[Federal Register: August 21, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 161)]
[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
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ
Demonstration and Evaluation: Philadelphia 36-Month Data Collection.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ
Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to learn what services
improve the employment prospects of low-income persons who face serious
obstacles to steady work. The project is sponsored by the Office of
Planning, Research and
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Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children and Families
(ACF) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation (ASPE), both within the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
The HtE project is a multi-year, multi-site evaluation that employs
an experimental longitudinal research design to test four strategies
aimed at promoting employment among hard-to-employ populations. The
four include: (1) Intensive care management and job services program
for Rhode Island Medicaid recipients with serious depression; (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
participants receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF);
and (4) two-generational Early Head Start (EHS) services providing
enhanced self-sufficiency services for parents, parent skills training,
and high-quality child care for children in low-income families in
Kansas and Missouri.
The purpose of the current document is to request public comment on
the 36-month participant survey in Philadelphia. The research team
plans to collect participant-reported surveys assessing participants'
employment, education and economic outcomes, participation in
employment and training services, receipt of benefits and services such
as food stamps and mental health services, housing and household
information, health and health care coverage, child care, and child
outcomes.
The follow-up survey at the 36-month follow-up in Philadelphia will
be used for the following purposes: To study the extent to which pre-
employment services and transitional employment affect employment,
earnings, income, and welfare dependence of low-income TANF recipients;
to examine the impacts of these services on participants' health,
receipt of benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid, and child-care
subsidies, and participation in services such as substance abuse
treatment and mental health services; and to collect data on a wider
range of outcomes measures than is available through welfare, Medicaid,
Food Stamps, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance records.
The 36-month data collection effort draws heavily from the 15-month
survey conducted in this site. Materials for the 15-month data
collection effort were previously submitted to OMB and were approved
(OMB Control No. 0970-0276).
Respondents: TANF recipients without a high school diploma and/or
recipients who have received TANF for at least 12 months.
The fielded sample of the 36-month data collection effort will be
all 1,944 participants in the two program groups and the control group
of the HtE project in Philadelphia. The burden estimates below assume
an 80 percent response rate of the fielded sample.
The annual burden estimates are detailed below, and the substantive
content of each component will be detailed in the supporting statement
attached to this 30-day notice.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Instrument Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Philadelphia 36-month participant survey........ 1,555 1 .75 1,116
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,116.
Additional Information
Copies of the proposed collection of information 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. E-mail
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
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, Fax: 202-395-6974,
Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.
Dated: August 15, 2007.
Brendan Kelly,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-4064 Filed 8-20-07; 8:45 am]
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