[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 15, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2498-2499]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 08-95]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of the Infant Adoption Awareness 
Training Program for Projects Initially Funded in Fiscal Year 2006.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), 
Children's Bureau (CB), will conduct the Cross-Site Evaluation of the 
Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program (IAATP). Title XII, Subtitle 
A, of the Children's Health Act of 2000 (CHA) authorizes the Department 
of Health and Human Services to make Infant Adoption Awareness Training 
grants available to national, regional, and local adoption 
organizations for the purposes of developing and implementing programs 
that train the staff of public and non-profit private health service 
organizations to provide adoption information and referrals to pregnant 
women on an equal basis with all other courses of action included in 
non-directive counseling of pregnant women. Participants in the 
training include individuals who provide pregnancy or adoption 
information and those who will provide such services after receiving 
the training, with Title X (relating to voluntary family planning 
projects), Section 330 (relating to community health centers, migrant 
health centers, and centers serving homeless individuals and residents 
of public housing), and CHA-funded school-based health centers, 
receiving priority to receive the training. A total of six 
organizations were awarded IAATP funding in 2006.
    Section 1201(a)(2)(A) of the IAATP legislation requires grantees to 
develop and deliver trainings that are consistent with the Best 
Practice Guidelines for Infant Adoption Awareness Training. The IAATP 
guidelines address training goals, basic skills, curriculum and 
training structure. A complete description of the guidelines is 
available at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/programs_fund/discretionary/iaatp.htm. In addition, grantees are required to conduct 
local evaluation of program outcomes and participate in the national 
evaluation of the extent to which IAATP training objectives are met. 
The Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program: Trainee Survey is the 
primary data collection instrument for the national cross-site 
evaluation. Respondents will complete the survey prior to receiving 
training and approximately 90 days after the training to assess the 
extent to which trainees demonstrate sustained gains in their knowledge 
about adoption, and to determine the impact of the training on their 
subsequent work with pregnant women.
    Data collected through the proposed survey will enable ACF to 
objectively assess the knowledge and skills gained, retained, and 
applied by trainees as a result of their participation in the Infant 
Adoption Awareness Training Program, and will answer the following 
research questions:
    1. Do health care workers who participate in the IAATP training:
     Demonstrate enhanced knowledge, attitudes, skills, and 
behaviors with respect to adoption counseling following completion of 
the program?
     Provide adoption information to pregnant women on an equal 
basis with other pregnancy planning options?
     Demonstrate enhanced awareness of community adoption-
related resources and refer expectant mothers to them as needed?
    2. Are trainees more confident about discussing all three pregnancy 
planning options (parenting, abortion, and adoption) in a non-directive 
counseling style than they were prior to participating in the training?
    Cross-site evaluation data will be collected on an annual basis 
throughout the five-year funding period. Pre-test and follow-up 
versions of the survey are expected to require approximately 10 to 15 
minutes to complete. Estimated response time for the follow-up survey 
includes time for respondents to access the web-based survey, complete 
the survey online, and electronically submit the survey. Respondents 
will not need to implement a recordkeeping system or compile source 
data in order to complete the survey. Where possible, fields in the 
follow-up version of the survey will be pre-filled with static data 
from the respondent's pre-test (e.g., demographics, agency type) in 
order to further expedite completion of the survey and minimize 
respondent burden.
    Respondents: Infant Adoption Awareness Program Trainees.

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                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of
                   Instrument                        Number of     responses per  Average  hours   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent     per  response       hours
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IAATP: Trainee Survey Pre-Test Administration...           1,200               1             .15             180
IAATP: Trainee Survey Follow-Up Administration..           1,200               1             .10             120
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 300
    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and 
Families is publishing the following summary of a proposed collection 
for public comment. Copies of the proposed collection of information 
can be requested from L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, 
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail address: 
[email protected]. All requests should be identified by the 
title of the information collection.
    The Department specifically requests comments on: (a) Whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the 
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection 
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology. 
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted 
within 60 days of this publication.

    Dated: January 8, 2008.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 08-95 Filed 1-14-08; 8:45 am]
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