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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Formative Evaluation of Family
Unification Program (FUP) Vouchers
for Youth Transitioning Out of Foster
Care (New Collection)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation; Administration for
Children and Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation is
requesting public comment on data
collection activities as part of the
Formative Evaluation of Family
Unification Program (FUP) Vouchers for
Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care.
The purpose of the request is to conduct
information collection activities,
including an online survey, interviews,
and focus group discussions.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of
publication. OMB is required to make a
decision concerning the collection of
information between 30 and 60 days
after publication of this document in the
Federal Register. Therefore, a comment
is best assured of having its full effect
if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork
Reduction Project, Email: OIRA_
SUBMISSION@OMB.EOP.GOV, Attn:
Desk Officer for the Administration for
Children and Families.
Copies of the proposed collection may
be obtained by emailing
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
Alternatively, copies can also be
obtained by writing to the
SUMMARY:
Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW,
Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE
Reports Clearance Officer. All requests,
emailed or written, should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The ACF Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation is
proposing a new information collection.
The information collection activities are
part of the Formative Evaluation of
Family Unification Program (FUP)
Vouchers for Youth Transitioning Out of
Foster Care. The purpose of the request
is to conduct information collection
activities, which consist of an online
survey of FUP liaisons from agencies
and organizations serving transition-age
youth in foster care and site visits to
selected agencies and organizations that
have allocated a significant number of
FUP vouchers to youth. During site
visits, staff from the Urban Institute and
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
will interview agency and program
leaders, frontline staff, and participants.
The information collection also includes
collection of administrative data from
sites selected for visits. This descriptive
work will capture how FUP for youth
has been administered on the ground,
how eligible youth are identified and
referred by the public child welfare
agency (PCWA), barriers to obtaining a
voucher or leasing-up into housing,
what public housing authorities (PHAs)
and public child welfare agencies have
done to streamline the application
process, and other aspects of program
operations. The activities and products
from this project will help ACF to fulfill
its ongoing legislative mandate for
program evaluation specified in the
Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.
Respondents: PCWA and PHA agency
administrators, program managers/FUP
liaisons, front-line staff, and young
adults being served by FUP.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Total
number of
respondents
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Instrument
PHA survey ..........................................................................
PCWA survey .......................................................................
CoC survey ..........................................................................
Interview guide for FSS manager ........................................
Interview guide for CoC lead organization administrator
and FUP liaison ................................................................
Focus group guide for PHA intake workers and case managers .................................................................................
Focus group guide for PCWA caseworkers, referring partners, and service provider partners .................................
Interview guide for service provider FUP leads ..................
Interview guide for PCWA administrator and FUP liaison ..
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Annual
number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden hours
per response
Annual
burden
hours
111
72
99
8
56
36
50
4
1
1
1
1
0.58
0.58
0.58
1
32
21
29
4
16
8
1
1
8
192
96
1
1.5
144
312
7
16
156
4
8
1
1
1
1.5
1
1
234
4
8
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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES—Continued
Total
number of
respondents
Instrument
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden hours
per response
Annual
burden
hours
Interview guide for PHA administrator and FUP liaison ......
Focus group guide for youth ................................................
Administrative data list .........................................................
16
96
24
8
48
12
1
1
1
1
1.5
5
8
72
60
Total ..............................................................................
........................
........................
........................
........................
624
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 624.
Authority: Title IV–E of the Social Security
Act, IV–E § 477(g)(1–2), as amended by the
Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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Notice for Public Comment on
Administration for Native Americans’
Program Policies Relating to the Native
American Language Preservation and
Maintenance—Esther Martinez
Immersion Funding Opportunity
Administration for Native
Americans (ANA), Administration for
Children and Families (ACF),
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice for public comment.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to Section 814 of the
Native American Programs Act of 1974
(NAPA), as amended, the ANA is
required to provide members of the
public an opportunity to comment on
proposed changes in interpretive rules
and general statements of policy and to
give notice of the proposed changes no
less than 30 days before such changes
become effective. In accordance with
the notice requirements of NAPA, ANA
herein describes proposed general
statements of policy that relate to the
Native American Language Preservation
and Maintenance—Esther Martinez
Immersion (EMI) funding opportunity
announcement (FOA) in fiscal year (FY)
2020.
DATES: Comments are due by March 9,
2020. If ANA does not receive any
significant comments on the statements
of policy within the 30-day comment
period, ANA will proceed with the
proposed changes in the published
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FOA. The FOA will serve as the final
notice of these proposed changes.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted to Carmelia Strickland,
Director of Program Operations,
Administration for Native Americans,
330 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20201
or via email: ANAComments@
acf.hhs.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carmelia Strickland, Director, Division
of Program Operations, Administration
for Native Americans, 330 C Street SW,
Washington, DC 20201. Telephone:
(877) 922–9262; Email:
ANAComments@acf.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
814 of NAPA, as amended, (42 U.S.C.
2992b–1) incorporates provisions of the
Administrative Procedure Act that
require ANA to provide notice of its
proposed interpretive rules and
statements of policy and to seek public
comment on such proposals. ANA
voluntarily provides notices of its rules
of practice and procedure in an effort to
be transparent. ANA published a notice
in the Federal Register on December 27,
2019, located at 84 FR 71428, pages
71428–71430, that lays out changes
ANA intends to implement in its FOAs
for FY 2020. This notice provides
information on additional changes that
will be implemented in the FY 2020
EMI FOA.
