[Federal Register: October 23, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 206)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Community-Based Abstinence Education Performance Progress
Report.
OMB No.: 0970-0272.
Description: The discretionary funding Community-Based Abstinence
Education Program (CBAE) is authorized by Title XI, Section 1110, of
the Social Security Act (using the definitions contained in Title V,
Section 510(b)(2) of the Social Security Act).
Performance Progress Report/Program Narrative
The CBAE Performance Progress Report/Program Narrative is a
semiannual report form through which grantees report performance
information used by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
to evaluate each grantee's compliance with Federal law and progress
toward achieving its goals. Performance information includes:
Description of major activities and accomplishments during the
reporting period;
Description of deviations or departures from the original project;
Description of significant findings and events;
Description of dissemination activities;
Description of other activities; and
Description of activities planned for the next reporting period,
including goals and objectives.
Program-Specific Performance Measure
The CBAE program is developing a program-specific performance
measure in response to the PART review (a process by which the Office
of Management and Budget analyzes and rates a Federal program's
procedures and strategies for evaluating its effectiveness), for which
the program received a rating of Adequate. In an effort to gather
program-specific data on rates of abstinence pre- and post-program
participation, ACF and the Office of Management and Budget determined
that a program-specific performance measure should be developed to
assess key outcomes among program participants. The CBAE office
convened a panel of abstinence education experts to gather input on the
measure, and, based on the input provided, the CBAE office is
developing the measure. CBAE grantees will be required to ask ten to
fifteen questions of the youth served in a pre- and post-survey, as
well as a representative sample of the youth served in a post-post-
survey.
The questions are being carefully constructed by an experienced
evaluator to measure initiation and discontinuation of sexual
intercourse as well as two key predictors of initiation: Sexual values
and behavioral intentions.
The program office will collect and compile data to establish
baselines and ambitious targets for the program-specific performance
measure. The data will be aggregated and results will be shared with
the public as they become available.
Respondents: Performance Progress Report/Program Narrative--Non-
profit community-based organizations, faith-based organizations,
schools/school districts, universities/colleges, hospitals, public
health agencies, local governments, Tribal councils, small businesses/
for-profit entities, housing authorities, etc. Program-Specific
Performance Measure--Youth Participants.
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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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Community-Based Abstinence Education Program 60 2 50 6,000
Announcement Performance Progress Report/
Program Narrative..............................
Community-Based Abstinence Education Program-- 1,000,000 3 0.17 510,000
Program-Specific Performance Measure...........
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 516,000
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: ACF 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: October 20, 2008.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-25285 Filed 10-22-08; 8:45 am]
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