[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 92 (Friday, May 12, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30767-30768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10192]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Enhancing HIV Care of 
Women, Infants, Children and Youth Building Capacity Through 
Communities of Practice

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA 
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted 
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB 
will accept further comments from the public during the review and 
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day 
comment period for this notice has closed.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than June 12, 
2023.

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 Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, Samantha Miller, the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call 
(301) 594-4394.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Enhancing HIV Care of Women, 
Infants, Children and Youth Building Capacity through Communities of 
Practice, OMB No. 0915-xxxx--New.
    Abstract: HRSA aims to increase delivery of evidence-based 
interventions that enhance client outcomes, increase the skill level of 
the HIV workforce providing care and treatment to Women, Infants, 
Children and Youth, and involve partnerships for dissemination of best 
practices to Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Part D participants. 
To that end, HRSA seeks to implement a Communities of Practice (CoP) 
platform for RWHAP Part D recipients. A CoP engages recipient teams in 
improvement learning sessions using subject matter experts along with 
application experts who help recipient teams select, test, and 
implement changes on the front line of care. Through organizational 
self-assessments, didactic learning on specific care topics, goals 
setting, and work plan development, each team can strategically benefit 
their organization. CoPs afford participants the opportunity to work in 
a group to solve a recognized challenge related to a CoP domain and 
support dialogue among participants and the consultant/subject matter 
experts. Recipient teams commit to working over a period of 12 months, 
alternating between Learning Sessions in which teams come together to 
learn about the chosen topic and to plan changes, and Action Periods in 
which the teams return to their respective organizations and test those 
changes in their clinic settings. The domains for the proposed CoPs are 
trauma informed care, pre-conception counseling, and youth 
transitioning into adult HIV care services.
    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on February 27, 
2023, vol. 88, No. 38; pp. 12386-12387. The one comment received was 
outside the scope of the ICR, and therefore no changes to the 
information collection were made as a result of this comment.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Process and outcome 
evaluations are a critical part of ensuring that CoP initiatives were 
implemented as planned and met their intended outcome. Evaluation of 
technical assistance (TA) depends on establishing clear goals and plans 
from the beginning of the process. This includes specifying the 
intended impact of the TA with concrete, measurable objectives. To 
judge performance against goals, HRSA will administer TA evaluation 
surveys following TA and training, webinars, teleconferences, and 
meetings. Findings will drive quality improvement activities and 
reports.
    The evaluation plan focuses on process and impact evaluation of all 
CoP Teams (Pre-Conception Counseling and Sexual Health, Trauma-Informed 
Care, and Transitioning Adolescents to Adult Care) over the duration of 
the 4-year period of performance. The evaluation plan components will 
be operationalized to include TA satisfaction measures (reaction), 
change in knowledge after the TA (learning), and change in behavior or 
practice after the introduction of evidence-based interventions 
(behavior). More specifically, the evaluation plan includes (1) post TA 
satisfaction measures, (2) pre-post measures of CoP staff knowledge 
about effective practices, (3) retrospective measures to gather 
measures of CoP staff knowledge for the first community of practice 
only, and (4) measures of TA usefulness and impact on CoP performance.
    Likely Respondents: Up to 90 RWHAP Part D Women, Infants, Children 
and Youth recipients will participate in the CoPs. Each recipient may 
have up to six staff members who may complete the survey.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information; to search

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data sources; to complete and review the collection of information; and 
to transmit or otherwise disclose the information. The total annual 
burden hours estimated for this ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                     Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                     Number of                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per  response   Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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Pre-conception Counseling                     90               1              90           .4733            42.6
 Community of Practice
 Retrospective Pretest-Post
 Assessment.....................
Community of Practice Pre-                   180               1             180           .2900            52.2
 Assessment.....................
Community of Practice Post-                  180               1             180           .3767            67.8
 Assessment.....................
Community of Practice Session                270               6           1,620           .0767           124.3
 Assessment.....................
Targeted and Intensive TA                    120               1             120           .0833            10.0
 Assessment.....................
Foundational TA Assessment......             150               1             150           .0616             9.2
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    Total.......................             990  ..............           2,340  ..............           306.1
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-10192 Filed 5-11-23; 8:45 am]
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