[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 102 (Thursday, May 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32030-32031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-11364]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Sexual Risk Avoidance 
Education National Evaluation: Nationwide Study of the National 
Descriptive 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 Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), 
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS), proposes survey and focus group data 
collection activities for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National 
Evaluation (SRAENE) Nationwide Study (NWS) of the National Descriptive 
Study.

DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting public comment 
on the specific aspects of the information collection described above.

ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of 
information and submit comments by emailing 
[email protected]. Identify all requests by the title of 
the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Description: OPRE/ACF/HHS proposes to conduct the NWS, a sub-study 
under the National Descriptive Study (NDS) of the SRAENE, to learn 
about Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program implementation 
experiences and outcomes of the SRAE grant program. The NWS builds on 
the Early Implementation Study, the first sub-study of the NDS, which 
was designed to tell the story about SRAE grant program plans (OMB 
Control #0970-0530). The NWS, which supports Congress's reauthorization 
in February 2018 of title V, section 510 of the Social Security Act 
(Pub. L. 115-123) and extended by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and 
Economic Security (CARES) ACT of 2020 (Pub. L. 116-136), will use a 
mixed-methods approach of surveys and focus groups to tell the story of 
the SRAE grant program, collecting detailed information on grantee 
program implementation experiences from grant recipients, SRAE program 
providers and facilitators, and youth program recipients. The NWS will 
also make use of extant data from grant-recipient performance measures 
on program outputs and outcomes. Combined with data on program 
implementation, the NWS will examine associations between 
implementation, outputs, and outcomes. The survey and focus group data 
are key to fully understanding program implementation experiences from 
all levels that bring the SRAE programs to youth-from grant 
administrators to program supervisors to the facilitators who interact 
directly with the youth themselves.
    The study is being undertaken by ACF and its contractor 
Mathematica. The study research questions driving the need for data 
collection are as follows:
    1. What are grant recipients' and providers' experiences with 
delivering SRAE curricular content? What are youth's experiences with 
receiving the SRAE curricular content?
    2. How did grant recipients and providers interpret, understand, 
and address the A to F topics in the SRAE legislation?
    3. Are some features of implementation more strongly associated 
with youth outcomes than others?
    4. What provider characteristics are associated with a greater 
number of youth served and with youth outcomes?
    To support these efforts, ACF proposes the following data 
collection activities: (1) A web-based survey of all grant recipient 
Directors who are not also providers, (2) a web-based survey of all 
SRAE program providers, (3) a web-based survey of all SRAE program 
facilitators, and (4) in-person (or virtual if necessary) focus groups 
with youth recipients of SRAE programming across five geographic 
regions of the United States.
    Respondents: Respondents to the surveys will be SRAE program grant 
Directors, SRAE program providers, and SRAE program facilitators. Focus 
group participants will be youth recipients of SRAE programming. The 
focus group participants will be recruited from middle and high school 
across five U.S. Geographic regions: West, Midwest, Southwest, 
Southeast, and Northeast.

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                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of
                                                     Number of     responses per
                                                    respondents     respondent      Avg. burden    Total/annual
                   Instrument                       (total over     (total over    per response     burden (in
                                                      request         request       (in hours)        hours)
                                                      period)         period)
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(1) NWS Grantee Survey..........................              40               1             .17               7
(2) NWS Provider Survey.........................             500               1             .75             375
(3) NWS Facilitator Survey......................           1,600               1              .5             800
 (4)SRAE Program Youth Focus Group Discussion                200               1             .75             150
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,332.
    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: The Title V Competitive SRAE Program was authorized and 
funded by section 510 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 710), as 
amended by section 50502 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 
115-123) and extended by the CARES Act of 2020 (Pub. L. 116-136).
    See https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title05/0510.htm.

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-11364 Filed 5-25-22; 8:45 am]
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