[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 117 (Tuesday, June 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 33761]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2996]



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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: Kansas and Missouri 36-Month Data 
Collection.
    OMB NO. New Collection.
    Description: The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ 
Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to learn what services 
improve the employment prospects of low-income persons who face serious 
obstacles to steady work. The project is sponsored by the Office of 
Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for 
Children and Families (ACF) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), both within the U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS), and the U.S. Department of Labor 
(DOL).
    The HtE project is a multi-year, multi-site evaluation that employs 
an experimental longitudinal research design to test four strategies 
aimed at promoting employment among hard-to-employ populations. The 
four include: (1) Intensive care management and job services program 
for Rhode Island Medicaid recipients with serious depression; (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 
participants receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); 
and (4) two-generational Early Head Start (EHS) services providing 
enhanced self-sufficiency services for parents, parent skills training, 
and high-quality child care for children in low-income families in 
Kansas and Missouri.
    The purpose of this document is to request public comment on the 
proposed 36-month parent survey and direct child assessments in Kansas 
and Missouri. The research team plans to collect parent-reported 
surveys assessing parents' employment, education and economic outcomes, 
child outcomes, as well as aspects of parental psychological well-
being, parenting, family functioning and routines, and child care use. 
This data collection effort will also include direct assessments of 
young children's cognitive, socioemotional and behavioral development.
    The follow-up survey and direct child assessments at the 36-month 
follow-up in Kansas and Missouri will be used for the following 
purposes: To study the extent to which EHS services with enhanced self-
sufficiency services (enhanced EHS services) affect employment, 
earnings, income, and welfare dependence of low-income parents with 
young children; to study the impacts of enhanced EHS services on child 
well-being and school readiness; to examine the impacts of enhanced EHS 
services on key aspects of parental psychological well-being, 
parenting, family functioning and routines, and child care that might 
account for the effects of the intervention on young children; to 
collect data on a wider range of outcome measures than is available 
through welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Social Security, and 
Unemployment Insurance records.
    The 36-month data collection efforts draws heavily from the 15-
month survey and direct child assessments conducted in this site. 
Materials for the survey and direct child assessments for the 15-month 
data collection effort were previously submitted to OMB and were 
approved (OMB Control No. 0970-0276).
    Respondents: The target population of the HtE project in Kansas and 
Missouri is low-income pregnant women and families with infants and 
toddlers.
    The respondents to the 36-month data collection effort will be all 
participants in the program and the control groups of the HtE project 
in Kansas and Missouri. Parents will be responding to a survey. 
Children between the ages of 2 and 7 years old at the 36-month follow-
up will be asked to participants in direct child assessments aimed at 
understanding their emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development 
and school readiness.
    The annual burden estimates are detailed below, and the substantive 
content of each component will be detailed in the supporting statement 
attached to this 30-day notice.

                                             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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KS/MO 36-month parent survey........                610                  1                .75             457.50
KS/MO 36-month direct child                         610                  1                .50             305.00
 assessments........................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 762.50.
    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 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) 395-3674, Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children 
and Families.

    Dated: June 13, 2007.
Brendan Kelly
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-2996 Filed 6-18-07; 8:45 am]
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