[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 23, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29701-29702]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-14624]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

    Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of the Children's Bureau Grantee.
    Cluster: Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs to 
Prevent Child Maltreatment (EBHV).
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing this 
cross-site evaluation data collection activity to identify successful 
strategies for adopting, implementing, and sustaining high-quality home 
visitation programs to prevent child maltreatment. An evaluation study 
will address four domains: (1) Systems change to develop 
infrastructure, (2) fidelity to home visiting models, (3) costs, and 
(4) family and child outcomes (via a review of grantee analysis 
reports). A process study will focus on the broader grant initiative to 
understand how programs plan and develop the infrastructure needed to 
support home visitation services and how programs ensure service 
quality.
    Information will be collected through biennial site visits, semi-
annual progress reports, and monthly entries into a web-based data 
system. Site visits will include interviews with key grantee staff and 
stakeholders involved in the execution of the grant and in the efforts 
to make system changes. Progress report cross-site evaluation data will 
capture the costs of home visiting and provide additional information 
on systems change. Web-based data entry will include EBHV program and 
participant characteristics along with systems change updates on goals 
and operations every six months. Additionally, cross-

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site data will be collected via questionnaires on the home visit 
relationship and a systems partnership survey.
    Respondents: EBHV grantee and key staff (i.e., evaluators, home 
visitors and supervisors), partners, and home visiting participants.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                  Annual  number     Number of        Average        Estimated
                   Instrument                           of         responses per    burden hour    annual burden
                                                    respondents     respondents    per response        hours
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EBHV grantee and key staff-partner interview                 249               2             1.6             797
 guide..........................................
EBHV grantee progress report evaluation data....              17               2            8.00             272
EBHV grantee web-based data entry system........              17              12            9.50           1,938
Participant home visiting relationship                     2,000               2            0.25           1,000
 questionnaire..................................
Home Visitor home visiting relationship                    2,000               2            0.25           1,000
 questionnaire..................................
EBHV grantee-partner systems partnership survey.             142               2            0.33              94
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    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 5,101.
    In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and 
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the 
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed 
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded 
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of 
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., 
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE 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: June 17, 2009.
Seth F. Chamberlain,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-14624 Filed 6-22-09; 8:45 am]
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