[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 92 (Thursday, May 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25897-25898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-12093]
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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 list 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 (301) 443-7978.
Assessment of the National Leadership Institute Program and
Services--New
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's (SAMHSA)
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) intends to conduct an
assessment of its National Leadership Institute (NLI). The goal
underlying the technical assistance and training opportunities provided
through the NLI is to strengthen the competitive position and power of
nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) which are essential
components of local substance abuse services for the uninsured and
under-insured.
The NLI gathers, adapts, and disseminates the best available
knowledge about business management for nonprofit agencies, including
competitive bidding, strategic development and business planning,
cultural competency, team building and change management, and
Management Information Systems. Participants in the NLI technical
assistance programs are self-identified and participate in either
short- or long-term technical assistance (TA). Short-term TA includes
two on-site TA visits, one training event, one group technical
assistance activity, and up to five resource packages. Long-term TA
includes up to four on-site TA visits, up to three training events, two
group TA activities, and up to 10 resource packages. Training efforts
are also conducted by the NLI, using curricula developed by and
administered by the NLI.
Both a process and an impact assessment will be conducted. The
process assessment will describe the needs faced by CBOs, the types of
training and technical assistance that CBOs receive through the NLI,
and CBO satisfaction with services. The impact assessment will focus on
specific changes made by CBOs in response to NLI recommendations, and
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improvements in self-rated organizational performance and several
organization status measures.
Analysis of this information will assist CSAT in documenting the
numbers and types of participants accessing these services, and
describing the extent to which participants improve in their knowledge,
skill, and ability to manage their organizations in this changing
business environment. This type of information is crucial to support
CSAT in complying with GPRA reporting requirements and will inform
future development of technical assistance activities.
The assessment design for technical assistance participants will be
a pre-post design that collects identical information at initiation of
NLI contact and again after 12 months. This time frame is necessary to
allow CBOs the opportunity to address NLI technical assistance
recommendations and to plan and implement their changes. In addition,
the assessment will collect satisfaction measures after each technical
assistance event, and both a comprehensive satisfaction summary and an
activity summary at 6 and 12 months after initial NLI contact. A formal
comparison group is not available, but comparisons of changes in key
organization status measures can be made with similar data on changes
collected from other CSAT KDA-funded grantees. These key status
indicators include organization revenues, revenue per client, revenue
sources, client flow, staff level, staff turnover, services provided,
and major growth/expansion or contraction. In addition, these same
indicators will be collected, in one interview, for several prior years
to establish a pattern of change within specific CBOs.
A feature of the data collected in this evaluation is the inclusion
of pre- and post-service perceptions of organizational functioning
across 14 business and financial management domains. This information
constitutes a self-assessment that is used in planning NLI services,
and comprises the baseline against which follow-up measures of
functioning will be assessed.
NLI anticipates receiving requests for assistance from 79 CBOs per
year over the next 3 years, for a total of 237 programs. This includes
up to 54 CBOs requiring long-term TA, and up to 25 CBOs requiring
short-term TA. Data collection burden will be borne primarily by
directors of the CBOs who will provide initial contact information (30
minutes), pre- and post-test versions of organizational self
assessments (60 minutes), satisfaction forms (5 minutes each for 2
types of questionnaire), and activity summaries (10 minutes). Moreover,
up to 10 focus groups will be held with staff representatives from 3 to
6 CBOs per focus group. Discussions will be held with staff
representatives from CBOs receiving NLI services. An estimated 54 staff
representatives will be contacted each year. Each focus group will have
approximately 18 attendees. Finally, an estimated 475 attendees at
training events per year will also receive a brief satisfaction
questionnaire. The chart below summarizes the total three-year and
annualized burden for this project.
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Estimated
Form number of Responses per Hours per Total hours
respondents respondent response
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Technical Assistance Recipients
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Initial Contact Form............................ 237 1 .25 59
Organization Self-Assessment.................... 237 2 .75 356
Technical Assistance Event Satisfaction......... 237 1 .08 19
Activity Summary................................ 237 2 .33 156
Comprehensive NLI Satisfaction.................. 237 1 .16 40
Focus Groups.................................... 180 1 180 180
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Training Participants
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Training Participant Information Form........... 1,425 2 .08 228
Training Participant 30 day follow-up........... 1,425 1 .08 114
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Total....................................... 1,842 .............. .............. 1152
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Annual average.............................. 614 .............. .............. 384
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:
Daniel Chenok, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503.
Dated: May 7, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 99-12093 Filed 5-12-99; 8:45 am]
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