[Federal Register: May 1, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 85)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Mentoring Children of Prisoners Service Delivery
Demonstration Project Data Collection.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Promoting Safe and Stable Families Amendments, as
reauthorized (2006), amended Title IV-B of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 629-629e) providing funding for a service delivery demonstration
project for the Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program. Grantees
shall identify children of prisoners not being served by the grant
program, provide families of identified children with a voucher for
mentoring services and a list of quality mentoring programs, and
monitor the delivery of mentoring services provided.
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The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), United States Department of Health and
Human Services, administers the MCP program.
The MCP program provides children of prisoners with caring adult
mentors, supporting one-to-one mentoring relationships. Research in
other populations has shown that such relationships can lead to
reductions in risk behaviors and improvements in academic, behavioral,
and psychological outcomes in children and youth. Although the MCP
program was developed based on research documenting the efficacy of
mentoring as a general intervention strategy, it is not yet known if
this particular intervention yields positive outcomes for the children
of prisoners population. Little is known about how mentoring
relationships work for these youth and how effective mentoring
relationships for children of prisoners differ from effective mentoring
relationships for other youth. In addition, little is known about
children of prisoners in general and thus a survey of MCP program youth
has the potential to provide important data about this relatively
unstudied population.
The evaluation and data collection proposed in this notice are to
fulfill the statutory requirement under Section 8, subsection h(l) of
the Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006, as amended, that
the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services evaluate
outcomes of the MCP service delivery demonstration project and report
to Congress on the findings. The information collected will also be
used for accountability monitoring, management improvement, and
research.
Data collection will ensure that grantees know that mentoring
relationships are meeting the established milestones and that mentoring
activities are faithful to characteristics established by research as
essential to success. Data collected will allow ACF to compare the MCP
service delivery demonstration project with the MCP grant program. Data
collected will also support grantees as they carry out ongoing
responsibilities and manage information for internal use.
Respondents: Public, faith-based and community organizations
applying to and implementing the MCP service delivery demonstration
project.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Child Application.............................. 4,200 1 .5 2,100
Program Application............................ 325 1 2 650
MentorPRO Basic:
Mentoring Practices and Relationship Data.. 250 120 .5 15,000
Baseline Youth Survey...................... 3,000 1 .5 1,500
Follow-up Youth Survey..................... 2,000 1 .5 1,000
Relationship Quality Survey................ 2,250 1 .5 1,125
Program Survey............................. 250 1 .5 125
Mentor Survey.............................. 2,000 1 .5 1,000
Payment Information........................ 1 52 2 104
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 22,604.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(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 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: April 23, 2008.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-9292 Filed 4-30-08; 8:45 am]
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