ANA’s past FOAs can be accessed at
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/
foa/office/ana or https://
www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/.
Synopses and application forms will be
available on https://www.grants.gov.
1. On December 20, 2019, President
Trump signed into law the Esther
Martinez Native American Languages
Programs Reauthorization Act
(Reauthorization Act). The statute
amended NAPA to allow ANA to set the
project period of EMI grants to up to 60
months. Because of the complexity of
language grants that provide immersion
instruction and because Native
American communities are most
knowledgeable about their language
programs and the length of time
necessary to implement them, ANA has
determined to use this new authority to
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give tribes maximum flexibility on the
length of their grant and allow the
project period for the FY 2020 EMI
grants to be up to 60 months.
Previously, awards were limited to a 36month project period. FY 2020 awards
will be made for a project period of 36
months, 48 months, or 60 months. An
initial award will be for a 12-month
budget period. Non-competing
continuation (NCC) awards will be
awarded on the basis of annual NCC
applications, availability of funds,
satisfactory progress, on-time
completion of grant reporting
requirements, and a determination that
continued funding would be in the best
interest of the government.
2. ANA had intended to accept
applications for the EMI grants for 90
days, in-line with its other grants.
However, because ANA is making
additional changes to the EMI grant to
implement the Reauthorization Act,
ANA will reduce the period for
accepting applications in order to issue
the EMI awards in a timely manner. The
EMI FOA, HHS–2018–ACF–ANA–NB–
1343, will accept applications for 60
days from the date it is published on
Grants.gov.
3. ANA plans to change the order of
the publication of the FOAs. In the
Notice of Public Comment published on
December 27, 2019, 84 FR 71428, pages
71428–71430, Supplementary
Information, ANA stated that it planned
to publish the FOAs for the EMI, Native
American Language Preservation and
Maintenance (P&M), and Environmental
Regulatory Enhancement (ERE) grants
first and then allow a 2-week period
before the Social and Economic
Development Strategies (SEDS) and
Social and Economic Development
Strategies-Alaska (SEDS–AK) FOAs
were published. However, because of
the changes to the EMI grant described
above, ANA will need additional time to
publish the EMI FOA. In order to
continue to stagger the submission
deadlines, ANA has decided it will
publish the P&M, ERE, and SEDS–AK
FOAs first and then allow a 2-week
period before the SEDS and EMI FOAs
are published. As this is a change in
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Formative Evaluation of Family
Unification Program (FUP) Vouchers for Youth Transitioning Out of
Foster Care (New Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; Administration
for Children and Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation is requesting public comment on data
collection activities as part of the Formative Evaluation of Family
Unification Program (FUP) Vouchers for Youth Transitioning Out of
Foster Care. The purpose of the request is to conduct information
collection activities, including an online survey, interviews, and
focus group discussions.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB is required to
make a decision concerning the collection of information between 30 and
60 days after publication of this document in the Federal Register.
Therefore, a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB
receives it within 30 days of publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Email:
[email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration
for Children and Families.
Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained by emailing
[email protected]. Alternatively, copies can also be
obtained 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. All
requests, emailed or written, should be identified by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Description: The ACF Office of Planning,
Research, and Evaluation is proposing a new information collection. The
information collection activities are part of the Formative Evaluation
of Family Unification Program (FUP) Vouchers for Youth Transitioning
Out of Foster Care. The purpose of the request is to conduct
information collection activities, which consist of an online survey of
FUP liaisons from agencies and organizations serving transition-age
youth in foster care and site visits to selected agencies and
organizations that have allocated a significant number of FUP vouchers
to youth. During site visits, staff from the Urban Institute and Chapin
Hall at the University of Chicago will interview agency and program
leaders, frontline staff, and participants. The information collection
also includes collection of administrative data from sites selected for
visits. This descriptive work will capture how FUP for youth has been
administered on the ground, how eligible youth are identified and
referred by the public child welfare agency (PCWA), barriers to
obtaining a voucher or leasing-up into housing, what public housing
authorities (PHAs) and public child welfare agencies have done to
streamline the application process, and other aspects of program
operations. The activities and products from this project will help ACF
to fulfill its ongoing legislative mandate for program evaluation
specified in the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.
Respondents: PCWA and PHA agency administrators, program managers/
FUP liaisons, front-line staff, and young adults being served by FUP.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Total number Annual number Number of Average
Instrument of of responses per burden hours Annual burden
respondents respondents respondent per response hours
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PHA survey...................... 111 56 1 0.58 32
PCWA survey..................... 72 36 1 0.58 21
CoC survey...................... 99 50 1 0.58 29
Interview guide for FSS manager. 8 4 1 1 4
Interview guide for CoC lead 16 8 1 1 8
organization administrator and
FUP liaison....................
Focus group guide for PHA intake 192 96 1 1.5 144
workers and case managers......
Focus group guide for PCWA 312 156 1 1.5 234
caseworkers, referring
partners, and service provider
partners.......................
Interview guide for service 7 4 1 1 4
provider FUP leads.............
Interview guide for PCWA 16 8 1 1 8
administrator and FUP liaison..
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Interview guide for PHA 16 8 1 1 8
administrator and FUP liaison..
Focus group guide for youth..... 96 48 1 1.5 72
Administrative data list........ 24 12 1 5 60
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Total....................... .............. .............. .............. .............. 624
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 624.
Authority: Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, IV-E Sec.
477(g)(1-2), as amended by the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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