[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 111 (Thursday, June 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37196-37198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-13610]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request Title: 
Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative: Part 
Two

    OMB No.: New Collection.

Description

    The purpose of this evaluation is to respond to a set of cross-
cutting evaluation questions posed by the Children's Bureau. This new 
data collection is the second part of a larger data collection effort 
being conducted for the evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity 
Building Collaborative. The first group of instruments for this 
evaluation has already been submitted, and a request for clearance has 
been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (see Federal 
Register Volume 80, No. 211, November 2, 2015 and Federal Register 
Volume 81, No. 41, March 2, 2016). This notice details the second group 
of instruments that

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will be used for data collection as part of this evaluation. The 
Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative is 
sponsored by the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and 
Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The 
Capacity Building Collaborative includes three centers (Center for 
States, Center for Tribes, Center for Courts) funded by the Children's 
Bureau to provide national child welfare expertise and evidence-
informed training and technical assistance services to State, Tribal 
and Territorial public child welfare agencies and Court Improvement 
Programs (CIP). The Centers offer a wide array of services including, 
but not limited to: Web-based content and resources, product 
development and dissemination, self-directed and group-based training, 
virtual learning and peer networking events, and tailored consultation 
and coaching. During the project period the Centers' services will be 
evaluated by both Center-specific evaluations and a Cross-Center 
Evaluation. The Center-specific evaluations are designed to collect 
data on Center-specific processes and outcomes.
    The Cross-Center Evaluation will examine: The extent to which key 
partners across and within the Centers are collaborating; whether the 
capacity building service interventions offered by the Centers are 
evaluable; the degree to which Centers follow common protocols; whether 
service interventions are delivered or performed as designed; how 
satisfied recipients are with the services received; how effective the 
service interventions were; which service approaches were most 
effective and under what conditions; and the costs of services. The 
Cross-Center Evaluation is utilizing a longitudinal mixed methods 
approach to evaluate the Centers' services as they develop and mature 
over the course of the study period.
    Multiple data collection strategies will be used to efficiently 
capture quantitative and qualitative data to enable analyses that 
address each evaluation question. The first set of Cross-Center and 
Center-specific instruments submitted as part of the larger information 
collection included: Satisfaction surveys to assess recipients' 
satisfaction; a leadership interview, administered to all State child 
welfare directors, Tribal child welfare directors, and CIP coordinators 
that receive services; a Web-based collaboration survey, administered 
to the directors and staff of the three Centers; assessment tools; and 
service-specific feedback forms.
    This second group of data sources proposed for the Cross-Center 
Evaluation in this notice include: (1) A capacity survey to capture 
perceived changes in organizational capacity after receiving Center 
services; (2) a foundational assessment to capture contextual data 
regarding the organizational health and functioning of child welfare 
agencies and courts; (3) a follow-up survey that will examine short-
term and intermediate outcomes among CIPs that receive different levels 
of tailored services following continuous quality improvement (CQI) 
workshops; and(4)a key informant survey and interview to examine how 
capacity building services are incorporated into state and tribal 
activities to support implementation of Public Law 113-183. Additional 
Center-specific data sources proposed in this notice include (1) 
registration forms such as webinar and CapLEARN (learning management 
system) registration forms and (2) service-specific feedback forms and 
interviews, such as the Center for States Tailored Services interviews 
and the Center for Courts Universal and Constituency Services survey.

Respondents

    Respondents of this second set of data collection instruments will 
include (1) child welfare agency staff and stakeholders who directly 
receive services that have been tailored to the needs of their 
jurisdiction and (2) CIP coordinators, CIP Directors, and other project 
staff. The proposed data collection will span three years.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                   Instrument                      Annual number   responses per     hours per     Total annual
                                                  of respondents    respondent       response      burden hours
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Capacity Survey.................................             462               1             .39          180.18
Foundational Assessment Survey..................             277               1              .1            27.7
CQI Workshop Follow-Up Survey...................              48               2             .12           11.52
P.L.113-183 Key Informant Survey................              52               1             .26           13.52
P.L. 113-183 Key Informant Interview............               5               1               1               5
Center for Courts: Universal and Constituency                104               1             .41           42.64
 Services.......................................
Webinar Registration............................           4,650               1             .03           139.5
Center for States: Tailored Services Interviews.              60               1               1              60
Center for States: Assessment and Work Planning              150               1             .25            37.5
 Survey.........................................
CapLearn Registration...........................             600               1            .084            50.4
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 567.96.
    In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and 
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the 
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed 
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded 
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. Email 
address: [email protected]. All requests should be identified 
by the title of the information collection.
    The Department specifically requests comments 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) 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. 
Consideration will be given to

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comments and suggestions submitted within 60 days of this publication.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-13610 Filed 6-8-16; 8:45 am]
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