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Commonwealth Business Bank, both of
Los Angeles, California.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, May 18, 2017.
Yao-Chin Chao,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
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Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Title: Behavioral Interventions to
Advance Self-Sufficiency Next
Generation (BIAS–NG).
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Office of Planning,
Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the
Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS)
requests Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for a 3-year
pilot generic clearance to collect data as
part of rapid cycle testing and
evaluation, in order to inform the design
of interventions informed by behavioral
science and to better understand the
mechanisms and effects of such
interventions. These interventions,
which will be in the program area
domains of Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families (TANF) and child
welfare, are intended to improve
outcomes for participants in these
programs.
OPRE plans to conduct the Behavioral
Interventions to Advance SelfSufficiency Next Generation (BIAS–NG)
project. This project will use behavioral
insights to design and test interventions
intended to improve the efficiency,
operations, and efficacy of human
services programs. The BIAS–NG
project will apply behavioral insights to
a range of ACF programs including
TANF, Child Welfare, and other
program areas to be determined. This
notice is specific to data collection with
TANF and Child Welfare sites; when
and if the project desires to work in
other program areas, OPRE will publish
a Federal Register notice allowing for
public comment and will submit a new
information collection request for that
work. Under this pilot generic
clearance, OPRE plans to work with
approximately six sites to conduct
approximately two tests per site, for a
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total of approximately 12 tests of
behavioral interventions.
The design and testing of BIAS NG
interventions will be rapid and iterative.
Each specific intervention will be
designed in consultation with agency
leaders and launched quickly. To
maximize the likelihood that the
intervention produces measurable,
significant, positive effects on outcomes
of interest, rapid cycle evaluation
techniques will be employed in which
proximate outcomes will be measured to
allow the research team to rapidly
iterate and adjust the intervention
design, informing subsequent tests. Due
to the rapid and iterative nature of this
work OPRE seeks generic clearance to
conduct this research. Following
standard OMB requirements for generic
clearances, once instruments are
tailored to a specific site and the site’s
intervention, OPRE will submit an
individual generic information
collection request under this umbrella
clearance. Each request will include the
individual instrument(s), a justification
specific to the individual information
collection, a description of the proposed
intervention, and any supplementary
documents. Each specific information
collection will include two submissions:
First, a submission for the formative
stage research and second, a submission
for the test and evaluation materials. In
this notice we describe the types of
information expected to be collected for
each test and the expected burden.
To ensure maximal relevance to the
domain areas selected (i.e., Child
Welfare and TANF), the project has
identified a set of broad problems that
affect entire domain areas rather than
problems that are idiosyncratic to a
particular program. In each of the
approximately six sites with which the
project will work under this clearance,
interventions will be designed and
tested using an approach called
behavioral diagnosis and design which
will involve determining how identified
problems operate within each site’s
specific context, diagnosing behavioral
reasons for those problems, designing
interventions informed by behavioral
insights, and rigorously testing the
interventions. Information will be
collected throughout this process. The
information that will be collected is
specific to each of the sites, will not be
collected indefinitely, and is not
intended to be interpreted as applicable
to other sites or to other programs. In
addition, in working with the project to
design the behavioral interventions to
be tested, some sites may decide to
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change what data they collect and/or the
questions they ask the public to answer.
Such decisions will be controlled by the
sites, not by the project.
In order to define and diagnose
program challenges and design
appropriate interventions, OPRE plans
to conduct interviews and focus groups
with administrators, staff, and/or clients
in each of the approximately six sites.
OPRE will field client and/or staff
surveys in order to hear from a breadth
of perspectives. In addition to
interviews, focus groups, and surveys,
OPRE anticipates observing program
activities and reviewing documents and
administrative data. This information
will be critical to diagnosing where and
why programs are facing challenges and
which behavioral interventions may
have an impact.
During the testing phase OPRE
anticipates conducting mixed-methods
evaluations consisting of
implementation, impact, and cost
research for the approximately two tests
in each of the approximately six total
sites that will be engaged across the two
program areas included under this
clearance, TANF and Child Welfare (for
a total of 12 tests). To better understand
how the intervention is being
implemented and its effects, OPRE
anticipates conducting interviews and
focus groups with program
administrators, staff, and/or clients in
each site. Because not all outcomes of
interest (for example, improved
understanding of and/or satisfaction
with the foster parent recruitment
process) are reflected in administrative
records, OPRE anticipates conducting
client surveys and staff surveys.
