[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 246 (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73026-73027]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-6143]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being-Second 
Cohort (NSCAW II).
    OMB No.: 0970-0202.
    Description: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 
intends to collect data on a new sample of children and families for 
the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). The 
NSCAW was authorized under Section 427 of the Personal Responsibility 
and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act of 1996. The original survey 
began in November 1999 with a national sample of 5,501 children, ages 
0-14, who had been the subject of investigation by Child Protective 
Services during the baseline data collection period, which extended 
from November 1999 through April 2000. Direct assessments and 
interviews were conducted with the children themselves, their primary 
caregivers, their caseworkers, and, for school-aged children, their 
teachers; agency directors also were interviewed at baseline. Follow-up 
data collections were conducted 12 months, 18 months, and 36 months 
post-baseline, and a fifth data collection is currently under way.
    The NSCAW is the only source of nationally representative, 
firsthand information about the functioning and well-being, service 
needs, and service utilization of children and families who come to the 
attention of the child welfare system. Information is collected about 
children's cognitive, social, emotional, behavioral, and adaptive 
functioning, as well as family and community factors that are likely to 
influence their functioning. Family service needs and service 
utilization also are addressed in the data collection.
    The current data collection plan calls for selecting a new cohort 
of 5,700

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children and families and repeating the data collection procedures used 
in the original study. Selection of a new cohort will allow the 
comparison of characteristics of children who are entering the child 
welfare system today with those who entered prior to the implementation 
of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and prior to the advent of the 
Child and Family Services Review process. The data collection will 
follow the same format as that used in previous rounds of data 
collection, and will employ, with only modest revisions, the same 
instruments that have been used in previous rounds. Currently, HHS 
intends to collect baseline data and one follow-up 18 months later, 
with future follow-up rounds contingent on funding availability. Data 
from NSCAW are made available to the research community though 
licensing arrangements from the National Data Archive on Child Abuse 
and Neglect at Cornell University.
    Respondents: 5,700 children and their associated permanent or 
foster caregivers, caseworkers, and teachers; in addition, an 
administrator will be interviewed in each location from which children 
are sampled.

                                             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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Child Interview.................................           5,700               1            1.2            6,840
Permanent Caregiver Interview...................           3,800               1            2.0            7,600
Foster Caregiver Interview......................           1,990               1            1.5            2,985
Caseworker Interview............................           5,700               1            1.0            5,700
Teacher Questionnaire...........................           3,000               1             .75           2,250
Agency Questionnaire............................              97               1            1.0               97
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:........  ..............  ..............  ..............          25,472
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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 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: 202-395-6974, 
Attn: Desk Officer for ACF.

    Dated: December 17, 2007.
Brendan Kelly,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-6143 Filed 12-21-07; 8:45 am]
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