[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 23 (Friday, February 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7400-7401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02096]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Public Comment Request: Home Visiting Assessment of Implementation 
Quality Study: Understanding Supervisor Supports in Home Visiting

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection 
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the 
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the 
ICR.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than April 2, 
2024.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call Joella Roland, the 
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-3983.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Home Visiting Assessment of 
Implementation Quality Study: Understanding Supervisor Supports in Home 
Visiting, OMB No. 0915-xxxx--[NEW].
    Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting 
(MIECHV) Program, authorized by Social Security Act, title V, section 
511 (42 U.S.C. 711) and administered by HRSA in partnership with the 
Administration for Children and Families, supports voluntary, evidence-
based home visiting services during pregnancy and for parents with 
young children up to kindergarten entry. States, tribal entities, and 
certain nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive funding from 
the MIECHV Program and have the flexibility to tailor the program to 
serve the specific needs of their communities. Funding recipients may 
subaward grant funds to local implementing agencies (LIAs) to

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provide home visiting services to eligible families in at-risk 
communities.
    Through the Home Visiting Assessment of Implementation Quality 
study, HRSA aims to examine specific components of the Home Visiting 
Implementation Quality Conceptual Framework to inform strategies for 
implementing high quality home visiting programs. One of the three 
quality components the study will focus on is support for supervisors 
of home visitors. A qualified, stable, and supported home visitor 
workforce is an important quality component of home visiting, and 
supervision is a key part of supporting that workforce. The requested 
information collection will explore how training for supervisors may be 
linked to home visitor job satisfaction. It will also examine how 
supervisor training in important content areas (e.g., substance use, 
intimate partner violence) may affect the extent to which home visitors 
talk to families about these topics. Data collection will include an 
online recruitment survey, interviews, and focus groups.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA is seeking 
additional information about how the MIECHV Program can train and 
support supervisors of home visitors to provide high-quality 
supervision. HRSA intends to use this information to identify practices 
that MIECHV awardees and LIAs could use to best support home visiting 
supervisors, improving home visitors' ability to deliver high-quality 
home visiting services.
    Likely Respondents: MIECHV-funded LIA staff, including program 
directors, coordinators, supervisors, and home visitors.
    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 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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Recruitment Survey..............             250               1             250            0.17            42.5
LIA Program Director Interview                50               1              50            1.00            50.0
 Guide..........................
Supervisor Focus Group Protocol.              50               1              50            1.50            75.0
Home Visitor Focus Group                      50               1              50            1.50            75.0
 Protocol.......................
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    Total.......................             400  ..............             400  ..............           242.5
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    HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and 
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper 
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the 
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to 
minimize the information collection burden.

Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-02096 Filed 2-1-24; 8:45 am]
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