[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 4 (Friday, January 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 787-788]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00006]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Home-Based
Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age Children Study (New
Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, United States Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) at the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to collect information to
examine a toolkit of new measures designed to assess and strengthen the
quality of child care, the Home-Based Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing
School-Age Children (HBCC-NSAC Toolkit). This study aims to build
evidence about the English version of the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit for use by/
with providers caring for children in a residential setting (i.e.,
home-based child care [HBCC]).
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. 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 HBCC-NSAC Toolkit is designed for home-based
providers who regularly care for at least 1 school-age child who is not
their own. The purpose of the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit is to help home-based
providers identify their caregiving strengths and areas for growth. The
HBCC-NSAC Toolkit consists of a self-administered provider
questionnaire (composed of multiple newly developed measures) and a
family communication questionnaire (composed of 1 communication tool).
For validation purposes, the study will include the provider
questionnaire from the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit with additional items from
existing measures and a separate family survey with child and family
background information items and items from an existing measure. A
subset of providers will be observed with an existing observation
measure. Study participants will include home-based providers who can
complete the provider questionnaire in English. They must currently
care for at least 1 school-age child (age 5 and in kindergarten, or
ages 6 through 12) in a home for at least 10 hours per week and for at
least 8 weeks in the past year. These providers may also care for
younger children (ages birth through 5 and not yet in kindergarten).
Families (a parent or guardian of school-age children receiving care in
the HBCC setting) who can complete the family survey in English will
also be included in the study. The study will be based on a purposive
sample of home-based providers in at least 10 geographic locations to
maximize variation in the sample. OPRE proposes to collect survey and
observational data from home-based providers who are licensed or
regulated by states to provide child care and early education (CCEE)
and providers who are unlicensed or legally exempt from state
regulations for CCEE. Study participants may or may not participate in
the child care subsidy program. The data collection activities are
designed to provide critical information that is needed to analyze the
reliability and validity of the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit's provider
questionnaire. The resulting data will help ACF understand if the HBCC-
NSAC Toolkit's provider questionnaire can be used to support home-based
providers in identifying and reflecting on their
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caregiving strengths and areas for growth.
Respondents: Home-based providers; families of the children cared
for by the providers.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per Average Total/
Instrument respondents respondent (total burden per annual
(total over over request response burden (in
request period) period) (in hours) hours)
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1. Community organization onboarding call....... 30 1 1 30
2. Provider telephone script and recruitment 204 1 0.33 67
information collection.........................
3. Provider telephone script and recruitment 150 1 .42 63
information collection including observations..
4. Observation scheduling call.................. 60 1 .17 10
5. HBCC-NSAC Toolkit provider questionnaire..... 150 1 .83 125
6. HBCC-NSAC Toolkit family questionnaire....... 166 1 0.25 42
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 337.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9858.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-00006 Filed 1-4-24; 8:45 am]
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