[Federal Register: June 29, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 124)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Evaluation of the Improving Child Welfare Outcome Through
Systems of Care Grant Program.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The 1994 Amendments to the Social Security Act (SSA)
authorize the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to review
State child and family service programs to ensure conformance with the
requirements in titles IV-B and IV-E of the SSA. Under the Final Rule,
which took effective March 25, 2000, States are assessed for
substantial conformity with certain Federal requirements for child-
welfare services. The Child and Family Service Reviews (CFSR),
administered by the Children's Bureau, are designed to ensure
conformity with Federal child-welfare requirements and, ultimately, to
help States improve child-welfare services and outcomes, specifically
safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for child-welfare involved
children and their families. States determined not to have achieved
substantial conformity in any of the areas assessed are required to
develop and implement program improvement plans (PIP) addressing the
areas of nonconformity.
The Systems of Care grant cluster, from which these data are
proposed to be collected, is designed to encourage public child-welfare
agencies to address the issues identified in their state's CFSR.
Although Systems of Care has shown promise in working with various at-
risk and family populations, it has not been applied to a child-welfare
target population. The data collected from these demonstration sites
will allow the Children's Bureau to test whether this approach can help
States reach the goals stated in their program improvement plans and
explore how child welfare can benefit from being part of a system of
care. Data will be collected via interviews, forms completed by project
staff, surveys, focus groups and case file reviews. Data also will be
collected to determine the extent to which the Technical Assistance
(TA) provided, brokered or contracted by the TA and Evaluation Center
is meeting the needs of the grantees, and how.
Respondents
Systems of Care Project Directors;
Members of the Systems of Care collaborative (may include
representatives from mental health, juvenile justice, education,
health, among others);
Child-welfare agency supervisors and caseworkers;
Partner agency caseworkers; and
Families who have been involved with the child-welfare
system.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Average burden
Number of Number of responses per hours per Total burden
Instrument respondents respondent response hours (hours)
(minutues)
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Stakeholder Survey................... 240 51 items................. .29 59
Child-Welfare Agency Survey.......... 1440 72 items................. .29 501
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Supervisor Interviews................ 140 5 questions.............. 5 58
Interview with family members........ 140 5 questions.............. 5 58
Stakeholder Interviews............... 140 5 questions.............. 5 58
Project Director Interviews.......... 30 21 questions \1\......... 4 42
Child-Welfare agency and Partner 700 6 questions.............. 6 420
agency focus groups.
Community Description Form........... 20 14 items................. 2 9
Organizational Structure Form........ 20 7 items.................. 4 9
Collaborative Membership Form....... 20 7 items.................. 2 5
Major Activities Form................ 20 7 items.................. 6 14
Policy Changes Form.................. 20 7........................ 6 14
Other Training and Technical 20 4 items.................. 5 7
Assistance Form.
Training and Technical Assistance 1080 37 items................. .56 373
Participant Feedback Forms.
Technical Assistance Follow-up Survey 518 15....................... .29 38
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Total Estimated Total Annual .............. ......................... .............. 1,665
Burden Hours:.
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\1\ (1 hour for entire interview).
Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant
Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance
Officer. All requests should be identified by the title of the
information collection. E-mail address: grjohnson@acf.hhs.gov.
OMB Comments: OMB is required to make a decision concerning the
collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication of
this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best
assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Attn: Desk
Officer for ACF, e-mail address: Katherine_T._Astrich@omb.eop.gov
Dated: June 23, 2005.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-12821 Filed 6-28-05; 8:45 am]
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