Request for Public Comment; National Human Trafficking Prevention Framework, 35881-35882 [2023-11605]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
35881
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 105 / Thursday, June 1, 2023 / Notices
The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) within the
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services seeks an update to the existing
data collection for the Annual Survey of
Refugees. The Annual Survey of
Refugees is a yearly sample survey of
refugee households entering the U.S. in
the previous 5 fiscal years. The
requested update is based upon results
of a multi-year effort in instrument
redesign and field testing. ACF
estimates the proposed changes will
increase response burden from 48 to 50
minutes per respondent.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of
publication. In compliance with the
SUMMARY:
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
requests by the title of the information
collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: Data from the Annual
Survey of Refugees are used to meet the
Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR)
Congressional reporting requirements,
as set forth in the Refugee Act of 1980
(section 413(a) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act). ORR makes survey
findings available to the general public
and uses findings for the purposes of
program planning, policy-making, and
budgeting. The requested update reflects
changes to the survey instrument to:
enhance ORR’s understanding of
refugees’ resettlement experiences;
streamline the collection of householdlevel information; and improve data
reliability and validity.
Respondents: The Annual Survey of
Refugees secures a nationally
representative sample of refugee
households arriving in the U.S. in the
previous 5 fiscal years.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Total
number of
respondents
Instrument
Average
burden hours
per response
Total burden
hours
Annual burden
hours
Introduction Letter and Postcard .........................................
ORR–9 Annual Survey of Refugees ....................................
4,500
4,500
1
1
.05
.80
225
3,600
75
1,200
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours .........................
........................
........................
........................
........................
1,275
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: Sec. 413. [8 U.S.C. 1523]
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Request for public comments.
This notice informs the public
of the opportunity to provide input on
the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services’ (HHS) National
Human Trafficking Prevention
Framework (Framework), which
contains strategies and approaches to
prevent human trafficking and its
recurrence while increasing capacity to
identify and reduce harm caused by
human trafficking. HHS will consider
this input as it updates the Framework.
The draft Framework is available at
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip.
SUMMARY:
Submissions must be received by
5 p.m. EDT on June 9, 2023.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Request for Public Comment; National
Human Trafficking Prevention
Framework
Office on Trafficking in
Persons, Administration for Children
AGENCY:
17:37 May 31, 2023
ACTION:
Please submit all responses
via email to EndTrafficking@acf.hhs.gov
with ‘‘Public Comment: Prevention
Framework’’ in the subject. Submissions
can include attachments of or links to
any supporting documentation. Please
provide your contact information for
possible follow-up from the Office on
Trafficking in Persons.
BILLING CODE 4184–46–P
VerDate Sep<11>2014
and Families, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services.
ADDRESSES:
[FR Doc. 2023–11629 Filed 5–31–23; 8:45 am]
ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1
Total
number of
responses per
respondent
Jkt 259001
Kimberly Casey, Communications and
Prevention Specialist, Office on
Trafficking in Persons, Email:
Kimberly.Casey@acf.hhs.gov, Phone:
202–594–7026.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
PO 00000
Frm 00057
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
Background
The International Labor Organization
estimates 27.6 million people were
experiencing forced labor and/or
commercial sexual exploitation globally
on any given day in 2021. The global
prevalence of human trafficking
increased from 3.4 to 3.5 per thousand
people between 2016 and 2021, driven
entirely by the private economy.
Although there is still no rigorous
prevalence estimate of human
trafficking within the United States,
cases of human trafficking have been
reported in all 50 states and the District
of Columbia, on tribal land, and within
U.S. territories.
Human trafficking is a public health
issue and crime with adverse physical
and mental health, developmental,
financial, and social effects, which often
reach beyond the individual directly
impacted to affect families,
communities, industries, and society at
large. In response to the U.S.
Government’s recognition that human
trafficking is both a transnational and
national issue of significant concern, the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
2000 (TVPA) and its subsequent
reauthorizations created a three-pronged
(‘‘3P’’) federal framework to address
human trafficking—prevention,
protection, and prosecution. A fourth
‘‘P’’—for partnership—serves as a
complementary means to achieve
progress across the 3Ps and engage
multiple sectors of society in the work
E:\FR\FM\01JNN1.SGM
01JNN1
35882
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 105 / Thursday, June 1, 2023 / Notices
ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1
to address human trafficking. Steady
progress has been made since the TVPA
was first authorized; however, efforts to
assemble a focused array of prevention
strategies addressing both victimization
and perpetration, while essential, are
largely absent.
Establishing the Prevention Framework
HHS plays a critical role in the U.S.
