[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 84 (Monday, May 2, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26237-26238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-10199]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

[Document Identifier: HHS-OS-0990-New-60D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Public Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health 
(OASH), Department of Health and Human Services, announces plans to 
submit a new Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR 
to OMB, OASH seeks comments from the public

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regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before July 1, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 
[email protected] or by calling (202) 690-6162.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information Collection Clearance 
staff, [email protected] or (202) 690-6162.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the document identifier HHS-OS-0990-New--
60D for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Evaluation of the Second 
Decade Project Community Planning Guide Abstract: The Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) is requesting approval from the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for an evaluation of the Second 
Decade Project Community Planning Guide.
    OASH has a long history of collaborating with communities to 
improve adolescent health outcomes. To further help communities build 
an environment that promotes adolescent health, OASH recently developed 
Promoting Health and Healthy Development in the Second Decade of Life: 
A Planning Guide for Communities (``the Guide''). The purpose of the 
Guide is to provide an easy to follow tool that community leaders can 
use to (1) establish a community coalition with broad membership, and 
(2) develop a community plan for improving adolescent health and well-
being that includes multi-impact strategies. To understand whether and 
how community leaders are able to use the Guide to achieve these two 
goals, OASH needs information about the Guide's utility and 
effectiveness. The evaluation of the Second Decade Project Community 
Planning Guide (``the evaluation'') is intended to support the goals of 
OASH's Second Decade Project of helping community leaders incorporate 
the needs of children, adolescents and young adults in community growth 
and development plans, and to improve outcomes of young adults and 
adolescents. Five communities will participate in the piloting and 
evaluation of the Guide. The evaluation will provide OASH with critical 
information regarding the components of the Guide that community 
leaders found most useful and effective in accomplishing their goals of 
improving adolescent health and wellbeing; the compilation and 
inclusiveness of the coalitions implementing the Guide; and the 
demographic and environmental context of these communities. While 
secondary data will be collected from sources such as the U.S. Census 
Bureau American Community Survey and Youth Risk Behavior and National 
Health Interview Surveys, these sources do not provide nuanced 
information needed by OASH to understand the contexts in which the 
Guide is most effective.
    Likely Respondents--Qualitative data will be collected through 
semi-structured telephone interviews and through focus groups. 
Telephone interviews will be conducted with community leaders 
(Community Leader Interview) in the five pilot sites to explore how the 
use of the Guide supported key leaders in their development of a 
diverse coalition and educating the community about issues facing 
adolescents. Focus groups will be conducted with coalition members 
(Coalition Member Focus Groups) from the five pilot sites to assess how 
the Guide facilitated the work of the coalition to develop a 
comprehensive community plan that addresses critically important 
adolescent health issues.
    Quantitative data will be collected through Web-based surveys with 
coalition members from the five communities and with secondary 
stakeholders--specifically, adolescent health experts and state/local 
health department officials--selected by OASH. The Coalition Assessment 
Survey will assess coalition members' perspectives on the usefulness 
and ease of implementing the Guide. The Secondary Stakeholder Survey 
will engage Adolescent Health researchers and practitioners to garner 
additional feedback and assessment of the Guide.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                    Number of
                   Form name                        Number of     responses per      Hours per     Total burden
                                                   respondents      respondent       response          hours
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Community Leader Interview (CLI)...............              50                1               1              50
Coalition Member Focus Group (CFG).............              80                1               1              80
Coalition Assessment Survey (CAS)..............             250                1             .25              63
Secondary Stakeholder Survey (SSS).............              50                1              .5              25
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    Total......................................             430  ...............  ..............             218
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    OASH specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and 
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper 
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the 
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to 
minimize the information collection burden.

Terry S. Clark,
Asst. Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-10199 Filed 4-29-16; 8:45 am]
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