[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 23, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57594-57595]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-20110]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

 [Document Identifier: HHS-OS-0990-New-30D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of 
Health and Human Services, has submitted an Information Collection 
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR is for a new collection. 
Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be 
provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public on 
this ICR during the review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before September 22, 
2016.

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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or via 
facsimile to (202) 395-5806.

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 Information Collection Request Title 
and document identifier HHS-OS-0990-New-30D 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 by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on a 
new Information Collection Request.
    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    Average burden
                    Form Name                        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)         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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Terry S. Clark,
Asst Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-20110 Filed 8-22-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4150-28-P