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identify potential refinements to
improve coaching strategies (installation
phase); (3) iteratively test the
refinements (refinement phase); and (4)
assess the potential of coaching
strategies to improve service delivery
and promote family engagement and
family satisfaction with home visiting
programs (summary phase). Data
collection activities include focus
groups, online questionnaires, and
review of documents and administrative
data.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The COVID–19 public
health emergency led the MIECHV
Program to rapidly adjust practices,
within the bounds of evidence-based
home visiting model guidance, to
reduce service delivery disruptions
while protecting the health and safety of
home visiting participants and the home
visiting workforce. Largely prompted by
the shift to virtual home visits, one of
these practice changes was to use
coaching to promote positive caregiving
skills and family-child interactions.
Home visitors suggested that using
coaching strategies enhanced the way
that home visitors worked with families,
particularly in virtual settings when
home visitors were unable to use
modeling strategies (e.g., in-person
demonstrations by home visitors). Some
findings indicate that home visitors who
used coaching perceived that it led to
improved family engagement and
caregiver confidence in interacting with
their child. However, other findings
suggest that some families may not
prefer coaching over modeling and that
coaching may create a burden on home
visitors. As home visitors transition
back to primarily in-person home visits,
there is a need for more information
about strategies to support the
implementation of coaching to
effectively promote positive caregiverchild interactions in virtual and inperson settings, while reducing home
visitor burden and increasing family
acceptance of this strategy. HRSA
intends to use the information collected
to provide evidence-informed resources
and strategies that MIECHV awardees
can use to inform their use of coaching
strategies to strengthen home visiting
services.
Likely Respondents: Respondents
include families who receive home
visiting services and MIECHV-funded
home visiting program staff, which may
include program directors, managers,
supervisors, and home visitors.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose, or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install, and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
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Form name
Program Eligibility Protocol ......................................................
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol 1 (Co-definition Phase)
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol 2 (Co-definition Phase)
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol (Installation & Refinement Phases) .......................................................................
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol (Summary Phase) ........
Family Focus Group Protocol (Co-definition & Summary
Phases) ................................................................................
Home Visitor Questionnaire (Installation & Refinement
Phases) ................................................................................
Family Post-Visit Questionnaire (Refinement Phase) .............
Focus Group Participant Characteristics Form (All Phases) ...
Total ..................................................................................
HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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1.00
1.50
1.50
16.0
36.0
36.0
24
24
3
1
72
24
1.00
1.00
72.0
24.0
48
1
48
1.00
48.0
40
48
120
9
6
1
360
288
120
0.17
0.08
0.08
61.2
23.0
9.6
368
........................
976
........................
325.8
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request; Information
Collection Request Title: Assessing
the Use of Informal Contacts To
Promote Caregivers’ Engagement and
Satisfaction With Home Visiting
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
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In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, HRSA announces plans to
submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to
OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate,
below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
SUMMARY:
Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than February 5, 2024.
DATES:
Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
ADDRESSES:
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Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, at (301) 443–3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Assessing the Use of Informal Contacts
to Promote Caregivers’ Engagement and
Satisfaction with Home Visiting OMB
No. 0915–xxxx—[New].
Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and
Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) Program, authorized by
Social Security Act, title V, section 511
(42 U.S.C. 711) and administered by
HRSA in partnership with the
Administration for Children and
Families, supports voluntary, evidencebased home visiting services during
pregnancy and for parents with young
children up to kindergarten entry.
States, tribal entities, and certain
nonprofit organizations are eligible to
receive funding from the MIECHV
Program and have the flexibility to tailor
the program to serve the specific needs
of their communities. Funding
recipients may subaward grant funds to
local implementing agencies to provide
home visiting services to eligible
families in at-risk communities.
This information collection is part of
the Assessing and Describing Practice
Transitions Among Evidence-Based
Home Visiting Programs in Response to
the COVID–19 Public Health Emergency
Study. This study aims to identify and
study practices implemented in
response to the COVID–19 public health
emergency that support evidence-based
practice and have the potential to
enhance home visiting programming.
One of the practices the study identified
is the use of informal contacts. Informal
contacts are any contacts between a
home visitor and family that occur
between formal home visits (e.g., text
messages, emails). The purpose of this
information collection is to better
understand, through rapid cycle
learning, how MIECHV-funded home
visiting programs can use informal
contacts to improve service delivery and
promote caregiver’s engagement and
satisfaction.
