[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 30, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67955-67956]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26102]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; 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 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 December 30, 2021. 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: 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 the 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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                                                      No. of
                                      No. 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
    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.


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Linda Hitt,
ACF Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-26102 Filed 11-26-21; 4:15 pm]
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