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document procedures as well as
challenges faced and lessons learned to
inform the field of practice as well as
policy makers, program administrators,
and funders at various levels.
The proposed information collection
activities consist of semi-structured
interviews and surveys conducted at 28
child welfare agency sites. Focus groups
conducted at 8 of the 28 sites will gather
information on needs, challenges, and
strategies to support children with
prenatal substance exposures and their
families within the child welfare
system.
Respondents: State and child welfare
agency directors, child welfare staff and
supervisors; agency partners and service
providers; and family members and
caregivers of children who may have
been prenatally exposed to substances.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents
Instrument
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden hours
per tresponse
Total burden
hours
28
28
15
14
14
32
140
90
50
12
6
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1.25
1
1
1.5
.5
.5
.5
.5
1.5
28
28
19
14
14
48
70
45
25
6
9
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours .....................................................
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Interview Protocol for Local Agency Staff—Frontline Only .............................
Interview Protocol for Local Agency Staff—Ongoing Only ..............................
Interview Protocol for Local Agency Staff—Frontline and Ongoing ................
Interview Protocol for Local Agency Medical Staff ..........................................
Interview Protocol for Local Agency Director ..................................................
Focus Group of Caregivers .............................................................................
Survey Instrument for Local Agency Staff—Form A General .........................
Survey Instrument for Local Agency—Form B General ..................................
Survey Instrument for Local Agency Form B Differential Response ..............
Survey Instrument for Service Providers .........................................................
Interview Protocol for Data Staff ......................................................................
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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: ACF
Reports Clearance Officer. Email
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
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comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Mary Jones,
ACF/OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017–22716 Filed 10–19–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Title: Head Start Child and Family
Experiences Survey (FACES).
OMB No.: 0970–0151.
Description: The Office of Planning,
Research and Evaluation (OPRE),
Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), is
proposing to collect data for a new
round of the Head Start Family and
Child Experiences Survey (FACES).
Featuring a ‘‘Modified Core Plus’’ Study
design, FACES 2019 will provide data
on a set of key indicators in Head Start
Regions I–XI. While data collection for
FACES 2019 will occur in Regions I–XI,
there is a slightly different sample
design and recruitment strategy for
Regions I–X and Region XI (whose
grants are awarded to tribal
governments or consortiums of tribes).
In fall 2019 and spring 2020, FACES
will assess the school readiness skills of
2,400 Head Start children in Regions I–
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X and 800 children in Region XI, survey
their parents, and ask their Head Start
teachers to rate children’s social and
emotional skills. This sample will be
drawn from 60 programs in Regions I–
X and 22 programs in Region XI. In
spring 2020 classroom observations of
sampled programs will occur. In
Regions I–X, the number of programs
will increase from the 60 that are used
to collect data on children’s school
readiness outcomes to 180 for the
purpose of conducting observations in
720 Head Start classrooms. In Region XI,
the program sample will remain at 22,
and approximately 80 Head Start
classroom observations will take place.
Program director, center director, and
teacher surveys will also be conducted
in spring 2020 in Regions I–XI. In spring
2022, program level data collection will
be repeated in Regions I–X only. If any
plus studies are conducted, they will be
conducted within the Core sample.
This notice is specific to the data
collection activities needed to recruit
Head Start programs and centers into
FACES 2019. A future notice will
provide information about data
collection for the study. A nationally
representative sample of Head Start
programs and centers from Regions I–X
and a representative sample of Head
Start programs and centers from Region
XI will be selected to participate in
FACES 2019. From Regions I–X, the
programs participating in the Core
child-level data collection will be
contacted and recruited for the study in
spring 2019. In fall 2019, the remaining
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programs participating in classroomlevel data collection will be contacted.
All programs will be contacted a second
time in fall 2021 to confirm their
continued participation in the Core
spring 2022 data collection. The
programs from Region XI would be
recruited a year earlier (i.e., spring 2018)
given the increased amount of time to
recruit programs in tribal communities
and to obtain tribal council and/or tribal
leadership approval.
The method of data collection for
recruitment of all programs will include
telephone conversations with program
directors and on-site coordinators who
serve as liaisons between the FACES
study team and the Head Start centers.
In Region XI, an additional recruitment
telephone call with tribal leadership/
tribal council will be required. All of
these calls will inform program staff
about the purpose of the study and will
gather lists of centers in each program
in order to compile the center sampling
frame. The purpose of this data
collection is to support the 2007
reauthorization of the Head Start
program (Pub. L.110–134), which calls
for periodic assessments of Head Start’s
quality and effectiveness.
Respondents: Head Start Program
Directors and Staff, as well as tribal
leadership.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Total number
of respondents
Instrument
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Telephone script and recruitment information collection for
program directors, Regions I–X .......................................
Telephone script and recruitment information collection for
program directors, Region XI ...........................................
Telephone script and recruitment information collection for
on-site coordinators, Regions I–X ....................................
Telephone script and recruitment information collection for
on-site coordinators, Regions XI ......................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 439.
