[Federal Register: September 25, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 185)]
[Notices]
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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: 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-Employe
Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to learn what works in
this area to date and is explicitly designed to build on past research
by rigorously testing a wide variety of approaches to promote
employment and improve family functioning and child well-being. The HtE
project is 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).
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. The purpose of this
submission is to add physiological measures to the follow-up effort to
the Rhode Island study.
Respondents: The respondents to this component of the Rhode Island
follow-up survey 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.
The annual burden estimates are detailed below, and the substantive
content of each component 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 physiological 400 8 5 minutes or .08 hrs... 266.66
component.
RI 15-month young child physiological 160 8 5 minutes or .08 hrs... 106.66
component.
RI 15-month youth physiological 242 8 5 minutes or .08 hrs... 161.33
component.
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 534.65.
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: infocollection@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
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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 19, 2006.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-8110 Filed 9-22-06; 8:45 am]
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