Agency information collection activities: Submission for OMB review; comment request,

[Federal Register: June 30, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 127)]

[Notices]

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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.

Survey of Organized Consumer Self-Help Entities--New--The self-help movement in the United States has mushroomed, and increasingly serves mental health consumers and family members as a complement to, or substitution for, traditional mental health services. The purposes of this project of SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services are to estimate the number of self-help entities nationwide and to describe their characteristics--structure, types of activities engaged in, approaches to well-being and recovery, resources, and linkages to other entities in the community, such as the mental health service delivery system. The survey will gather information from a sample of approximately 3,900 mental health self-help entities run by and for recipients of mental health services and/or their family members. Data will be

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collected from three types of self-help entities: mutual support groups; self-help organizations; and, consumer-operated businesses and services. Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) will be used to conduct interviews with in-scope entities. The total response burden estimate is shown below.

Average burden/ Instrument

Number of Responses/

response Total burden respondents respondent

(hours)

(hours)

Universe Development Contacts...................

2,736

1

.17

465 Screener........................................

3,933

1

.17

668 Questionnaire...................................

3,933

1

.42

1,652

Total..................................... .............. .............. ..............

2,785

Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: Clarissa Rodriques-Coelho, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: June 23, 2000. Richard Kopanda, Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

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