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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review; Data
Collection for the Engaging Fathers
and Paternal Relatives: A Continuous
Quality Improvement Approach in the
Child Welfare System Project (New
Collection)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
The Office of Planning,
Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within
the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) is proposing to conduct
data collection activities for the
Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives:
A Continuous Quality Improvement
Approach in the Child Welfare System
(FCL) Project. This evaluation is a
descriptive study of child welfare
agencies’ use of a continuous quality
improvement process called the
Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC)
to implement strategies to improve
father and paternal relative engagement
in the child welfare system. The project
is designed to examine the use of the
BSC methodology to strengthen fathers’
and paternal relatives’ engagement with
children involved in child welfare and
to add to the evidence base on
engagement strategies for fathers and
paternal relatives in child welfare.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of
publication. OMB must make a decision
about the collection of information
SUMMARY:
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.
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 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The FCL evaluation has
three equally important aims. The first
is to describe promising strategies and
approaches for engaging fathers and
paternal relatives in the child welfare
system. The second is to assess the
promise of the BSC as a continuous
quality improvement framework for
addressing challenges in the child
welfare system, including whether and
to what extent the BSC has potential,
and if so, how it may be applied to other
child welfare challenges. The third is to
assess the extent to which agencies
experienced a shift in organizational
culture in terms of the importance of
father engagement.
The descriptive evaluation will build
on the findings of the pilot study
conducted under the umbrella generic:
Formative Data Collections for ACF
Program Support (OMB #0970–0531).
(Site selection for the pilot study was
conducted under the umbrella generic:
Formative Data Collections for ACF
ADDRESSES:
Research (OMB #0970–0356). It will
focus on organizational changes and
network supports for father and paternal
relative engagement, changes in staff
attitudes and skills for engaging fathers
and paternal relatives, and father and
paternal relative engagement outcomes.
This evaluation will explore the
implementation of father and paternal
relative engagement strategies and
approaches by examining process
outcomes. By examining process
outcomes, the evaluation is designed to
indicate whether strategies and
approaches developed in the BSC are
likely to lead to placement stability and
permanency outcomes.
Data collection will take place with
stakeholders in five child welfare
agencies implementing the BSC
(including one agency that had two
separate teams participate in the earlier
pilot study). Data collection activities
include discussions with participating
agency staff and key partners during site
visits, focus groups or interviews with
fathers and paternal relatives with
relatively recent experience with the
focal child welfare agencies, and web
surveys of participating agency staff.
Respondents: Child welfare agency
leaders, child welfare agency program
staff and key partner staff involved in
implementing the engagement
strategies; community stakeholders
whose role has intersected with the
child welfare agency and who have an
interest in father and paternal relative
engagement; and, father and paternal
relative clients of the agencies. Program
staff may include senior leaders,
managers, and frontline staff.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents
(total over
request
period)
Instrument
Interview topic guide ............................................................
Father and paternal relative focus group protocol ..............
Staff survey ..........................................................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 347.
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Number of
responses per
respondent
(total over
request
period)
230
72
360
Avg. burden
per response
(in hours)
1
1
2
1.5
1.5
0.333
Sec. 403. [42 U.S.C. 603] and Sec. 426.
[42 U.S.C. 626]
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021–17263 Filed 8–11–21; 8:45 am]
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173
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120
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Data Collection for the Engaging
Fathers and Paternal Relatives: A Continuous Quality Improvement
Approach in the Child Welfare System Project (New Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within
the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is proposing to
conduct data collection activities for the Engaging Fathers and
Paternal Relatives: A Continuous Quality Improvement Approach in the
Child Welfare System (FCL) Project. This evaluation is a descriptive
study of child welfare agencies' use of a continuous quality
improvement process called the Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC)
to implement strategies to improve father and paternal relative
engagement in the child welfare system. The project is designed to
examine the use of the BSC methodology to strengthen fathers' and
paternal relatives' engagement with children involved in child welfare
and to add to the evidence base on engagement strategies for fathers
and paternal relatives in child welfare.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a
decision about 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 within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The FCL evaluation has three equally important aims.
The first is to describe promising strategies and approaches for
engaging fathers and paternal relatives in the child welfare system.
The second is to assess the promise of the BSC as a continuous quality
improvement framework for addressing challenges in the child welfare
system, including whether and to what extent the BSC has potential, and
if so, how it may be applied to other child welfare challenges. The
third is to assess the extent to which agencies experienced a shift in
organizational culture in terms of the importance of father engagement.
The descriptive evaluation will build on the findings of the pilot
study conducted under the umbrella generic: Formative Data Collections
for ACF Program Support (OMB #0970-0531). (Site selection for the pilot
study was conducted under the umbrella generic: Formative Data
Collections for ACF Research (OMB #0970-0356). It will focus on
organizational changes and network supports for father and paternal
relative engagement, changes in staff attitudes and skills for engaging
fathers and paternal relatives, and father and paternal relative
engagement outcomes. This evaluation will explore the implementation of
father and paternal relative engagement strategies and approaches by
examining process outcomes. By examining process outcomes, the
evaluation is designed to indicate whether strategies and approaches
developed in the BSC are likely to lead to placement stability and
permanency outcomes.
Data collection will take place with stakeholders in five child
welfare agencies implementing the BSC (including one agency that had
two separate teams participate in the earlier pilot study). Data
collection activities include discussions with participating agency
staff and key partners during site visits, focus groups or interviews
with fathers and paternal relatives with relatively recent experience
with the focal child welfare agencies, and web surveys of participating
agency staff.
Respondents: Child welfare agency leaders, child welfare agency
program staff and key partner staff involved in implementing the
engagement strategies; community stakeholders whose role has
intersected with the child welfare agency and who have an interest in
father and paternal relative engagement; and, father and paternal
relative clients of the agencies. Program staff may include senior
leaders, managers, and frontline staff.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per
respondents respondent Avg. burden Total burden Annual burden
Instrument (total over (total over per response (in hours) (in hours)
request request (in hours)
period) period)
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Interview topic guide................................................... 230 1 1.5 345 173
Father and paternal relative focus group protocol....................... 72 1 1.5 108 54
Staff survey............................................................ 360 2 0.333 240 120
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 347.
Authority:
Sec. 403. [42 U.S.C. 603] and Sec. 426. [42 U.S.C. 626]
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-17263 Filed 8-11-21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-73-P
