[Federal Register: June 5, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 107)]
[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: 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).
Program-Specific Performance Measure
The CBAE program developed 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 developed the measure. CBAE
grantees will be required to ask twelve questions of the youth served
in a pre- and post-survey, as well as a representative sample of the
youth served in a follow-up survey.
The questions were carefully constructed by experienced evaluators
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: Youth Participants.
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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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Community-Based Abstinence Education 1,000,000 3 0.17 510,000
Performance Program--Specific Performance
Measure...................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 510,000
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: June 2, 2009.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-13147 Filed 6-4-09; 8:45 am]
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