[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 4 (Monday, January 8, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 791-792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-14]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ 
Demonstration and Evaluation: Rhode Island 15-Month Survey Amendment.
    OMB No. 0970-0276.
    Description: The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ 
Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to learn what works in 
this area to date and is explicitly designed to build on past research 
by rigorously testing a wide variety of approaches to promote 
employment and improve family functioning and child well-being. The HtE 
project is designed to help Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 
(TANF) recipients, former TANF recipients, or low-income parents who 
are hard-to-employ. The project is sponsored by the Office of Planning, 
Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and 
Families (ACF), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
(HHS), and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
    The evaluation involves an experimental, random assignment design 
in four sites, testing a diverse set of strategies to promote 
employment for low-income parents who face serious obstacles to 
employment. The four include: (1) Intensive care management to 
facilitate the use of evidence-based treatment for major depression 
among parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island; (2) job readiness 
training, worksite placements, job coaching, job development and other 
training opportunities for recent parolees in New York City; (3) pre-
employment services and transitional employment for long-term TANF 
participants in Philadelphia; and (4) home- and center-based care, 
enhanced with self-sufficiency services, for low-income families who 
have young children or are expecting in Kansas and Missouri.
    Materials for follow-up surveys for each of these sites were 
previously submitted to OMB and were approved. The purpose of this 
submission is to add physiological measures to the follow-up effort to 
the Rhode Island study.
    Respondents: The respondents to this component of the Rhode Island 
follow-up survey will be low-income parents and their children from the 
Rhode Island site currently participating in the HtE Project. As 
described in the prior OMB submission, these parents are Medicaid 
recipients between the ages of 18 and 45 receiving Medicaid through the 
managed care provider United Behavioral Health (UBH) in Rhode Island 
who meet study criteria with regard to their risk for depression. 
Children are the biological, adopted, and step-children of these 
parents, between the ages of 1 and 18 years of age.

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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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RI 15-month, parent physiological component             400                  8     5 minutes or           266.66
                                                                                        .08 hrs
RI 15-month young child physiological                   160                  8     5 minutes or           106.66
 component.................................                                             .08 hrs
RI 15-month, youth physiological component.             242                  8     5 minutes or           161.33
                                                                                        .08 hrs
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    Estimates Total Annual Burden Hours: 534.65
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, 
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 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: January 3, 2007.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-14 Filed 1-5-07; 8:45 am]
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