[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 21, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20850-20851]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-9038]


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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 (ACE), 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-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

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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 characteristic 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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                                                                     Number of    Average burden     Estimated
                   Instrument                      Annual Number   responses per     hour per      annual burden
                                                  of respondents    respondent       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.

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 1, 2009.
Seth F. Chamberlain,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.

    Editorial Note: This document was received in the Office of the 
Federal Register on Thursday, April 15, 2010.
[FR Doc. 2010-9038 Filed 4-20-10; 8:45 am]
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