[Federal Register: August 15, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 159)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Evaluation of the Improving Child Welfare Outcome through
Systems of Care Grant Program.
OMB No.: 0970-0288.
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 CPSR. 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 (TA) 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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Number of Average
Instrument Affected public Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Stakeholder Survey............................. Individuals/Households................. 20 1 .5 10
Private Sector......................... 60 1 .5 30
State/Local/Tribal..................... 190 1 .5 95
Child-Welfare Agency Survey.................... State/Local/Tribal..................... 600 1 1 600
Supervisor Interviews.......................... State/Local/Tribal..................... 90 1 1 90
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Stakeholder Interviews......................... Individuals/Households................. 10 1 1 10
Private Sector......................... 30 1 1 30
State/Local/Tribal..................... 50 1 1 50
Project Director Interviews.................... State/Local/Tribal..................... 23 1 1 23
Focus Group with Family Members................ Individuals/Households................. 102 1 1.5 153
Parent Partner Interviews...................... State/Local/Tribal..................... 24 1 1 24
Child-Welfare Agency and Partner agency group Private Sector......................... 80 1 1.5 120
interviews. State/Local/ Tribal.................... 200 1 1.5 300
Community Description Form..................... State/Local/Tribal..................... 9 1 2.5 23
Organizational Structure Form for Case Study State/Local/Tribal..................... 3 1 2 6
Sites.
Organizational Structure Form for Non-Case State/Local/Tribal..................... 20 1 1 20
Study Sites.
Collaborative Membership Form.................. State/Local/Tribal..................... 23 1 1.5 35
Training and Technical Assistance Quality State/Local/Tribal..................... 23 1 1 23
Assurance Assessment.
Training and Technical......................... Individuals/Households................. 2 12 .25 6
State/Local/Tribal..................... 8 12 .25 24
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:....... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 1672
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Additional Information:
Copies of the proposed collection 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: ACE Reports Clearance Officer. All requests
should be identified by the title of the information collection. E-mail
address: 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, Fax: 202-395-6974,
Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.
Dated: August 7, 2008.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance, Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-18788 Filed 8-14-08; 8:45 am]
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