[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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