[Federal Register: March 4, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 42)]
[Notices]
[Page 10646-10647]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
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 SSA. Under the final Rule,
which took effect 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 PIP 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 (A) 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
Number of Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
Instrument respondents respondent per response hours
(minutes)
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Stakeholder Survey.................. 240 51 items.................. .29 59
Child-Welfare Agency Survey......... 1440 72 items.................. .29 501
Supervisor Interviews............... 140 5 questions............... 5 58
Interviews 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 items................... 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 518 15........................ .29 38
Survey.
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Total estimated total annual .............. .......................... .............. 1,665
burden hours.
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\1\ One hour for entire interview.
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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: grjohnson@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: February 28, 2005.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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