[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 155 (Monday, August 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55050-55051]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-17364]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Replication of Recovery and 
Reunification Interventions for Families-Impact Study (New Collection)

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration 
for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is 
proposing a data collection activity as part of the Replication of 
Recovery and Reunification Interventions for Families-Impact Study (R3-
Impact). The R3-Impact Study aims to satisfy the legislative 
requirements called for by the 2018 SUPPORT for Patients and 
Communities Act by replicating and testing the efficacy of two recovery 
coaching interventions for families engaged in the child welfare system 
due to parental substance use disorders.

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 requests by the 
title of the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: The R3-Impact study will use experimental and quasi-
experimental designs to test the effectiveness of the recovery coaching 
interventions on key child welfare and parent well-being outcomes. The 
implementation study will document the fidelity of program 
implementation, describe the services participants receive under each 
approach, and provide operational lessons gathered directly from 
practitioners. These goals represent ACF's interest in understanding 
whether recovery coaching interventions yield successful parental 
recovery and child welfare outcomes, and if so, whether the potential 
exists to scale the interventions for the benefit of more affected 
families. The proposed information collection activity consists of (1) 
Baseline data collection: collection of baseline demographic and parent 
well-being data from study participants; (2) Contact form: short form 
sent to study participants quarterly for one year after study 
enrollment to keep contact information current and generally maintain 
the participant's connection to the study; (3) Validation interviews: 
short interviews with a

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subset of study participants to monitor the quality of data collection 
interviews and to validate that the interviewer spoke with the 
participant; (4) Implementation study interviews: using topic guides, 
collect information from program supervisors and frontline staff, 
community providers, child welfare staff, and parents enrolled in the 
programs to assess the fidelity of implementation, document program 
services, and gather operational lessons; and (5) Parent Interview 
Information Form: demographic information to support analysis of parent 
perspectives by personal characteristics and history. Future 
information collection requests will be submitted to collect follow-up 
data.
    Respondents: Parents enrolled in the R3-Impact Study, and program 
and agency staff involved in implementing the R3 interventions.

                                             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 period)      request       (in hours)
                                                      period)
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Baseline Parent Survey........  2,750...........               1             .75            2063             688
Contact Form..................  1,843...........               4             .17           1,253             418
Validation Interviews.........  275.............               1             .08              22               7
Topic Guide-Child Welfare Lead  60..............               1               1              60              20
 Staff.
Topic Guide-Child Welfare       60..............               1               1              60              20
 Frontline Staff.
Topic Guide-Partners..........  120.............               1               1             120              40
Topic Guide-Program Managers..  60..............               1             1.5              90              30
Topic Guide-Mentor Supervisors  60..............               1             1.5              90              30
Topic Guide-Parent/Family       60..............               1             1.5              90              30
 Mentors.
Topic Guide-Parents...........  30..............               1               1              30              10
Parent Interview Information    30..............               1              .1               3               1
 Form.
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,294.
    Authority: The Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes 
Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (SUPPORT 
for Patients and Communities Act; Pub. L. 115-271)

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-17364 Filed 8-11-23; 8:45 am]
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