Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 242 (Friday, December 17, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70717-70718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32755]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources And Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Public Law 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995. To request more information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft instruments, call 
the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is 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

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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: Social Support for Homeless Mothers: Implications 
for Best Practices and Program Design--New

    The Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network (HCHCN) of the 
National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Inc., through a 
cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health 
Resources and Services Administration, proposes to conduct a study on 
the social support available to homeless mothers, most of whom are 
parenting children alone. The study will be of adult homeless women and 
will be conducted by convening focus groups and administering a 
questionnaire to focus group members. The study is designed to look at 
clients' life events, histories of violence, medical and physical 
illness, social support, children's needs, and services use. The 
results will help to define best practices as they relate to social 
support processes and enable HCH programs to offer the appropriate mix 
of supports necessary to help mothers transition into permanent 
housing. The participants will be recruited from ten sites of the 
national Health Care for the Homeless program.
    The estimated response burden is as follows:

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                                                     Number of     Responses per     Hours per      Total hour
               Type of  respondent                  respondents     respondent       response         burden
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Patient.........................................             100               1               3             300
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    Total.......................................             100  ..............  ..............             300
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    Send comments to Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 14-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: December 2, 1999.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 99-32755 Filed 12-16-99; 8:45 am]
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