[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 183 (Monday, September 21, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59318-59319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-20733]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; 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) state and territory 
local implementing agencies (LIAs) and tribal grantees 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 promising 
strategies to address how challenges might be overcome.

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a 
decision about the collection of information between 30 and 60 days 
after publication of this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, 
a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it 
within 30 days of publication.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Description: The ACF Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation 
is proposing a new information collection to learn more about how 
MIECHV-funded home visiting programs recruit families for home visiting 
services. The voluntary study will include a national survey of MIECHV-
funded program managers, semi-structured interviews with program staff, 
and a review of program outreach and recruitment materials. This 
descriptive work will capture how programs identify and recruit 
families to home visiting services. The study will also capture how 
outreach and recruitment challenges and accomplishments related to 
capacity have changed since COVID-19 and identify strategies programs 
have used to address associated challenges. The activities and products 
from this project will help ACF and the Health Resources and Services 
Administration to identify actionable bottlenecks in the outreach and 
recruitment process to allow for the development and testing of 
strategies to improve the delivery of MIECHV funded services.
    Respondents: MIECHV funded state, territory, or tribal grantee 
administrators; program administrators; program managers; and frontline 
staff.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                     Number of        Average
           Instrument              Total number    responses per   burden hours    Total burden    Annual burden
                                  of respondents    respondent     per response        hours           hours
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Request for LIA Contact                       56               1             .25              14               7
 Information from MIECHV Leads..
LIA Survey......................             779               1             .50             390             195
Interview Protocol Local                     120               1             .75              90              45
 Implementing Agency............
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 247 hours.

    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 FY 22.

John M. Sweet Jr.,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-20733 Filed 9-18-20; 8:45 am]
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