[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 3, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20114-20115]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07741]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-13-13PQ]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or 
send comments to Ron Otten, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
    Comments are invited 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) ways to enhance 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. Written comments should be received 
within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    DELTA FOCUS Program Evaluation--New--National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a serious, preventable public 
health problem that affects millions of Americans and results in 
serious consequences for victims, families, and communities. IPV occurs 
between two people in a close relationship. The term ``intimate 
partner'' describes physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a 
current or former partner or spouse. IPV can impact health in many 
ways, including long-term health problems, emotional impacts, and links 
to negative health behaviors. IPV exists along a continuum from a 
single episode of violence to ongoing battering; many victims do not 
report IPV to police, friends, or family.
    Primary prevention means stopping IPV before it occurs. In 2002, 
authorized by the Family Violence Prevention Services Act (FVPSA), CDC 
developed the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership 
Through Alliances (DELTA) Program, with a focus on the primary 
prevention of IPV. Since that time, The DELTA Program has funded state 
domestic violence coalitions (SDVCs) to engage in statewide primary 
prevention efforts and to provide training, technical assistance, and 
financial support to local communities for local primary prevention 
efforts. DELTA FOCUS (Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and 
Leadership through Alliances, Focusing on Outcomes for Communities 
United with States) builds on that history by providing focused funding 
to states and communities for intensive implementation and evaluation 
of IPV primary prevention strategies that address the structural 
determinants of health at the societal and community levels of the 
social-ecological model (SEM).
    The purpose of the DELTA FOCUS program is to promote the prevention 
of IPV through the implementation and evaluation of strategies that 
create a foundation for the development of practice-based evidence. By 
emphasizing primary prevention, this program will support comprehensive 
and coordinated approaches to IPV prevention. Each SDVC is required to 
identify and fund one to two well-organized, broad-based, active local 
coalitions (referred to as coordinated community responses or CCRs) 
that are already engaging in, or are at capacity to engage in, IPV 
primary prevention strategies affecting the structural determinants of 
health at the societal and/or community levels of the SEM. SDVCs must 
facilitate and support local-level implementation and hire empowerment 
evaluators to support the evaluation of IPV prevention strategies by 
the CCRs. SDVCs must also implement and with their empowerment 
evaluators, evaluate state-level IPV prevention strategies.
    CDC seeks OMB approval to collect information electronically from 
awardees, their CCRs and their empowerment evaluators. Information will 
be collected using the DELTA FOCUS Program Evaluation Survey (referred 
to as DF Survey). The DF survey will collect information about SDVCs 
satisfaction with CDC efforts to support them; process, program and 
strategy implementation factors that affect their ability to meet the 
requirements of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA); prevention 
knowledge and use of the public health approach; and sustainability of 
prevention activities and successes.
    Information collected through the DF Survey will be used to guide 
program improvements by CDC in the national DELTA FOCUS program 
implementation and program improvements by SDVCs in implementation of 
the program within their state. Specifically the data collection will 
allow the federal government to assess: a) opportunities and barriers 
to implementing the DELTA FOCUS program at the state and local levels, 
b) benefits and challenges of focusing on prevention strategies at the 
societal and community levels, and c) what data informed program 
improvements are needed. Not collecting this data could result in 
inappropriate implementation at the national, state, and local levels. 
Thus, this data collection is an essential program evaluation activity.
    The DF Survey will be completed by 10 SDVC executive directors, 10 
SDVC project coordinators, 19 CCR project coordinators, and 10 SDVC 
empowerment evaluators and take a maximum of 1 hour to complete. We 
expect for each SDVC there will be four web-based surveys completed in 
the first year (2013) of awardee activity. CDC will analyze, interpret, 
translate, and disseminate the survey findings in years two and three 
of the information collection request. The total estimated annualized 
burden for the proposed 10 awardees is 44 hours. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time.

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                                                       Estimated Annualized Burden to Respondents
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                                                                                                     Number of       Average  burden
           Type of respondents                         Form name                  Number of        responses per      per  response    Total burden  (in
                                                                                 respondents         respondent         (in hours)           hours)
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State Domestic Violence Coalition          DELTA FOCUS Survey...............                 10                  1                  1                 10
 Executive Director.
State Domestic Violence Coalition Project  DELTA FOCUS Survey...............                 10                  1                  1                 10
 Coordinator.
Coordinated Community Response Project     DELTA FOCUS Survey...............                 19                  1                  1                 19
 Coordinator.
State Domestic Violence Coalition          DELTA FOCUS Survey...............                 10                  1                .50                  5
 Empowerment Evaluator.
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    Total................................  .................................  .................  .................  .................                 44
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    Dated: March 28, 2013.
Ron A. Otten,
Director, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Associate 
Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-07741 Filed 4-2-13; 8:45 am]
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