[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 183 (Friday, September 24, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53061-53062]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20798]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Mother and Infant Home 
Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE): Long-Term Follow-Up, Kindergarten 
Data Collection (MIHOPE-K) (OMB #0970-0402)

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), in 
partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA), both of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 
is proposing to extend data collection activity as part of the 
kindergarten phase of the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program 
Evaluation Long-Term Follow-Up project (MIHOPE-K). The purpose of 
MIHOPE-K is to conduct a follow-up study that assesses the long-term 
impact of the Maternal, Infant, and

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Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program when the participating 
children are in kindergarten. This Federal Register notice is seeking 
to extend data collection for the kindergarten follow-up. The original 
Federal Register notices for the MIHOPE-K data collection were titled 
under MIHOPE-Long-Term Follow-Up (MIHOPE-LT).

DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with 
the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF 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, 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: This request for an extension is to complete the 
following data collection activities for MIHOPE-K: (1) A survey with 
the child's primary caregiver (who will be the mother if she is 
available), (2) direct assessments of child development, (3) surveys 
with the child's teacher, (4) a direct assessment of the caregiver, (5) 
videotaped interactions between the caregiver and child, (6) a 
caregiver website to provide current contact information, (7) state 
child welfare records, and (8) school records. In addition to 
collecting these data, the MIHOPE-K project will continue to maintain 
up-to-date consent forms for the collection of administrative data. 
Future information collection requests and related Federal Register 
notices will describe future data collection efforts for this project.
    Data collected during the kindergarten follow-up study is being 
used to estimate the effects of MIECHV-funded programs on the following 
seven domains: (1) Maternal health, (2) child health, (3) child 
development and school performance, (4) child maltreatment, (5) 
parenting, (6) crime or domestic violence, and (7) family economic 
self-sufficiency.
    Respondents: The respondents in this extension will include 1,391 
families who have not yet participated in the kindergarten follow-up 
study activities. We have assumed that only 25 percent of respondents 
will complete the caregiver website. We will also obtain child welfare 
data from 11 MIHOPE states and school records data from state and local 
agencies. We have assumed that we will obtain data from 11 states and 5 
local education agencies.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                     Number of
                                     Number of    responses  per
                                    respondents      respondent     Avg. burden    Total burden   Annual  burden
           Instrument               (total over     (total over    per response     (in hours)       (in hours)
                                      request         request       (in hours)
                                      period)         period)
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                             Burden for previously approved, ongoing data collection
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Survey of caregivers............           1,391               1            0.99           1,377             689
Direct assessments of children..           1,391               1            1.33           1,850             925
Survey of the focal children's             1,391               1             0.5             696             348
 teachers.......................
Direct assessments of caregivers           1,391               1            0.17             236             118
Videotaped caregiver-child                 2,782               1            0.25             696             348
 interactions...................
Caregiver website...............             348               1            0.17              59              30
State child welfare records:                  11               2              15             330             165
 data file submission...........
School records: data file                     16               2            22.5             720             360
 submission.....................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,983.
    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 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. 2021-20798 Filed 9-23-21; 8:45 am]
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