[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37411-37412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-12821]


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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.: New Collection.
    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 the SSA. Under the Final Rule, 
which took effective 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 CFSR. 
Although Systems of Care has shown promise in working with various at-
risk and family populations, it has not been applied to a child-welfare 
target population. 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 program improvement plans 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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                                                                                  Average burden
                                          Number of     Number of responses per      hours per     Total burden
              Instrument                 respondents           respondent            response      hours (hours)
                                                                                    (minutues)
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Stakeholder Survey...................             240  51 items.................             .29              59
Child-Welfare Agency Survey..........            1440  72 items.................             .29             501

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Supervisor Interviews................             140  5 questions..............               5              58
Interview with family members........             140  5 questions..............               5              58
Stakeholder Interviews...............             140  5 questions..............               5              58
Project Director Interviews..........              30  21 questions \1\.........               4              42
Child-Welfare agency and Partner                  700  6 questions..............               6             420
 agency focus groups.
Community Description Form...........              20  14 items.................               2               9
Organizational Structure Form........              20  7 items..................               4               9
 Collaborative Membership Form.......              20  7 items..................               2               5
Major Activities Form................              20  7 items..................               6              14
Policy Changes Form..................              20  7........................               6              14
Other Training and Technical                       20  4 items..................               5               7
 Assistance Form.
Training and Technical Assistance                1080  37 items.................             .56             373
 Participant Feedback Forms.
Technical Assistance Follow-up Survey             518  15.......................             .29              38
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    Total Estimated Total Annual       ..............  .........................  ..............          1,665
     Burden Hours:.
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\1\ (1 hour for entire interview).

    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: [email protected].
    OMB Comments: 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, Attn: Desk 
Officer for ACF, e-mail address: [email protected]

    Dated: June 23, 2005.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-12821 Filed 6-28-05; 8:45 am]
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