[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 184 (Friday, September 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55907-55908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-19012]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ
Demonstration and Evaluation: Rhode Island 15-Month Survey Amendment.
OMB No.: 0970-0276.
Description: The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ
Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) is the most ambitious,
comprehensive effort to learn what works in this area to date and is
explicitly designed to build on previous and on going research by
rigorously testing a wide variety of approaches to promote employment
and improve family functioning and child well-being. The HtE project
will ``conduct a multi-site evaluation that studies the implementation
issues, program design, net impact and benefit-costs of selected
programs'' \1\ designed to help Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF) recipients, former TANF recipients, or low-income parents who
are hard-to-employ. The project is sponsored by the Office of Planning,
Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), and the U.S. Department of labor (DOL).
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\1\ From the Department of Health and Human Services RFP No.:
233-01-0012.
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The evaluation involves an experimental, random assignment design
in four sites, testing a diverse set of strategies to promote
employment for low-income parents who face serious obstacles to
employment. The four include: (1) Intensive care management to
facilitate the use of evidence-base treatment for major depression
among parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island; (2) job-readiness
training, worksite placements, job coaching, job development and other
training opportunities for recent parolees in New York City; (3) pre-
employment services and transitional employment for long-term TANF
participants in Philadelphia; and (4) home- and center-based care,
enhanced with self-sufficiency services, for low-income families who
have young children or are expecting in Kansas and Missouri.
Materials for follow-up surveys for each of these sites were
previously submitted to OMB and were approved on April 29, 2005. The
purpose of this submission is to introduce an addition to the OMB-
approved follow-up survey effort in the Rhode Island site that will be
used to collect follow-up data on children's development.
The additional content we propose for the follow-up survey effort
will be used to address two questions: (1) What are the effects of a
telephonic care management intervention for parents' depression on
parents' parenting and on children's health, behavior, and development;
and (2) To what extent can intervention effects on children's
development be attributed to changes in maternal depressive
symptomatology that result from the intervention?
Two follow-up surveys are included in this submission:
1. A 15-month follow-up parent survey that will supplement other
information already collected from parents by addressing questions
about parenting and children's well-being.
2. A 15-month follow-up direct child assessment for up to two
selected children of these parents. For younger children, this
assessment will consist of cognitive and behavioral assessments
conducted directly with the children; older children will be
administered a survey, in addition to direct assessments.
Respondents: The respondents to these follow-up surveys will be
low-income parents and their children from the Rhode Island site
currently participating in the HtE Project. As described in the prior
OMB submission, these parents are Medicaid recipients between the ages
of 18 and 45 receiving Medicaid through the managed care provider
United Behavioral Health (UBH) in Rhode Island who meet study criteria
with regard to their risk for depression. Children are the biological,
adopted, and step-children of these parents, between the ages of 1 and
18 years of age.
Prior to this follow-up survey, all parents will have completed a
more detailed baseline survey, which is required to establish baseline
measures of depression and related conditions, in addition to providing
critical demographic data. The baseline survey was previously approved
by OMB.
The annual burden estimates are detailed below, and the substantive
content of each survey will be detailed in the supporting statement
attached to the forthcoming 30-day notice.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Instrument Number of responses per Average burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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RI 15-month, parent survey............ 560 1 45 minutes or .75 hrs... 420
RI 15-month, direct child assessment.. 980 1 45 minutes or .75 hrs... 735
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,155
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
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail
address: [email protected]. 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: September 16, 2005.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-19012 Filed 9-22-05; 8:45 am]
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