[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 15 (Thursday, January 23, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3922-3923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01018]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Family Level Assessment
and State of Home Visiting (FLASH-V) Outreach and Recruitment Study
(New Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; Administration
for Children and Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation is requesting public comment on new
data collection activities to gather information about how Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) local implementing
agencies (LIAs) recruit families for program participation and work
with their community referral partners to recruit families. The project
is designed to examine challenges programs experience reaching caseload
capacity and how challenges might be overcome.
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DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. 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.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed collection of information can be
obtained and comments may be forwarded by emailing
[email protected]. Alternatively, copies can also be
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), 330 C Street SW,
Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. All
requests, emailed or written should be identified by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The ACF Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
is proposing a new information collection to learn more about how
MIECHV-funded LIAs recruit families for home visiting services. Data
collection will take place in two phases: (1) Eligibility assessment
and preliminary data collection and (2) primary data collection. The
first phase, for MIECHV-funded LIAs, includes completion of an
eligibility assessment form, providing information about community
referral partners, and submitting program outreach and recruitment
materials. The second phase includes participation, for LIAs and
identified community referral partners, in a 75-minute semi-structured
interview. For a subset of LIAs, it also includes submitting management
information system (MIS) data. This descriptive work will capture how
LIAs and their community referral partners identify families, refer
families to home visiting services, and enroll and serve families. The
activities and products from this project will help ACF and the Health
Resources and Services Administration to identify actionable
bottlenecks in the recruitment and enrollment process to allow for the
development and testing of strategies to improve the delivery of
MIECHV-funded services.
Respondents: MIECHV-funded LIA administrators, program managers,
and frontline staff; LIAs participating in the Home Visiting Applied
Research Collaborative's (HARC) Practice-Based Research Network; and
LIA community referral partners.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Total/annual Number of Average
Instrument number of responses per burden hours Annual burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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LIA Eligibility Assessment Form................. 161 1 .25 40
LIA Eligibility Assessment Form for MIS Data.... 15 1 .25 4
Request for LIA Recommendations from HARC State 25 1 .25 6
Networks.......................................
Request to LIAs for Community Referral Partner 35 1 .25 9
Contact Information............................
Interview Protocol Local Implementing Agency.... 40 1 1.25 50
Interview Protocol Community Referral Partner... 150 1 1.25 188
MIS Data Submission............................. 16 1 8 128
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 425 hours.
Comments: 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.
Authority: Social Security Act Title V Sec. 511 [42 U.S.C.
711]. As extended by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-
123) through FY22.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-01018 Filed 1-22-20; 8:45 am]
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