[Federal Register: February 13, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 29)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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 ongoing 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-based 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. 15-month follow-up youth survey will be administered to up to
two of the older focal children of these parents.
3. Additionally, a 15-month follow-up direct child assessment for
up to two younger children will be conducted. This assessment will
consist of cognitive and behavioral assessments conducted directly with
the children. These procedures are described in the OMB Supporting
Statement.
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
17 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.
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Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Instrument Number of responses per Average burden hours per Total burde
respondents respondent response hours
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RI 15-month, parent child add-on 400 1 45 minutes or .75 hrs.... 300
survey.
RI 15-month, youth survey............ 298 1 45 minutes or .75 hrs.... 223.5
RI 15-month, direct child assessment. 164 1 45 minutes or .75 hrs.... 123
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 646.5.
Additional Information
Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained by writing to The
Administration for Children and Families, Office of Information
Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF
Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
OMB Comment
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: Katherine_T._Astrich@omb.eop.gov.
Dated: February 7, 2006.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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