[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45904-45905]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11494]


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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: 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 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 24, 
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: Understanding Supervisor Supports in Home 
Visiting OMB No. 0906-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 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.
    A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on February 
2, 2024 at 89 FR 7400-01. There were no public comments.
    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.

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    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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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-11494 Filed 5-23-24; 8:45 am]
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