[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 205 (Monday, October 26, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55051-55052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-25259]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; 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 evidence-

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based models, (3) costs of home visiting programs, 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 they ensure service quality.
    Information will be collected through biennial site visits, web-
based data entry, a data quality progress table, a relationship 
questionnaire completed by participants and home visitors, and a 
grantee-partner network survey. In particular, 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. 
Grantees will complete systems web-based data entry on goals and 
operations every six months while agencies implementing home visiting 
programs associated with the grantee will utilize the fidelity/cost 
web-based data entry to provide EBHV program, provider, and participant 
characteristics along with yearly data on costs of home visiting 
programs.
    Respondents: EBHV grantee and key staff (evaluators, home visitors 
and supervisors), partners, implementing agencies, home visiting 
participants, and home visitors.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                  Annual  number     Number of        Average        Estimated
                   Instrument                           of         responses per    burden hour    annual burden
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response        hours
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EBHV grantee and key staff-partner interview                 249               2            1.60             797
 guide..........................................
EBHV grantee systems web-based data entry.......              17               2            1.00              34
EBHV agency fidelity/cost web-based data entry..              50              12            9.00           5,400
EBHV grantee data quality progress table........              17               4            4.25             289
Participant-home visitor relationship                      4,716               2            0.25           2,358
 questionnaire..................................
Home visitor-participant relationship                      4,716               2            0.25           2,358
 questionnaire..................................
EBHV grantee-partner network survey.............             142               2            0.42             119
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    Estimated Total Burden Hours................  ..............  ..............  ..............          11,355
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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 Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, 
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE 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 the Administration for Children and 
Families.

    Dated: October 14, 2009.
Seth F. Chamberlain,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-25259 Filed 10-23-09; 8:45 am]
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