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
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Annual
number of
respondents
Annual burden
hours
77
3
1
231
30
10
2
1
20
230
77
3
.75
173
30
10
2
.75
15
Mary Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017–22713 Filed 10–19–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Title: Pre-testing of Evaluation Data
Collection Activities.
OMB No.: 0970–0355.
Description: The Office of Planning,
Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), in the
Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS)
intends to request approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to renew a generic clearance to
pre-test data collection instruments with
more than nine participants to identify
and resolve any question or procedural
problems in survey administration.
OPRE studies ACF programs, and the
populations they serve, through rigorous
research and evaluation projects. These
include evaluations of existing
programs, evaluations of innovative
approaches to helping low-income
children and families, research
syntheses and descriptive and
exploratory studies. To improve the
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development of its research and
evaluation surveys, OPRE uses the pretesting of evaluation surveys generic
clearance to employ a variety of
techniques including cognitive and
usability laboratory and field
techniques, behavior coding,
exploratory interviews, respondent
debriefing questionnaires, split sample
experiments, focus groups, and pilot
studies/pre-tests. These activities allow
OPRE to identify if and when a survey
may be simplified for respondents,
respondent burden may be reduced, and
other possible improvements.
Following standard OMB
requirements, OPRE will submit a
change request for each individual data
collection activity under this generic
clearance. Each request will include the
individual instrument(s), a justification
specific to the individual information
collection, and any supplementary
documents. OMB should review within
10 days of receiving each change
request.
The information collected in this
effort will not be the primary subject of
any published ACF reports; however,
information may be made public
through methodological appendices or
footnotes, reports on instrument
development, instrument user guides,
descriptions of respondent behavior,
and other publications or presentations
describing findings of methodological
interest. When necessary, results will be
labeled as exploratory in nature. The
results of this pre-testing research may
be prepared for presentation at
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Title: Head Start Child and Family Experiences Survey (FACES).
OMB No.: 0970-0151.
Description: The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
(OPRE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing to collect data for a
new round of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey
(FACES). Featuring a ``Modified Core Plus'' Study design, FACES 2019
will provide data on a set of key indicators in Head Start Regions I-
XI. While data collection for FACES 2019 will occur in Regions I-XI,
there is a slightly different sample design and recruitment strategy
for Regions I-X and Region XI (whose grants are awarded to tribal
governments or consortiums of tribes). In fall 2019 and spring 2020,
FACES will assess the school readiness skills of 2,400 Head Start
children in Regions I-X and 800 children in Region XI, survey their
parents, and ask their Head Start teachers to rate children's social
and emotional skills. This sample will be drawn from 60 programs in
Regions I-X and 22 programs in Region XI. In spring 2020 classroom
observations of sampled programs will occur. In Regions I-X, the number
of programs will increase from the 60 that are used to collect data on
children's school readiness outcomes to 180 for the purpose of
conducting observations in 720 Head Start classrooms. In Region XI, the
program sample will remain at 22, and approximately 80 Head Start
classroom observations will take place. Program director, center
director, and teacher surveys will also be conducted in spring 2020 in
Regions I-XI. In spring 2022, program level data collection will be
repeated in Regions I-X only. If any plus studies are conducted, they
will be conducted within the Core sample.
This notice is specific to the data collection activities needed to
recruit Head Start programs and centers into FACES 2019. A future
notice will provide information about data collection for the study. A
nationally representative sample of Head Start programs and centers
from Regions I-X and a representative sample of Head Start programs and
centers from Region XI will be selected to participate in FACES 2019.
From Regions I-X, the programs participating in the Core child-level
data collection will be contacted and recruited for the study in spring
2019. In fall 2019, the remaining
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programs participating in classroom-level data collection will be
contacted. All programs will be contacted a second time in fall 2021 to
confirm their continued participation in the Core spring 2022 data
collection. The programs from Region XI would be recruited a year
earlier (i.e., spring 2018) given the increased amount of time to
recruit programs in tribal communities and to obtain tribal council
and/or tribal leadership approval.
The method of data collection for recruitment of all programs will
include telephone conversations with program directors and on-site
coordinators who serve as liaisons between the FACES study team and the
Head Start centers. In Region XI, an additional recruitment telephone
call with tribal leadership/tribal council will be required. All of
these calls will inform program staff about the purpose of the study
and will gather lists of centers in each program in order to compile
the center sampling frame. The purpose of this data collection is to
support the 2007 reauthorization of the Head Start program (Pub. L.110-
134), which calls for periodic assessments of Head Start's quality and
effectiveness.
Respondents: Head Start Program Directors and Staff, as well as
tribal leadership.
Annual Burden Estimates
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average burden
Instrument Total number Annual number responses per hours per Annual burden
of respondents of respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Telephone script and recruitment 230 77 3 1 231
information collection for
program directors, Regions I-X.
Telephone script and recruitment 30 10 2 1 20
information collection for
program directors, Region XI...
Telephone script and recruitment 230 77 3 .75 173
information collection for on-
site coordinators, Regions I-X.
Telephone script and recruitment 30 10 2 .75 15
information collection for on-
site coordinators, Regions XI..
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 439.
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. 2017-22713 Filed 10-19-17; 8:45 am]
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