[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1388-1389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00306]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Evaluation 
of Resources To Support the Identification and Care of Children With 
Prenatal Substance or Alcohol Exposure in the Child Welfare System (New 
Collection)

AGENCY: Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and 
Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is 
proposing to collect data for an evaluation of a set of resources that 
are

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being developed to support the identification and care of children with 
prenatal substance or alcohol exposure in the child welfare system.

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. The Office of 
Management and Budget (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. You can 
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by 
emailing [email protected]. Identify all emailed requests by 
the title of the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: The proposed information collection effort will gather 
data from end users of a toolkit of resources sponsored by the 
Children's Bureau in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention under an interagency agreement. The toolkit is intended 
to support child welfare agency staff in the identification and support 
of children living with prenatal exposure to alcohol and other 
substances. The data collected will be used in a formative evaluation 
of the toolkit, which will be guided by three research questions: (1) 
To what degree do agency staff find toolkit resource to be relevant and 
applicable to their work?; (2) To what degree do toolkit resources 
change agency staff attitudes and increase staff knowledge?; (3) What 
implementation approaches and organizational supports facilitate 
toolkit use by child welfare agencies? Proposed data sources for this 
effort include five surveys: (1) a survey to measure users' reactions 
to the toolkit; (2) a survey of users' attitudes toward Prenatal 
Alcohol Exposure (PAE)-related issues; (3) a survey of users' knowledge 
about PAE-related issues; and (4 and 5) two versions of a survey of 
transfer potential and perceived competence, which measures users' 
sense of competence in PAE-related knowledge and skills and the extent 
to which users believe they will transfer knowledge/skills to their 
work. One version of this instrument contains the full survey and will 
be administered after users have been exposed to the full toolkit and 
its resources. The second version contains a smaller selection of key 
items from the survey, tailored to collect information from users after 
their exposure to each of five key modules of the toolkit. All data 
will be collected over the course of 6-9 months in 2023.
    Respondents: Child welfare professionals, including state and/or 
county-level directors of child welfare agencies; supervisors; program 
staff (e.g., investigation/intake, case management, foster care/
adoption/permanency, etc.); staff working in specialist roles that 
align with toolkit resources (e.g., data/quality improvement 
specialists); local or state agency managers involved in determining 
agency strategic plans and practice guidance (e.g., substance-exposed 
newborn program manager); training system lead staff.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                   Total number   Average burden
                   Instrument                      Total number    of responses      hours per     Total/annual
                                                  of respondents  per respondent     response      burden hours
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Survey of reactions to the toolkit..............              32               1             .05               2
Survey of attitudes.............................              32               2             .17              11
Survey of PAE-related knowledge.................              32               3             .27              26
Survey of transfer potential and perceived                    32               1             .09               3
 competency.....................................
Module-specific transfer potential and perceived              32               5             .03               5
 competency items...............................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 47.
    Authority: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Reauthorization 
Act, 42 U.S.C. 5105, (2010).

John M. Sweet Jr.,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-00306 Filed 1-9-23; 8:45 am]
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