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of the information collection described
above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information and
submit comments by emailing
infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. Identify all
requests by the title of the information
collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The NHTTAC delivers
training and technical assistance (T/TA)
to inform and deliver a public health
response to trafficking. In applying a
public health approach, NHTTAC
holistically builds the capacity of
professionals, organizations, and
communities to identify and respond to
the complex needs of all individuals
who have experienced trafficking or
who have increased risk factors for
trafficking and address the root causes
that put individuals, families, and
communities at risk of trafficking. These
efforts ultimately help improve the
availability and delivery of coordinated
and trauma-informed services before,
during, and after an individual’s
trafficking exploitation, regardless of
their age, gender identity, sexual
orientation, race/ethnicity, nationality,
or type of exploitation experienced.
NHTTAC hosts a variety of services,
programs, and facilitated sessions to
improve service provision to people
who have experienced trafficking or
who have increased risk factors for
trafficking, including The Human
Trafficking Leadership Academy
(HTLA); SOAR (Stop, Observe, Ask, and
Respond) to Health and Wellness; OTIPfunded recipients; both short-term and
specialized T/TA requests; the NHTTAC
Customer Support; and information
through NHTTAC’s website, resources,
and materials about trafficking. This
information collection is intended to
collect feedback from participants to
assess a diverse range of T/TA provided
by NHTTAC.
Revisions have been made in order to:
• Respond to Postgraduate Institute for
Medicine accreditation requirements
through SOAR T/TA
• Reduce burden where applicable
• Provide flexibility for NHTTAC to
assess new knowledge gains,
application of skills/competencies,
and outcomes of participants who
received NHTTAC T/TA
• Understand NHTTAC’s progress on
improving diversity, equity, and
inclusion
Respondents: NHTTAC T/TA
participants include OTIP grant
recipients, individuals with lived
experience, professionals who interact
with and provide services to individuals
who have experienced trafficking,
including healthcare, behavioral health,
public health, and human service
practitioners, organizations, and
communities.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Annual
number of
respondents
Instrument
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Universal T/TA Participant Feedback-Long Version .......................................
Universal T/TA Participant Feedback-Short Version .......................................
Intensive T/TA Participant Feedback ..............................................................
Follow Up Feedback ........................................................................................
Qualitative Guide .............................................................................................
Network Survey ...............................................................................................
Client Satisfaction Survey ................................................................................
Resources Feedback .......................................................................................
Requester Feedback .......................................................................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 15,418.
Comments: 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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(Authority: 22 U.S.C. 7104 and 22 U.S.C.
7105(c)(4))
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Procedural Justice-Informed
Alternatives to Contempt
Demonstration (Office of Management
and Budget #0970–0505)
Office of Child Support
Enforcement, Administration for
Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
PO 00000
Request for public comments.
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of responses
per
respondent
1
1
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1
1
1
1
1
1
Average
burden hours
per response
0.43
0.10
1.17
0.50
1.50
1.00
0.08
0.08
0.12
Annual burden
hours
903
5,000
761
5,000
3,000
600
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The Office of Child Support
Enforcement (OCSE), Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), is proposing to add
additional data collection activities as
part of the rigorous evaluation of the
Procedural Justice-Informed
Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC)
Demonstration. The proposed revision
to conduct additional data collection is
part of a research supplement that
builds on the PJAC study to understand
the role of bias in child support program
enforcement actions.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of
publication. In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects
of the information collection described
above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information and
submit comments by emailing
infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. Identify all
SUMMARY:
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requests by the title of the information
collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: OCSE is proposing to
conduct additional data collection
activities as part of the PJAC
Demonstration. In September 2016,
OCSE issued grants to five state child
support agencies to provide alternative
approaches to the contempt process
with the goal of increasing noncustodial
parents’ compliance with child support
orders by building trust and confidence
in the child support agency and its
processes. OCSE also awarded a grant to
support a rigorous evaluation of PJAC.
The PJAC Demonstration is designed to
help grantees and OCSE to learn
whether incorporating principles of
procedural justice into child support
business practices increases reliable
child support payments, reduces
arrears, minimizes the need for
continued enforcement actions and
sanctions, and reduces the use of
contempt proceedings.
The PJAC demonstration will yield
information about the efficacy of
applying procedural justice principles
via a set of alternative services to the
current use of a civil contempt process
to address nonpayment of child support.
As a part of the evaluation, PJAC will
build evidence about disparity and bias
in the child support system, with a
focus on the use of enforcement actions
used to coerce child support payments.
The research will measure the extent to
which bias is embedded within child
support policies and practices. The
information gathered may help inform
future policy decisions to better
understand and reduce disparities
within the child support program.
The research will document
disparities and differences in treatment
by race and ethnicity, gender, and
income within the child support system
in up to three states participating in the
PJAC demonstration. Key elements of
the study include a quantitative analysis
of disparities in the initiation of a child
support case, setting of order amounts,
order modifications, and use of punitive
enforcement actions, including civil
contempt; semi-structured interviews
with staff from child support agencies
and selected partner organizations; and
separate semi-structured interviews
with study participants to learn about
their experiences with and perceptions
of bias in the child support process,
specifically in the use of enforcement
actions.
OCSE is proposing a to conduct
additional data collection activities as
part of the PJAC Demonstration, which
include the following: a topic guide for
interviews about experiences of bias
with noncustodial parents and a topic
guide for interviews about experiences
of bias with child support staff and
partners.
