[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5630-5631]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-02476]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

    Title: Preventing and Addressing Intimate Violence When Engaging 
Dads.
    OMB Number: New Collection.
    Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), 
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) proposes to collect 
information as part of the Preventing and Addressing Intimate Violence 
when Engaging Dads (PAIVED) study. Since 2006, the Healthy Marriage and 
Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) initiative has funded programs that play 
a key role in helping the Office of Family Assistance

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(OFA) achieve its goals to foster economically secure households and 
communities for the well-being and long-term success of children and 
families. The purpose of the PAIVED study is to better understand the 
prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by the 
population of fathers served by Responsible Fatherhood (RF) programs, 
and the services that federally-funded RF programs are providing to 
address and contribute to the prevention of IPV among its participants. 
The proposed data collection will include whether IPV content is 
included in RF programs, the types of activities they are using to 
address IPV, and related successes and challenges. Other collected data 
will include barriers to addressing IPV in RF programs, the relevance 
of addressing IPV with fathers, fathers' reactions to this programming, 
and what types of partnerships RF programs have with other agencies to 
address IPV. This information will be collected through interviews 
conducted over the phone and in-person with RF grantee program staff 
and community partners. This information will be critical to inform 
future efforts to address and contribute to the prevention of IPV 
through RF programming.
    Respondents: Responsible Fatherhood grantee program staff (e.g., 
program directors and facilitators) and community partners.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                   Total/annual      Number of    Average burden
                   Instrument                        number of     responses per     hours per     Annual burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       response          hours
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RF grantee/community partner screening and                    37               1               1              37
 participant recruitment........................
RF grantee program staff semi-structured                      23               1             1.5              35
 interview......................................
Community partner semi-structured interview.....              10               1             1.5              15
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 87.
    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, 330 C Street SW, Washington, DC 
20201, 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 comments and suggestions submitted 
within 60 days of this publication.

Mary Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-02476 Filed 2-7-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4184-73-P