Interest in participating in BIAS–NG
is expected to be high, and it is not
expected that systematic recruitment of
sites will be necessary. Within each site,
we do not intend to do any active
recruitment as all those who are eligible
will be enrolled in the study and
randomization will be conducted using
a list of those who meet the eligibility
criteria. Findings from these tests will
be publicized through multiple
dissemination channels, which may
include but are not limited to reports on
individual tests, a final synthesis report,
presentations at conferences and
meetings, scholarly journal articles,
webinars, social media, press outreach,
newsletters, etc.
Respondents: (1) Program
Administrators (2) Program Staff and (3)
Program Clients.
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TOTAL BURDEN HOURS
Total
number of
respondents
Instrument
Diagnosis and Design Phase:
Administrator interviews/focus groups ......................................................
Staff interviews/focus groups ...................................................................
Client interviews/focus groups ..................................................................
Client survey .............................................................................................
Staff Survey ..............................................................................................
Evaluation Phase:
Administrator interviews/focus groups ......................................................
Staff interviews/focus groups ...................................................................
Client interviews/focus groups ..................................................................
Client Survey ............................................................................................
Staff survey ...............................................................................................
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,070
hours.
In compliance with the requirements
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment
on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above.
Copies of the proposed collection of
information can be obtained and
comments may be forwarded by writing
to the Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Planning, Research
and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE
Reports Clearance Officer. Email
address: OPREinfocollection@
acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be
identified by the title of the information
collection.
The Department specifically requests
comments on (a) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden
hours per
response
Total burden
hours
24
48
48
600
120
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
.25
.25
24
48
48
150
30
48
96
96
6,000
120
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
.25
.25
48
96
96
1,500
30
comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Mary Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017–10526 Filed 5–22–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
Title: Assessing the Implementation
and Cost of High Quality Early Care and
Education: Comparative Multi-Case
Study.
OMB No.: New.
Description: The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) seeks approval to collect
new information to use in developing
measures of the implementation and
costs of high quality early care and
education. This information collection
is part of the project, Assessing the
Implementation and Cost of High
Quality Early Care and Education (ECE–
ICHQ). The project’s goal is to create a
technically sound and feasible
instrument that will provide consistent,
systematic measures of the
implementation and costs of education
and care in center-based settings that
serve children from birth to age 5. The
resulting measures will inform research,
policy, and practice by improving
understanding of variations in what
centers do to support quality, their
associated costs, and how resources for
ECE may be better aligned with
expectations for quality. The goals of the
study are (1) to test and refine a mixed
methods approach to identifying the
implementation activities and costs of
key functions within ECE centers and
(2) to produce data for creating
measures of implementation and costs.
The study recently collected data
through on-site visits to 15 centers as
part of an initial phase of data collection
under clearance, #0970–0355. In this
initial phase, the study team tested data
collection tools and methods, conducted
cognitive interviews to obtain feedback
from respondents about the tools, and
used the information to reduce and
refine the tools for the next phase of
data collection. This request is focused
on the next phase of data collection
which will include 50 ECE centers in
three states. The next phase will rely on
remote data collection through
electronic data collection tools,
telephone interviews, and web-based
surveys.
Respondents: ECE site administrators
or center directors, program directors,
education specialists, financial
managers or accountants, lead teachers,
and assistant teachers.
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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Total/annual
number of
respondents
Instrument
Initial email to selected center directors ..........................................................
Center recruitment call ....................................................................................
Center engagement call ..................................................................................
Implementation interview: Center director .......................................................
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Number of
responses per
respondent
400
415
50
50
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1
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Average
burden
hours per
response
.08
.33
.42
3
Annual
burden hours
32
137
21
150
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 98 (Tuesday, May 23, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23572-23573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-10526]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Title: Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency Next
Generation (BIAS-NG).
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE)
in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) requests Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for a 3-year pilot generic clearance to collect
data as part of rapid cycle testing and evaluation, in order to inform
the design of interventions informed by behavioral science and to
better understand the mechanisms and effects of such interventions.
These interventions, which will be in the program area domains of
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child welfare, are
intended to improve outcomes for participants in these programs.
OPRE plans to conduct the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-
Sufficiency Next Generation (BIAS-NG) project. This project will use
behavioral insights to design and test interventions intended to
improve the efficiency, operations, and efficacy of human services
programs. The BIAS-NG project will apply behavioral insights to a range
of ACF programs including TANF, Child Welfare, and other program areas
to be determined. This notice is specific to data collection with TANF
and Child Welfare sites; when and if the project desires to work in
other program areas, OPRE will publish a Federal Register notice
allowing for public comment and will submit a new information
collection request for that work. Under this pilot generic clearance,
OPRE plans to work with approximately six sites to conduct
approximately two tests per site, for a total of approximately 12 tests
of behavioral interventions.
