[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23025-23026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07008]


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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; Home Visiting Assessment 
of Implementation Quality Study: Exploring Family Voice and Leadership 
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 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 May 3, 
2024.

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, email Joella Roland, the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call 
(301) 443-3983.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Home Visiting Assessment of 
Implementation Quality Study: Exploring Family Voice and Leadership 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, Sec.  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 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

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visiting programs. One of the three quality components the study will 
focus on is family voice and leadership (FVL), which involves including 
families in decisions related to program implementation. The requested 
information collection will provide a better understanding of how 
MIECHV-funded home visiting programs currently engage families and will 
provide preliminary information on how FVL may influence home visiting 
implementation and program quality. Information collection activities 
include two online surveys, focus groups, and interviews.
    A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on December 
5, 2023, 88 FR 84339-84340. There was one response to public comment 
from a home visiting model developer. The commentor expressed concerns 
about the estimated burden for focus group and made suggestions for 
language changes including use of plain language, clarifying 
instructions, and providing questions in advance. In response to these 
comments, the burden hours for focus groups and interviews were 
increased, and the number of items on the MIECHV Program FVL Online 
Survey was reduced. Recommendations for language revisions were 
incorporated into the revised information collection tools. An 
additional information collection tool was added to this ICR to 
facilitate the recruitment of families for participation in a focus 
group (Family Focus Group Recruitment Survey). Two form names were also 
modified slightly: the Tribal and State MIECHV Administrators Interview 
Guide was renamed the MIECHV Lead Interview Guide, and the LIA Program 
Staff Focus Group Protocol was renamed the Home Visiting Program Staff 
Focus Group Protocol.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA is seeking 
additional information about how the MIECHV program engages and 
supports families in leadership opportunities to inform and improve 
programs. HRSA intends to use this information to identify actionable 
strategies that MIECHV awardees and LIAs could take to engage families 
meaningfully and effectively in program decisions and to ensure that 
families' unique strengths, needs, cultures, and preferences drive 
service delivery.
    Likely Respondents: MIECHV awardees that are states, nonprofit 
organizations, and tribes, LIA staff (program directors, coordinators, 
supervisors, and home visitors); and families who have been engaged in 
FVL activities by MIECHV-funded home visiting programs.
    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. Compared to the versions submitted for the 
60-day approval process in December, estimated burden hours have 
increased as a result of adding an additional information collection 
activity and implementing the feedback provided in public comments 
during the 60-day comment period and pre-testing data collection 
protocols. 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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MIECHV Program FVL Online Survey            1000               1            1000            0.33             330
Family Focus Group Protocol.....              48               1              48            1.50              72
MIECHV Lead Interview Guide.....              12               1              12            1.50              18
Home Visiting Program Staff                   48               1              48            1.50              72
 Focus Group Protocol...........
Family Focus Group Recruitment               100               1             100            0.08               8
 Survey.........................
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    Total.......................           1,208  ..............           1,208  ..............             500
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-07008 Filed 4-2-24; 8:45 am]
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