Supporting_Statement_Part_A_9-9 _cleanrevision

SUPPORTING STATEMENT
Part A. Justification:
1. Necessity of Information Collection.
On September 13, 1994, President Clinton signed into law the Violent Crime Control and
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-322). Title I of the "crime bill," the Public Safety
Partnership and Community Policing Act of 1994 (the Act), authorizes the Attorney General to
make grants to states, units of local government, Indian tribal governments, other public and private
entities, and multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia thereof to increase police presence, to expand
and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and members of the
community, to address crime and disorder problems, and to otherwise enhance public safety.
The COPS Office has provided a grant to the Partnership at Drugfree.org (“the Partnership”)
to complete a needs assessment of law enforcement, prevention and treatment organizations, as well
as educators and parents, designed to inform the development of an empirically guided
collaborative substance abuse prevention manual and program for trainers. To achieve this aim the
Partnership will create a web-based survey to reach a convenience sample of law enforcement
organizations and smaller subsets of prevention and treatment agencies, and educators..
Information gathered in this needs assessment research is necessary to inform the development of
the new community partnership training manual content and procedures. The elements of the
program must accurately reflect the actual needs of the community stakeholders involved – law
enforcement, prevention, treatment and education professionals – in order to be effective.
2. Needs and Uses
The information needs of this survey are as follows:
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Basic demographics of the participant and the community/law enforcement agency;

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Attitudes, beliefs and perceptions about the ability of law enforcement and community
agencies to collaboratively deliver prevention programs to educate parents and reduce
adolescent substance use;

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Analysis of the relationship and linkages with other community agencies including strength
of the relationships, barriers to successful and sustainable linkages, and recommendations
for improvement;

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Questions specific to adoption (e.g. feasibility, confidence, motivation, and needs) for both
the individual and their agency.

This information will be used to develop the training manual to help educate law
enforcement and other community stakeholders on the value of collaborative community
partnerships in prevention programs and how to form, nurture and sustain these relationships in
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order to deliver the substance abuse prevention programming. The manual will be an adjunct to a
half day training program for law enforcement, prevention and education specialists on how to
deliver the Partnership’s prevention programs most effectively. The needs assessment is qualitative
pilot research using a mixed data collection approach to help inform manual and training content
only. It is not designed to be a representative sample of law enforcement, prevention and education
specialists. No statistics will be published nor will references be made that any findings can be
generalized outside this convenience sample.
3. Efforts to Minimize Burden
The burden on the public will be minimal:
The total time to complete the survey will be approximately 15 minutes. Up to 300
individuals will be recruited to participate in the survey, which will be weighted to include at least
150 law enforcement officers. The remainder of the participants will consist of treatment and
prevention providers, and educators.
This is a one-time survey. No respondent will take the survey more than once.
4. Efforts to Identify Duplication
There is no duplicative effort. The survey does not duplicate a current information
collection instrument.
5. Methods to Minimize Burden on Small Business
There is no significant impact on small business.
6. Consequences of Less Frequent Collection
This is a one-time survey so there is no way for less frequent collection. Fewer respondents
would not allow sufficient information to yield reliable information to help with the development of
the manual.
7. Special Circumstances Influencing Collection
There are no special circumstances that would influence the collection of information.
8. Reasons for Inconsistencies with 5 CFR 1320.6
There are no inconsistencies with this regulation. The COPS Office will display the valid
OMB Control Number, expiration date, and PRA Notice on the survey. The COPS Office also
sought public comment through posting 60-day and 30-day Federal Register notices. The COPS
Office did not receive any public comments on this information collection.
9. Payment or Gift to Respondents

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No funds will be used as payment or for gifts to respondents.
10. Assurance of Confidentiality
No assurance of confidentiality has been made to respondents.
11. Justification for Sensitive Questions
There are no questions of a sensitive nature. No information commonly considered as
private is included in the proposed requested information.
12. Estimate of Hour Burden
Maximum total participants: 300
Maximum interview length: 15 Minutes
Total Public Burden: 75 Hours
13. Estimate of Cost Burden
This collection will not generate any costs other than those associated with the respondents’
time. Therefore, the estimated burden cost is $0.
14. Estimated Annualized Cost to Federal Government
The annualized cost to the Federal government is $9,000.00, which is part of the total
contract awarded to the Partnership at Drugfree.org for the Needs Assessment Survey Instrument.
15. Reason for Change in Burden
No changes, proposed new collection.
16. Publication
The information collected will be used to create a training protocol which will ultimately be
published in a manual available to law enforcement agencies nationally. The Partnership will not
publish statistics (descriptive or inferential) in journals specific to the results of the survey (e.g. 60%
of law enforcement officials want more treatment for substance users). The information that will be
published in the manual may include a section on recommendations of how agencies/organizations
can work together to prevent substance abuse in the community. It will also not contain specific
survey data identifiable to individual respondents.
17. Request not to Display OMB Control Number
The COPS Office will display the OMB approval number and expiration date on the upper
right hand corner of the collection instrument.
18. Exceptions to Certification Statement
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The COPS Office does not request an exception to the certification of this information
collection.

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