[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 5, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8149-8150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-02405]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Extension of a Currently Approved Information Collection; Comment 
Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of Children's Bureau's Child Welfare 
Technical Assistance Implementation Centers and National Child Welfare 
Resource Centers.
    OMB No.: 0970-0377.
    Background and Brief Description: The Cross-Site Evaluation of the 
Child Welfare Implementation Centers (ICs) and National Resource 
Centers (NRCs) 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 multi-year cross-site evaluation 
that examines the service provision of the ICs' and NRCs' 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 examines the degree to which 
networking, collaboration, information sharing, adherence to common 
principles, and common messaging occurs across 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]. The Children's Bureau 
T/TA Network is currently comprised of providers 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. Data collection methods that already have been employed are a 
longitudinal telephone survey of State and Tribal child welfare 
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 continue to be used by 
the ICs and NRCs. A web-based survey also has been administered to 
members of the T/TA Network to assess their communication, 
coordination, and how they function as part of the Network. Data 
collected through these instruments are being used by the Children's 
Bureau to evaluate the technical assistance delivered to State, local, 
Tribal, and other publicly administered or publicly supported child 
welfare agencies and family and juvenile courts. Extension of the 
follow-up data collection instruments beyond the June 30, 2013 
expiration date is necessary so that the Children's Bureau can assess 
the extent to which its T/TA providers achieve their key objectives and 
determine the outcomes of the T/TA from the perspective of States and 
Tribes, incorporating service utilization data from OneNet into these 
analyses.
    Respondents: Respondents to two of the survey instruments will be 
State and Tribal governments. Respondents to the third survey 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 annual
                                                 respondents      respondent        response       burden hours
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Agency Results Survey........................              74              1               1.0            74.00
T/TA Activity Survey.........................             160              3               0.25          120.00
Web-Based Network Survey.....................              15              1               0.25            3.75
OneNet Form: General T/TA Event..............              17             11.8             0.25           50.00
OneNet Form: T/TA Request....................              13             12.31            0.40           64.00
OneNet Form: T/TA Assessment and Work Plan...              13              6.2             0.28           22.568
OneNet Form: T/TA Activity...................              12            160               0.30          576.00
OneNet Form: Implementation Project                         5              1.7             0.40            3.4
 Application.................................
OneNet Form: Implementation Project                         5              4.6             0.28            6.44
 Assessment and Work Plan....................
OneNet Form: Implementation Project T/TA                    5            600               0.30          900
 Activity....................................
OneNet Form: Implementation Project Monthly                 5             36               0.17           30.60
 Report......................................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:.....  ..............  ................  ..............         1850.76
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    Overall, the estimated burden hours have decreased by 284 hours 
from the original submission (the estimated total annual burden hours 
were 2135.12). This difference is explained in part due to plans for 
fewer Network member organizations to complete subsequent surveys. 
Additional data fields have been added to four of the OneNet forms at 
the request of respondents, and a few questions on survey instruments 
have been removed or revised. These minor changes did not increase the 
total annual burden hours.
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained 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. All requests should be identified by the title of the 
information collection. Email address: [email protected].
    OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning the 
collection 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

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comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection 
should be sent directly to the following: Office of Management and 
Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax: 202-395-7245, Email: [email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for 
Children and Families.

 Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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