[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 3, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54253-54254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-21325]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-13-13AGS]


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 404-639-7510 or 
send comments to LeRoy Richardson, 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

    Prevention of Child Maltreatment through Policy Change--NEW--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The prevalence and consequences of child maltreatment (CM) make it 
a public health concern that requires early and effective prevention. 
Public policies can be critical in shaping every level of the social 
ecology, including individuals, families, and communities, and thus 
have the potential to play a key role in the prevention of CM. In order 
to protect children and youth and build an evidence-base of effective 
prevention strategies, evaluation of public policies are needed, 
including those policies currently being implemented. Policies related 
to family income (e.g., Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) 
eligibility and inroads to related services) were identified by CDC 
through the Division of Violence Prevention's Public Health Leadership 
Initiative policy analysis as those that are in need of rigorous 
evaluation.
    CDC requests OMB approval for a period of two years in order to 
perform a data collection, which will provide data for a larger outcome 
evaluation that seeks to understand if county-administered policy 
strategies of the TANF program result in lower rates of CM and 
associated child welfare outcomes (e.g., time to adoption). The 
proposed data collection will include surveys and semi-structured 
interviews with state and county-level government employees and 
partners in Colorado to address three primary aims: (1) To understand 
how a state policy allowing counties to administer TANF programs with 
flexibility contributes to county-level adoption of integrated welfare 
and child welfare service models; (2) to develop and refine an 
Implementation Index, which will quantify the degree of integration 
between welfare and child welfare services; and (3) to inform the 
larger outcome evaluation, which examines whether TANF policies and 
program supports reduce rates of CM when they are delivered in an 
integrated welfare and child welfare service model.
    Understanding how service integration between TANF and child 
welfare affects CM may be very important to improving CDC's ability to 
devise and implement effective population-based prevention strategies.
    Approximately 188 Colorado state and county employees and partners 
form the sample population. Specifically, state- and county-level 
employees working in welfare and/or child welfare agencies will be 
invited to complete a brief survey and an hour-long semi-structured 
interview. This study population includes individuals employed in the 
following positions: County-Level Child Welfare Workers, State-Level 
Administrators, County Directors of Human Services, Child Welfare 
Services and Colorado Works Leadership/Manager, Child Welfare Services 
and Colorado Works Case Manager, Caseworker, Technician, and Other 
Client-Serving Staff. An additional 72 individuals employed by Allied 
Staff (e.g., Housing, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 
Medicaid, Child Care) and Partners of Child Welfare and Colorado Works 
will also be invited to complete an hour-long semi-structured 
interview. For the survey, 116 project participants will respond to the 
survey once, where each response requires 15 minutes: 116 (responses 
total) x 1 (responses per total project period) x 15/60 (hour per 
response) = 30 total survey burden hours. For the semi-structured 
interview, 188 project participants will respond to the interview once, 
where this response requires 188 total semi-structured interview burden 
hours. The total burden hours for this proposed data collection are 
218.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

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                                                                     Number of      Avg. burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)       (in hrs.)
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County Directors of Human       Survey of County              18               1           15/60               5
 Services.                       TANF and Child
                                 Welfare
                                 Respondents.
                                Interview of                  18               1               1              18
                                 County Director
                                 of Human
                                 Services.
State Level Administrators....  Survey of State                8               1           15/60               2
                                 Level
                                 Administrators.
                                Interview of                   8               1               1               8
                                 State Level
                                 Administrator/
                                 Field
                                 Administrator.
Child Welfare/Colorado Works    Survey of County              36               1           15/60               9
 Leadership/Manager.             TANF and Child
                                 Welfare
                                 Respondents.
                                Interview of                  36               1               1              36
                                 Child Welfare/
                                 Colorado Works
                                 Leadership/
                                 Manager.
Child Welfare Services and      Survey of County              54               1           15/60              14
 Colorado Works Case Manager,    TANF and Child
 Caseworker, Technician, and     Welfare
 Other Client-Serving Staff.     Respondents.
                                Interview of                  54               1               1              54
                                 Child Welfare
                                 and Colorado
                                 Works Case
                                 Manager,
                                 Caseworker,
                                 Technician and
                                 Other Client-
                                 Serving Staff.
Allied Staff (e.g., Housing,    Interview of                  36               1               1              36
 Supplemental Nutrition          Allied Staff
 Assistance Program, Medicaid,   (e.g., Housing,
 Child Care).                    Supplemental
                                 Nutrition
                                 Assistance
                                 Program,
                                 Medicaid, Child
                                 Care).
Partners of Child Welfare and   Interview of                  36               1               1              36
 Colorado Works.                 Partners.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             218
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LeRoy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-21325 Filed 8-30-13; 8:45 am]
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