Education)—State annual basis at the SEA level with the
where review by the proposed sIRB Educational Agency (SEA), Healthy grant project director, at the LEA level
would be prohibited by a federal, tribal, Transitions (HT), and two Minority with the grant program coordinators,
or state law, regulation, or policy. Fellowship Programs (Youth and and at the school level with
Requests for exceptions that are not Addiction Counselors). These programs coordinators in each participating
based on a legal, regulatory, or policy are united by their focus on capacity school. The questionnaires will guide
requirement will be considered if there building, system change, and workforce review and input of additional
is a compelling justification for the development. information as needed for all activities
exception. The NIH will determine NITT-Project AWARE, which is the captured in the AWARE Activities
whether to grant an exception following focus of this data collection, represents Inventory and conducted under Project
a response to the third and fourth AWARE. Each questionnaire will be
an assessment of the need.
components of President Obama’s NITT conducted annually to review and
Effective Date Initiative: making schools safer and update the AWARE Activities Inventory
focusing on access to mental health with 20 SEA-level respondents, 62 LEA-
This policy applies to all competing services. The goal of NITT-Project level respondents, and 432 school-level
grant applications (new, renewal, AWARE is to develop a comprehensive, respondents.
revision, or resubmission) with receipt coordinated, and integrated program for SEA Collaborative Partner Survey
dates on or after May 25, 2017. Ongoing, advancing wellness and resilience in (SEA–CPS), to collect information about
non-competing awards will not be educational settings for school-aged collaborative processes and partnerships
expected to comply with this policy youth. at the state level to examine the
until the grantee submits a competing SAMHSA awarded NITT-Project networks involved in successful
renewal application. For contracts, the AWARE grants to 20 SEAs. Each SEA information sharing and collaborations
policy applies to all solicitations issued proposed partnerships between at least across child-serving agencies and the
on or after May 25, 2017. For the three high-need Local Educational families and youth they serve. SAMHSA
intramural program, the policy applies Agencies (LEAs) to develop a estimates that there will be 24
to intramural multi-site studies coordinated and integrated plan of collaborative partner respondents at
submitted for initial review after May services and strategies to address the each SEA grantee who will complete the
25, 2017. Project NITT-Project AWARE–SEA goals annual SEA–CPS.
and objectives. Project AWARE grantees Local Educational Agency
Dated: June 14, 2016. will plan and implement activities Collaborative Partner Survey (LEA–
Lawrence Tabak, designed to increase the capacity of CPS), to collect information about
SEAs in three areas: (1) Increase mental collaborative processes and partnerships
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(K–12) youth; (2) train those who work networks involved in successful
with school-aged children to identify information sharing and collaborations
and respond to mental health issues in across child-serving agencies and the
children and young adults; and (3) families and youth they serve. The
connect children, youth, and families survey will be administered twice
with mental health services. The during the grant period, with 15
intention is to encourage cross-system respondents in each of the 62 LEAs.
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Collaborative Partner Interview Guide, SEA grantees (N = 30 LEA respondents), number of respondents is calculated
to collect qualitative information about and the remaining five SEA grantees based on whether the existing student
collaborative processes and partner will have school information systems and teacher surveys are consistent
roles. Approximately 160 core staff (8 and surveys that differ at the school across SEAs and/or LEAs, or whether
SEA-level collaborative partners in each level (N = 90 school respondents). they vary from school to school. Based
SEA grantee) are expected to participate Therefore 125 respondents will provide on preliminary discussions with the
in annual in-person and telephone the secondary data that covers the 432 grantees, SAMHSA estimates that 125
interviews. sample schools. respondents will provide the secondary
School Information Systems Data Teacher Mental Health Literacy student and teacher survey data that
Abstraction Protocol, to capture Survey, to assess the mental health covers the 432 sample schools.
information from existing school literacy and associated knowledge and
information systems about student skills of teachers in selected schools Student Focus Groups Protocol, to
socio-demographics, school climate, and participating in Project AWARE collect qualitative information about
school safety. The data abstraction activities. This survey will be student perceptions of school climate;
protocol will detail the procedure administered twice to a random sample ability to identify signs of mental,
through which the national evaluation of teachers in selected schools in behavioral, or emotional health issues;
team will abstract data from each LEA partner LEAs, stratified by school type and student knowledge of school- and
or school information system. These and size. An average sample size of community-level service access. The
data will be requested annually to cover approximately 24 teachers will be evaluation team will conduct these
school-level measures from the 2014– selected from each of the 432 schools focus groups during site visits
2015 through 2018–2019 school years. selected to participate in the school- conducted in 2016 and 2019. The
School-level information will be level coordinator questionnaire data guided discussion protocol will focus
collected at the school level for all collection. on participants’ general knowledge of
sample schools (N = 432), but the Existing Teacher and Student Survey available resources, programs to support
number of respondents is calculated Data Abstraction Protocols, to compile AWARE activities, and overall
based on whether the school information from existing surveys to perceptions of school climate and
information systems are consistent examine school climate and safety. The safety. The focus groups will be
across SEAs and/or LEAs, or whether data abstraction protocol will be conducted with approximately 8–10
they vary from school to school. Based customized for each SEA based on the students in each of four schools from
on preliminary discussions with the specific data collected by each state. one LEA associated with each SEA
grantees, SAMHSA estimates that five Data from existing teacher and student grantee, for a total of no more than 800
SEA grantees will be able to provide surveys in selected schools (N = 432) students participating in focus groups at
data for all sample schools in the SEA participating in the national evaluation each of the two site visits. Each focus
(N = 5 SEA respondents), the data will will be provided to the national group will last approximately one and a
be provided from LEAs in ten of the evaluation on an annual basis. The half hours.
ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Responses
Number of Total number Hours per Total burden
Instrument per
respondents of responses response hours
respondent
SEA leadership questionnaire ............................................. 20 1 20 1 20
LEA coordinator questionnaire ............................................ 62 1 62 1 62
School coordinator questionnaire ........................................ 432 1 432 1 432
SEA-Collaborative Partner Survey ...................................... 480 1 480 0.5 240
LEA-Collaborative Partner Survey ....................................... 930 1 930 0.5 465
Collaborative partner interviews .......................................... 160 1 160 1 160
Teacher mental health literacy survey ................................. 10,368 1 10,368 0.5 5,184
Student focus groups ........................................................... 800 1 800 1.5 1,200
School information systems data abstraction ...................... 125 1 125 1.5 188
Student survey data abstraction .......................................... 125 1 125 1.5 188
Teacher school climate and school safety survey .............. 125 1 125 1.5 188
Total .............................................................................. a 13,377 ........................ 13,627 ........................ 8,327
* This is an unduplicated count of total respondents.
Written comments and their comments to OMB via email to: Affairs, New Executive Office Building,
recommendations concerning the OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.
proposed information collection should Although commenters are encouraged to
Summer King,
be sent by July 21, 2016 to the SAMHSA send their comments via email,
asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Desk Officer at the Office of Information commenters may also fax their Statistician.
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of comments to: 202–395–7285. [FR Doc. 2016–14626 Filed 6–20–16; 8:45 am]
Management and Budget (OMB). To Commenters may also mail them to: BILLING CODE 4162–20–P
ensure timely receipt of comments, and Office of Management and Budget,
to avoid potential delays in OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory
receipt and processing of mail sent
through the U.S. Postal Service,
commenters are encouraged to submit
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