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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Project
Title: Supporting Healthy Marriage
(SHM) Demonstration and Evaluation
Project: 12-month Follow-up and
Implementation Research Data
Collection.
OMB No.: New Collection.
The Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, is
conducting a demonstration and
evaluation called the Supporting
Healthy Marriage (SHM) project. SHM is
a test of marriage education
demonstration programs in eight
separate locations that will aim to enroll
up to 1,000 couples per location, up to
500 couples participating in SHM
programs and 500 control group
couples.
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Income-related
monthly
adjustment
amount
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premium
amount
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103.30
142.00
$96.40
199.70
238.40
SHM is designed to inform program
operators and policymakers of the most
effective ways to help low-income
married couples strengthen and
maintain healthy marriages. In
particular, the project will measure the
effectiveness of marriage education
programs by randomly assigning eligible
volunteer couples to SHM program
groups and control groups.
This data collection request includes
three components. First, a survey will
be administered to couples 12 months
after they are enrolled in the program.
The survey is designed to assess the
effects of the SHM program on marital
status and stability, quality of
relationship with spouse, marital
expectations and ideals, marital
satisfaction, participation in services,
parenting outcomes, child outcomes,
parental well-being, employment,
income, material hardship, and social
support characteristics of study
participants assigned to both the
program and control groups. Second,
survey data will be complemented by
videotaped observations of couple, coparenting, and parent-child interactions
with a subset of intact and separated
couples at the 12-month follow-up.
Third, qualitative data will be collected
through a process and implementation
study in each of the eight SHM
demonstration programs across the
country.
These data will complement the
information gathered by the SHM
baseline data collection (OMB Control
No. 0970–0299). The information
collected at the 12-month follow-up will
allow the research team to examine the
effects of SHM services on outcomes of
interest and to identify mechanisms that
might account for these effects. The
process and implementation research
will consist of a qualitative component
that will help ACF to better understand
the results from the impact analysis as
well as how to replicate programs that
prove to be successful.
Respondents: Low-income married
couples with children.
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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Annual
number of
respondents
Instrument
12-month survey ..............................................................................................
12-month observational study (intact couples) ................................................
12-month observational study (separated couples) ........................................
12-month observational study (children of intact couples) ..............................
12-month observational study (children of separated couples) ......................
The process and implementation field research guide ...................................
Dated: October 1, 2007
Brendan C. Kelly,
OPRE Reports, Clearance Officer.
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Allocation and Expenditure Reports will
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Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS
Bureau to track spending requirements
for each program as outlined in the 2006
legislation. Grantees funded under Parts
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Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection:
Comment Request
In compliance with the requirement
for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects
(section 3506(c)(2)(A) of Title 44, United
States Code, as amended by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub.
L. 104–13), the Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA)
publishes periodic summaries of
proposed projects being developed for
submission to OMB under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, call the HRSA Reports
Clearance Officer on (301) 443–1129.
Comments are invited 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)
ways to enhance 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.
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Average burden hours per
response
Estimated
annual burden
hours
1
1
1
1
1
1
0.83
0.68
0.17
0.33
0.17
1
8,499.2
2,176
27.2
528
27.2
504
10,240
3,200
160
1,600
160
504
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 11,761.6.
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 Administration,
Office of Information Services, 370
L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington,
DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance
Officer. E-mail address:
infocollection@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.
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respondent
AIDS Program (codified under Title
XXVI of the Public Health Service Act)
would be required to report financial
data to HRSA at the beginning and end
of their grant cycle.
All Parts of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program specify HRSA’s responsibilities
in the administration of grant funds.
Accurate allocation and expenditure
records of the grantees receiving Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Program funding are
critical to the implementation of the
legislation and thus are necessary for
HRSA to fulfill its responsibilities.
The new law changes how Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Program funds can be
used, with an emphasis on providing
life-saving and life-extending services
for people living with HIV/AIDS across
this country. More money will be spent
on direct health care for Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program clients. Under the
new law, unless they receive a waiver,
grantees receiving funds under Parts A,
B, and C must spend at least 75 percent
of funds on ‘‘core medical services’’ and
can spend no more than 5 percent or 3
million dollars (whichever is smaller)
on clinical quality management. Under
Parts A–D, there is also a 10 percent
spending cap on grantee administration.
The forms would require grantees to
report on how funds are allocated and
spent on core and non-core services,
and on various program components,
such as administration, planning and
evaluation, and quality management.
The two forms are identical in the types
of information they collect. However,
the first report would track the
allocation of their award at the
beginning of their grant cycle and the
second report would track actual
expenditures (including carryover
dollars) at the end of their grant cycle.
The primary purposes of these forms
are to (1) provide information on the
number of grant dollars spent on various
services and program components, and
(2) oversee compliance with the intent
of congressional appropriations in a
timely manner. In addition to meeting
the goal of accountability to the
Congress, clients, advocacy groups, and
the general public, information
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Project
Title: Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) Demonstration and
Evaluation Project: 12-month Follow-up and Implementation Research Data
Collection.
OMB No.: New Collection.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, is conducting a demonstration and
evaluation called the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) project. SHM is
a test of marriage education demonstration programs in eight separate
locations that will aim to enroll up to 1,000 couples per location, up
to 500 couples participating in SHM programs and 500 control group
couples.
SHM is designed to inform program operators and policymakers of the
most effective ways to help low-income married couples strengthen and
maintain healthy marriages. In particular, the project will measure the
effectiveness of marriage education programs by randomly assigning
eligible volunteer couples to SHM program groups and control groups.
This data collection request includes three components. First, a
survey will be administered to couples 12 months after they are
enrolled in the program. The survey is designed to assess the effects
of the SHM program on marital status and stability, quality of
relationship with spouse, marital expectations and ideals, marital
satisfaction, participation in services, parenting outcomes, child
outcomes, parental well-being, employment, income, material hardship,
and social support characteristics of study participants assigned to
both the program and control groups. Second, survey data will be
complemented by videotaped observations of couple, co-parenting, and
parent-child interactions with a subset of intact and separated couples
at the 12-month follow-up. Third, qualitative data will be collected
through a process and implementation study in each of the eight SHM
demonstration programs across the country.
These data will complement the information gathered by the SHM
baseline data collection (OMB Control No. 0970-0299). The information
collected at the 12-month follow-up will allow the research team to
examine the effects of SHM services on outcomes of interest and to
identify mechanisms that might account for these effects. The process
and implementation research will consist of a qualitative component
that will help ACF to better understand the results from the impact
analysis as well as how to replicate programs that prove to be
successful.
Respondents: Low-income married couples with children.
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Annual Burden Estimates
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Annual number Number of Average burden Estimated
Instrument of responses per hours per annual burden
respondents respondent response hours
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12-month survey................................. 10,240 1 0.83 8,499.2
12-month observational study (intact couples)... 3,200 1 0.68 2,176
12-month observational study (separated couples) 160 1 0.17 27.2
12-month observational study (children of intact 1,600 1 0.33 528
couples).......................................
12-month observational study (children of 160 1 0.17 27.2
separated couples).............................
The process and implementation field research 504 1 1 504
guide..........................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,761.6.
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
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail
address: infocollection@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.
Dated: October 1, 2007
Brendan C. Kelly,
OPRE Reports, Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-4943 Filed 10-4-07; 8:45 am]
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