The design and testing of BIAS NG interventions will be rapid and
iterative. Each specific intervention will be designed in consultation
with agency leaders and launched quickly. To maximize the likelihood
that the intervention produces measurable, significant, positive
effects on outcomes of interest, rapid cycle evaluation techniques will
be employed in which proximate outcomes will be measured to allow the
research team to rapidly iterate and adjust the intervention design,
informing subsequent tests. Due to the rapid and iterative nature of
this work OPRE seeks generic clearance to conduct this research.
Following standard OMB requirements for generic clearances, once
instruments are tailored to a specific site and the site's
intervention, OPRE will submit an individual generic information
collection request under this umbrella clearance. Each request will
include the individual instrument(s), a justification specific to the
individual information collection, a description of the proposed
intervention, and any supplementary documents. Each specific
information collection will include two submissions: First, a
submission for the formative stage research and second, a submission
for the test and evaluation materials. In this notice we describe the
types of information expected to be collected for each test and the
expected burden.
To ensure maximal relevance to the domain areas selected (i.e.,
Child Welfare and TANF), the project has identified a set of broad
problems that affect entire domain areas rather than problems that are
idiosyncratic to a particular program. In each of the approximately six
sites with which the project will work under this clearance,
interventions will be designed and tested using an approach called
behavioral diagnosis and design which will involve determining how
identified problems operate within each site's specific context,
diagnosing behavioral reasons for those problems, designing
interventions informed by behavioral insights, and rigorously testing
the interventions. Information will be collected throughout this
process. The information that will be collected is specific to each of
the sites, will not be collected indefinitely, and is not intended to
be interpreted as applicable to other sites or to other programs. In
addition, in working with the project to design the behavioral
interventions to be tested, some sites may decide to change what data
they collect and/or the questions they ask the public to answer. Such
decisions will be controlled by the sites, not by the project.
In order to define and diagnose program challenges and design
appropriate interventions, OPRE plans to conduct interviews and focus
groups with administrators, staff, and/or clients in each of the
approximately six sites. OPRE will field client and/or staff surveys in
order to hear from a breadth of perspectives. In addition to
interviews, focus groups, and surveys, OPRE anticipates observing
program activities and reviewing documents and administrative data.
This information will be critical to diagnosing where and why programs
are facing challenges and which behavioral interventions may have an
impact.
During the testing phase OPRE anticipates conducting mixed-methods
evaluations consisting of implementation, impact, and cost research for
the approximately two tests in each of the approximately six total
sites that will be engaged across the two program areas included under
this clearance, TANF and Child Welfare (for a total of 12 tests). To
better understand how the intervention is being implemented and its
effects, OPRE anticipates conducting interviews and focus groups with
program administrators, staff, and/or clients in each site. Because not
all outcomes of interest (for example, improved understanding of and/or
satisfaction with the foster parent recruitment process) are reflected
in administrative records, OPRE anticipates conducting client surveys
and staff surveys.
Interest in participating in BIAS-NG is expected to be high, and it
is not expected that systematic recruitment of sites will be necessary.
Within each site, we do not intend to do any active recruitment as all
those who are eligible will be enrolled in the study and randomization
will be conducted using a list of those who meet the eligibility
criteria. Findings from these tests will be publicized through multiple
dissemination channels, which may include but are not limited to
reports on individual tests, a final synthesis report, presentations at
conferences and meetings, scholarly journal articles, webinars, social
media, press outreach, newsletters, etc.
Respondents: (1) Program Administrators (2) Program Staff and (3)
Program Clients.
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Total Burden Hours
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Total number Number of Average
Instrument of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Diagnosis and Design Phase:
Administrator interviews/focus groups....... 24 1 1 24
Staff interviews/focus groups............... 48 1 1 48
Client interviews/focus groups.............. 48 1 1 48
Client survey............................... 600 1 .25 150
Staff Survey................................ 120 1 .25 30
Evaluation Phase:
Administrator interviews/focus groups....... 48 1 1 48
Staff interviews/focus groups............... 96 1 1 96
Client interviews/focus groups.............. 96 1 1 96
Client Survey............................... 6,000 1 .25 1,500
Staff survey................................ 120 1 .25 30
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Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,070 hours.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW., Washington, DC
20201, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. Email address:
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified by
the title of the information collection.
The Department specifically requests comments on (a) whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Mary Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-10526 Filed 5-22-17; 8:45 am]
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