Data collection activities that were
previously approved by OMB, following
public comment, are the staff data entry
on participant baseline information,
study Management Information Systems
(MIS) to track receipt of services, staff
and community partner interview topic
guide, the noncustodial parent
participant interview protocol, the staff
survey, the staff time study, and the
custodial parent interview protocol.
These instruments are currently in use
and this request will extend approval to
continue data collection. Supporting
materials, including burden estimates
related to approved instruments, are
available at https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAICList?ref_nbr=2022020970-013. The following burden table
includes information for the proposed
new interviews.
Respondents: Respondents for the
new data collection instruments include
study participants and child support
program staff and partners at three of
the six PJAC demonstration sites.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Total number
of respondents
Instrument
lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1
Topic list for bias interviews with staff and partners ...........
Topic guide for bias interviews with noncustodial parents ..
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 75.
Comments: 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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Total number
of responses
per
respondent
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90
1
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(Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1315)
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Health Center Program
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
AGENCY:
Announcing Period of
Performance Extensions with Funding
for Health Center Program Award
Recipients in Lexington, Kentucky and
Worcester, Massachusetts.
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30
Additional grant funds were
provided to two Health Center Program
award recipients in Lexington,
Kentucky and Worcester, Massachusetts
with periods of performance ending in
fiscal year (FY) 2022 to extend their
periods of performance by up to 7
months to ensure the ongoing delivery
of services until a new award could be
made.
SUMMARY:
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
ACTION:
Average
burden hours
per response
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Recipients of the Award: HRSA has
provided additional grant funds to two
award recipients, as listed in Table 1, in
Lexington, Kentucky and Worcester,
Massachusetts, to ensure that
individuals in the service areas received
uninterrupted access to needed health
care services.
Amount of Non-Competitive Awards:
Two awards totaling $3,604,971.
Period of Supplemental Funding: FY
2022.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Procedural Justice-
Informed Alternatives to Contempt Demonstration (Office of Management
and Budget #0970-0505)
AGENCY: Office of Child Support Enforcement, Administration for
Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), Administration
for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), is proposing to add additional data collection
activities as part of the rigorous evaluation of the Procedural
Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) Demonstration. The
proposed revision to conduct additional data collection is part of a
research supplement that builds on the PJAC study to understand the
role of bias in child support program enforcement actions.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with
the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is
soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information
collection described above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of
information and submit comments by emailing [email protected].
Identify all
[[Page 55822]]
requests by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: OCSE is proposing to conduct additional data
collection activities as part of the PJAC Demonstration. In September
2016, OCSE issued grants to five state child support agencies to
provide alternative approaches to the contempt process with the goal of
increasing noncustodial parents' compliance with child support orders
by building trust and confidence in the child support agency and its
processes. OCSE also awarded a grant to support a rigorous evaluation
of PJAC. The PJAC Demonstration is designed to help grantees and OCSE
to learn whether incorporating principles of procedural justice into
child support business practices increases reliable child support
payments, reduces arrears, minimizes the need for continued enforcement
actions and sanctions, and reduces the use of contempt proceedings.
The PJAC demonstration will yield information about the efficacy of
applying procedural justice principles via a set of alternative
services to the current use of a civil contempt process to address
nonpayment of child support. As a part of the evaluation, PJAC will
build evidence about disparity and bias in the child support system,
with a focus on the use of enforcement actions used to coerce child
support payments. The research will measure the extent to which bias is
embedded within child support policies and practices. The information
gathered may help inform future policy decisions to better understand
and reduce disparities within the child support program.
The research will document disparities and differences in treatment
by race and ethnicity, gender, and income within the child support
system in up to three states participating in the PJAC demonstration.
Key elements of the study include a quantitative analysis of
disparities in the initiation of a child support case, setting of order
amounts, order modifications, and use of punitive enforcement actions,
including civil contempt; semi-structured interviews with staff from
child support agencies and selected partner organizations; and separate
semi-structured interviews with study participants to learn about their
experiences with and perceptions of bias in the child support process,
specifically in the use of enforcement actions.
OCSE is proposing a to conduct additional data collection
activities as part of the PJAC Demonstration, which include the
following: a topic guide for interviews about experiences of bias with
noncustodial parents and a topic guide for interviews about experiences
of bias with child support staff and partners.
Data collection activities that were previously approved by OMB,
following public comment, are the staff data entry on participant
baseline information, study Management Information Systems (MIS) to
track receipt of services, staff and community partner interview topic
guide, the noncustodial parent participant interview protocol, the
staff survey, the staff time study, and the custodial parent interview
protocol. These instruments are currently in use and this request will
extend approval to continue data collection. Supporting materials,
including burden estimates related to approved instruments, are
available at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAICList?ref_nbr=202202-0970-013. The following burden table includes
information for the proposed new interviews.
Respondents: Respondents for the new data collection instruments
include study participants and child support program staff and partners
at three of the six PJAC demonstration sites.
Annual Burden Estimates
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total number Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses hours per Total burden Annual burden
of respondents per respondent response hours hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Topic list for bias interviews 90 1 1.5 135 45
with staff and partners........
Topic guide for bias interviews 90 1 1 90 30
with noncustodial parents......
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 75.
Comments: 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.
(Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1315)
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-19555 Filed 9-9-22; 8:45 am]
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