[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 23, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48568-48569]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-22897]


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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 Children's Bureau Child Welfare 
Implementation Centers and National Resource Centers.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Cross-Site Evaluation of the Child Welfare 
Implementation Centers (IC) and National Resource Centers (NRC) is 
sponsored by the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and 
Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and 
involves the conduct of a five-year, cross-site evaluation that 
examines the effectiveness of the ICs' and NRCs' activities and service 
provision and the relation of their training and technical assistance 
activities to organizational and systems change in State and Tribal 
child welfare systems. Additionally, the evaluation will examine the 
degree to which networking, collaboration, information sharing, 
adherence to common principles, and common messaging occurs across all 
members of the Children's Bureau Training and Technical Assistance (T/
TA) Network, which is designed to improve child welfare systems and to 
support States and Tribes in achieving sustainable, systemic change 
that results in greater safety, permanency, and well-being for 
children, youth, and families. The Children's Bureau desires to assess 
the quality and effectiveness of the technical assistance it supports, 
and several of these programs and projects are required to be 
evaluated, including those funded under Section 105 of The Child Abuse 
Prevention and Treatment Act, as amended [42 U.S.C. 5106] and Parts B 
and E of Title IV of the Social Security Act. Beginning in fiscal year 
(FY) 2010, the T/TA Network will comprise a group of 30 T/TA providers

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funded entirely or partially by the Children's Bureau through grants, 
contracts, and interagency agreements.
    The cross-site evaluation uses a mixed-method, longitudinal 
approach to examine the ICs (funded in FY 2009) and a new cohort of 
NRCs (funded in FY 2010). Proposed data collection methods are a 
longitudinal telephone survey of State child welfare directors (or 
their designees) and Tribal Child Welfare/Social Service Directors (or 
their designees), a web-based survey of State and Tribal T/TA 
recipients, and aggregation of outputs from a web-based technical 
assistance tracking system (OneNet)that will be used by the five ICs 
and 11 NRCs. A web-based survey will be also administered to members of 
the T/TA Network. Data collected through these instruments will be used 
by the Children's Bureau to evaluate the effectiveness of technical 
assistance delivered to State, local, Tribal, and other publicly 
administered or publicly supported child welfare agencies and family 
and juvenile courts and the overall functioning of the T/TA Network.
    Respondents: Respondents to two of the survey instruments will be 
State and Tribal governments. Respondents to the third survey 
instrument will be private institutions, including universities, not-
for-profit organizations, and private companies. Private institutions, 
including universities and not-for-profit organizations will be 
respondents to the forms in the OneNet tracking system.

                                             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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Agency Results Survey...........................              74            1               1              74
Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA)                     600            1               0.25          150
 Activity Survey................................
Web-Based Network Survey........................              30            1               0.25            7.50
OneNet Form: Implementation Project (IP)                       5            5.40            0.50           13.50
 Description....................................
OneNet Form: IP Technical Assistance (TA)                      5          280.80            0.33          463.32
 Activity.......................................
OneNet Form: Implementation Center (IC) General                5            4               0.33            6.60
 TA Event.......................................
OneNet Form: IP Monthly Report..................               5           62.40            0.17           53.04
OneNet Form: National Resource Centers (NRC) TA               11           45               0.13           64.35
 Intake Form....................................
OneNet Form: NRC TA Work Plan...................              11           45               0.20           99
OneNet Form: NRC TA Close-Out...................              11           45               0.08           39.60
OneNet Form: NRC TA Activity....................              11          528               0.20        1,161.60
OneNet Form: NRC General TA Event...............              11           36               0.25           99
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,231.51.
    In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(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 
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 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: September 18, 2009.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-22897 Filed 9-22-09; 8:45 am]
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