Government’s efforts to prevent and
respond to human trafficking. The HHS
Task Force to Prevent Human
Trafficking, comprised of 21 divisions
and offices across HHS, helps
implement HHS’s priority actions in the
National Action Plan to Combat Human
Trafficking and related national
strategies. The Framework contributes
to the implementation of National
Action Plan Priority Action 1.1.2 to
increase the scale and quality of human
trafficking prevention efforts utilizing a
collective impact strategy.
The Framework is informed by a
public health approach to violence
prevention, recognizing human
trafficking is not an isolated incident
but a widespread issue impacting the
health and well-being of individuals,
families, and communities across
generations. Human trafficking is a
dynamic form of violence, shifting and
adapting as traffickers refine
recruitment schemes, methods of
control, and modes of exploitation. As
understanding and knowledge of human
trafficking grow, strategies to address it
must evolve as well. Treating human
trafficking as a public health concern
grants a renewed sense of urgency and
fundamentally alters how collaborators
prevent and respond to it.
A public health approach to human
trafficking is proactive rather than
reactionary, moving upstream to
identify prevention measures that,
combined with downstream
interventions, can decrease the number
of people who experience trafficking.
Focusing on three levels of prevention—
primary, secondary, and tertiary—a
public health approach seeks to stop
human trafficking before it occurs,
reduce its impact or duration, mitigate
lasting effects, and prevent it from
recurring.
The Framework harnesses established
concepts of violence prevention to
strengthen efforts to prevent human
trafficking, outlining strategies and
approaches that diverse sectors of
society can use to prevent human
trafficking and its recurrence while
increasing their capacity to identify and
reduce harm caused by human
trafficking. The Framework encourages
collaboration, coordination, and
integration to enhance human
VerDate Sep<11>2014
17:37 May 31, 2023
Jkt 259001
trafficking prevention, inviting
partnerships with federal, state, tribal,
territorial, and local governments;
business, industry, and other private
sector entities; nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations; educational
institutions; and philanthropic, faithbased, and research organizations; and
more. Through this collective effort,
HHS and its partners will be prepared
to test and scale solutions that will
prevent human trafficking and improve
the lives of people affected by human
trafficking across the United States.
Comments: HHS is seeking public
feedback on the Framework, including
comments on understandability and
suggested changes. HHS will use
comments to make updates to the
Framework as needed.
Dated: May 25, 2023.
Linda Hitt,
Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023–11605 Filed 5–31–23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184–48–P
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Administration for Children
and Families Generic for Information
Collections Related to Gatherings
(New Collection)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, United States
Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services intends to request approval
from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for a generic clearance to
request information from potential
participants at ACF gatherings, such as
meetings or conferences. The planning
for these gatherings is most often on a
quick timeline and the standard
timeline to comply with a full request
under the Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA) would inhibit the ability to
collect information to inform these
activities. Therefore, an umbrella
generic is requested to allow for quick
turnaround requests for similar
information collections related to these
activities.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of
publication. In compliance with the
requirements of the PRA, ACF is
SUMMARY:
PO 00000
Frm 00058
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
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
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
Identify all requests by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: ACF hosts a variety of
gatherings for many different purposes.
This may include large scale
conferences, meetings for grantees or
contractors, workshops, trainings, poster
sessions, and other in-person and
virtual gatherings for individuals with
interest in ACF programs (clients,
researchers, policymakers, etc.), among
others. To ensure ACF has adequate
information to plan these activities, the
Agency must often collect information
from potential participants such as basic
contact information, preferences for
attendance (mode, special requests,
etc.), organizational affiliation, feedback
about meeting content, etc.
Additionally, some activities require
ACF to have additional information to
have the means to select the most
appropriate participants for attendance
according to the type or purpose of a
given activity, or to group participants
into the most appropriate category or
activity during an event. This may
include information about poster
presentations, speaking panels, training
courses, professional perspectives, or
experiences, etc. In addition, attendees
may be asked to submit an application
or abstract for prescreening to be
selected for attendance.
The purposes of the collections under
this umbrella generic information
collection are to gather appropriate
information to plan ACF gatherings.
Example information collection
activities could include:
• Registration forms:
Æ Information collected on these
types of forms could include name,
contact information, organization/
affiliation, basic demographics,
attendance needs, etc.
• Applications for panels, posters, or
other presentation formats:
Æ Information collected on these
types of applications could include title,
author(s), institution/organization,
abstract describing presentation or
poster, instructions, etc.
• Pre-meeting surveys:
Æ Information collected on these
types of surveys could include content
preferences, scheduling needs and
preferences, pre-meeting knowledge,
etc.
