[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 205 (Monday, October 26, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55051-55052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-25259]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of the Children's Bureau Grantee
Cluster: Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs to Prevent
Child Maltreatment (EBHV).
OMB No.: New collection.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing this
cross-site evaluation data collection activity to identify successful
strategies for adopting, implementing, and sustaining high-quality home
visitation programs to prevent child maltreatment. An evaluation study
will address four domains: (1) Systems change to develop
infrastructure, (2) fidelity to evidence-
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based models, (3) costs of home visiting programs, and (4) family and
child outcomes (via a review of grantee analysis reports). A process
study will focus on the broader grant initiative to understand how
programs plan and develop the infrastructure needed to support home
visitation services and how they ensure service quality.
Information will be collected through biennial site visits, web-
based data entry, a data quality progress table, a relationship
questionnaire completed by participants and home visitors, and a
grantee-partner network survey. In particular, site visits will include
interviews with key grantee staff and stakeholders involved in the
execution of the grant and in the efforts to make system changes.
Grantees will complete systems web-based data entry on goals and
operations every six months while agencies implementing home visiting
programs associated with the grantee will utilize the fidelity/cost
web-based data entry to provide EBHV program, provider, and participant
characteristics along with yearly data on costs of home visiting
programs.
Respondents: EBHV grantee and key staff (evaluators, home visitors
and supervisors), partners, implementing agencies, home visiting
participants, and home visitors.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Annual number Number of Average Estimated
Instrument of responses per burden hour annual burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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EBHV grantee and key staff-partner interview 249 2 1.60 797
guide..........................................
EBHV grantee systems web-based data entry....... 17 2 1.00 34
EBHV agency fidelity/cost web-based data entry.. 50 12 9.00 5,400
EBHV grantee data quality progress table........ 17 4 4.25 289
Participant-home visitor relationship 4,716 2 0.25 2,358
questionnaire..................................
Home visitor-participant relationship 4,716 2 0.25 2,358
questionnaire..................................
EBHV grantee-partner network survey............. 142 2 0.42 119
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Estimated Total Burden Hours................ .............. .............. .............. 11,355
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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 Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. All
requests should be identified by the title of the information
collection. E-mail address: [email protected].
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 14, 2009.
Seth F. Chamberlain,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-25259 Filed 10-23-09; 8:45 am]
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