Federal Register: June 23, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 119)
DOCID: fr23jn09-54 FR Doc E9-14624
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Children and Families Administration
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr23jn09-54
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
Title: CrossSite Evaluation of the Children's Bureau Grantee.
Cluster: Supporting EvidenceBased Home Visiting Programs to Prevent Child Maltreatment (EBHV).
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing this
crosssite evaluation data collection activity to identify successful
strategies for adopting, implementing, and sustaining highquality home
visitation programs to prevent child maltreatment. An evaluation study will address four domains: (1) Systems change to develop
infrastructure, (2) fidelity to home visiting models, (3) costs, and
(4) family and child outcomes (via a review of grantee analysis
reports). A process study will focus on the broader grant initiative to
understand how programs plan and develop the infrastructure needed to
support home visitation services and how programs ensure service quality.
Information will be collected through biennial site visits, semi
annual progress reports, and monthly entries into a webbased data
system. Site visits will include interviews with key grantee staff and
stakeholders involved in the execution of the grant and in the efforts
to make system changes. Progress report crosssite evaluation data will
capture the costs of home visiting and provide additional information
on systems change. Webbased data entry will include EBHV program and
participant characteristics along with systems change updates on goals and operations every six months. Additionally, cross
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site data will be collected via questionnaires on the home visit relationship and a systems partnership survey.
Respondents: EBHV grantee and key staff (i.e., evaluators, home
visitors and supervisors), partners, and home visiting participants.
Annual Burden Estimates
Annual number Number of Average Estimated
Instrument of responses per burden hour annual burden
respondents respondents per response hours
EBHV grantee and key staffpartner interview 249 2 1.6 797 guide..........................................
EBHV grantee progress report evaluation data.... 17 2 8.00 272
EBHV grantee webbased data entry system........ 17 12 9.50 1,938
Participant home visiting relationship 2,000 2 0.25 1,000 questionnaire..................................
Home Visitor home visiting relationship 2,000 2 0.25 1,000 questionnaire..................................
EBHV granteepartner systems partnership survey. 142 2 0.33 94
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 5,101.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described above. Copies of the proposed collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. Email address: OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified by the title of the information collection.
The Department specifically requests comments 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) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be 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.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted within 60 days of this publication.
Dated: June 17, 2009.
Seth F. Chamberlain,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E914624 Filed 62209; 8:45 am]
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SUMMARY:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
DOCUMENT BODY 2:
Title: CrossSite Evaluation of the Children's Bureau Grantee.
Cluster: Supporting EvidenceBased Home Visiting Programs to Prevent Child Maltreatment (EBHV).
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing this
crosssite evaluation data collection activity to identify successful
strategies for adopting, implementing, and sustaining highquality home
visitation programs to prevent child maltreatment. An evaluation study will address four domains: (1) Systems change to develop
infrastructure, (2) fidelity to home visiting models, (3) costs, and
(4) family and child outcomes (via a review of grantee analysis
reports). A process study will focus on the broader grant initiative to
understand how programs plan and develop the infrastructure needed to
support home visitation services and how programs ensure service quality.
Information will be collected through biennial site visits, semi
annual progress reports, and monthly entries into a webbased data
system. Site visits will include interviews with key grantee staff and
stakeholders involved in the execution of the grant and in the efforts
to make system changes. Progress report crosssite evaluation data will
capture the costs of home visiting and provide additional information
on systems change. Webbased data entry will include EBHV program and
participant characteristics along with systems change updates on goals and operations every six months. Additionally, cross
[[Page 29702]]
site data will be collected via questionnaires on the home visit relationship and a systems partnership survey.
Respondents: EBHV grantee and key staff (i.e., evaluators, home
visitors and supervisors), partners, and home visiting participants.
Annual Burden Estimates
Annual number Number of Average Estimated
Instrument of responses per burden hour annual burden
respondents respondents per response hours
EBHV grantee and key staffpartner interview 249 2 1.6 797 guide..........................................
EBHV grantee progress report evaluation data.... 17 2 8.00 272
EBHV grantee webbased data entry system........ 17 12 9.50 1,938
Participant home visiting relationship 2,000 2 0.25 1,000 questionnaire..................................
Home Visitor home visiting relationship 2,000 2 0.25 1,000 questionnaire..................................
EBHV granteepartner systems partnership survey. 142 2 0.33 94
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 5,101.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described above. Copies of the proposed collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. Email address: OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified by the title of the information collection.
The Department specifically requests comments 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) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be 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.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted within 60 days of this publication.
Dated: June 17, 2009.
Seth F. Chamberlain,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E914624 Filed 62209; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 418401M