• Post-Meeting/-Workshop/-Training
Evaluation Surveys:
E:\FR\FM\01JNN1.SGM
01JNN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 105 (Thursday, June 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35881-35882]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11605]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Request for Public Comment; National Human Trafficking Prevention
Framework
AGENCY: Office on Trafficking in Persons, Administration for Children
and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: This notice informs the public of the opportunity to provide
input on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS)
National Human Trafficking Prevention Framework (Framework), which
contains strategies and approaches to prevent human trafficking and its
recurrence while increasing capacity to identify and reduce harm caused
by human trafficking. HHS will consider this input as it updates the
Framework. The draft Framework is available at https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip.
DATES: Submissions must be received by 5 p.m. EDT on June 9, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Please submit all responses via email to
[email protected] with ``Public Comment: Prevention
Framework'' in the subject. Submissions can include attachments of or
links to any supporting documentation. Please provide your contact
information for possible follow-up from the Office on Trafficking in
Persons.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kimberly Casey, Communications and
Prevention Specialist, Office on Trafficking in Persons, Email:
[email protected], Phone: 202-594-7026.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The International Labor Organization estimates 27.6 million people
were experiencing forced labor and/or commercial sexual exploitation
globally on any given day in 2021. The global prevalence of human
trafficking increased from 3.4 to 3.5 per thousand people between 2016
and 2021, driven entirely by the private economy. Although there is
still no rigorous prevalence estimate of human trafficking within the
United States, cases of human trafficking have been reported in all 50
states and the District of Columbia, on tribal land, and within U.S.
territories.
Human trafficking is a public health issue and crime with adverse
physical and mental health, developmental, financial, and social
effects, which often reach beyond the individual directly impacted to
affect families, communities, industries, and society at large. In
response to the U.S. Government's recognition that human trafficking is
both a transnational and national issue of significant concern, the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) and its subsequent
reauthorizations created a three-pronged (``3P'') federal framework to
address human trafficking--prevention, protection, and prosecution. A
fourth ``P''--for partnership--serves as a complementary means to
achieve progress across the 3Ps and engage multiple sectors of society
in the work
[[Page 35882]]
to address human trafficking. Steady progress has been made since the
TVPA was first authorized; however, efforts to assemble a focused array
of prevention strategies addressing both victimization and
perpetration, while essential, are largely absent.
Establishing the Prevention Framework
HHS plays a critical role in the U.S. Government's efforts to
prevent and respond to human trafficking. The HHS Task Force to Prevent
Human Trafficking, comprised of 21 divisions and offices across HHS,
helps implement HHS's priority actions in the National Action Plan to
Combat Human Trafficking and related national strategies. The Framework
contributes to the implementation of National Action Plan Priority
Action 1.1.2 to increase the scale and quality of human trafficking
prevention efforts utilizing a collective impact strategy.
The Framework is informed by a public health approach to violence
prevention, recognizing human trafficking is not an isolated incident
but a widespread issue impacting the health and well-being of
individuals, families, and communities across generations. Human
trafficking is a dynamic form of violence, shifting and adapting as
traffickers refine recruitment schemes, methods of control, and modes
of exploitation. As understanding and knowledge of human trafficking
grow, strategies to address it must evolve as well. Treating human
trafficking as a public health concern grants a renewed sense of
urgency and fundamentally alters how collaborators prevent and respond
to it.
A public health approach to human trafficking is proactive rather
than reactionary, moving upstream to identify prevention measures that,
combined with downstream interventions, can decrease the number of
people who experience trafficking. Focusing on three levels of
prevention--primary, secondary, and tertiary--a public health approach
seeks to stop human trafficking before it occurs, reduce its impact or
duration, mitigate lasting effects, and prevent it from recurring.
The Framework harnesses established concepts of violence prevention
to strengthen efforts to prevent human trafficking, outlining
strategies and approaches that diverse sectors of society can use to
prevent human trafficking and its recurrence while increasing their
capacity to identify and reduce harm caused by human trafficking. The
Framework encourages collaboration, coordination, and integration to
enhance human trafficking prevention, inviting partnerships with
federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local governments; business,
industry, and other private sector entities; nonprofits and non-
governmental organizations; educational institutions; and
philanthropic, faith-based, and research organizations; and more.
Through this collective effort, HHS and its partners will be prepared
to test and scale solutions that will prevent human trafficking and
improve the lives of people affected by human trafficking across the
United States.
Comments: HHS is seeking public feedback on the Framework,
including comments on understandability and suggested changes. HHS will
use comments to make updates to the Framework as needed.
Dated: May 25, 2023.
Linda Hitt,
Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-11605 Filed 5-31-23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-48-P