Information will be collected in four
phases designed to (1) identify informal
contact strategies (co-definition phase);
(2) pilot test and identify refinements to
improve the implementation of
strategies (installation phase); (3)
iteratively test the strategies with
refinements to their implementation
(refinement phase); and (4) assess the
potential of informal contact strategies
to improve service delivery and promote
family engagement and family
satisfaction with home visiting
programs (summary phase). Data
collection activities include focus
groups, online questionnaires, and
review of documents and administrative
data.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The onset of the COVID–19
public health emergency prompted
home visitors to use telephone, text, and
social media direct messaging to
informally contact families on a more
frequent basis—in some instances,
daily. This practice has continued for
some programs even after the end of the
public health emergency and the
transition back to in-person service
delivery. Current evidence suggests
considerable variation in strategies used
by home visiting programs with regards
to context, type, frequency, and purpose
of informal contacts. While increasing
contacts helped home visitors to build
rapport and further address family
needs, other findings suggest that
informal contacts can place pressure on
families to engage with home visitors
beyond what they have the capacity for
and increase the workloads of home
visitors. Given these initial findings and
the increased use of informal contacts
since the public health emergency, there
is a need for more information about
how home visitors contact families
outside of home visits, variations in
strategies, how families perceive the
strategies, and how to address
challenges around informal contacts.
HRSA intends to use collected
information to provide evidenceinformed resources and strategies that
MIECHV awardees can use to effectively
engage and communicate with families
between scheduled home visits.
Likely Respondents: Respondents
include families who receive home
visiting services and MIECHV-funded
visiting program staff, which may
include program directors, managers,
supervisors, and home visitors.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose, or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install, and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES
Form name
Program Eligibility Protocol ..................................................
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol 1 (Co-definition
Phase) ..............................................................................
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol 2 (Co-definition
Phase) ..............................................................................
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol (Installation & Refinement Phases) .............................................................
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol (Summary Phase) ....
Family Focus Group Protocol (Co-definition & Summary
Phases) ............................................................................
Home Visitor Questionnaire (Installation & Refinement
Phases) ............................................................................
Family Post-Visit Questionnaire (Refinement Phase) .........
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
16
1
16
1.00
16.0
24
1
24
1.50
36.0
24
1
24
1.50
36.0
24
24
3
1
72
24
1.00
1.00
72.0
24.0
48
1
48
1.00
48.0
40
48
9
6
360
288
0.17
0.08
61.2
23.0
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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Focus Group Participant Characteristics Form (All Phases)
120
1
120
0.08
9.6
Total ..............................................................................
368
........................
976
........................
325.8
HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Dated: November 30, 2023.
David W. Freeman,
Supervisory Program Analyst, Office of
Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Assessing
the Use of Informal Contacts To Promote Caregivers' Engagement and
Satisfaction With Home Visiting
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than February
5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
[[Page 84344]]
Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call Joella Roland, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Assessing the Use of Informal
Contacts to Promote Caregivers' Engagement and Satisfaction with Home
Visiting OMB No. 0915-xxxx--[New].
Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) Program, authorized by Social Security Act, title V, section
511 (42 U.S.C. 711) and administered by HRSA in partnership with the
Administration for Children and Families, supports voluntary, evidence-
based home visiting services during pregnancy and for parents with
young children up to kindergarten entry. States, tribal entities, and
certain nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive funding from
the MIECHV Program and have the flexibility to tailor the program to
serve the specific needs of their communities. Funding recipients may
subaward grant funds to local implementing agencies to provide home
visiting services to eligible families in at-risk communities.
This information collection is part of the Assessing and Describing
Practice Transitions Among Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs in
Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Study. This study aims
to identify and study practices implemented in response to the COVID-19
public health emergency that support evidence-based practice and have
the potential to enhance home visiting programming. One of the
practices the study identified is the use of informal contacts.
Informal contacts are any contacts between a home visitor and family
that occur between formal home visits (e.g., text messages, emails).
The purpose of this information collection is to better understand,
through rapid cycle learning, how MIECHV-funded home visiting programs
can use informal contacts to improve service delivery and promote
caregiver's engagement and satisfaction.
Information will be collected in four phases designed to (1)
identify informal contact strategies (co-definition phase); (2) pilot
test and identify refinements to improve the implementation of
strategies (installation phase); (3) iteratively test the strategies
with refinements to their implementation (refinement phase); and (4)
assess the potential of informal contact strategies to improve service
delivery and promote family engagement and family satisfaction with
home visiting programs (summary phase). Data collection activities
include focus groups, online questionnaires, and review of documents
and administrative data.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The onset of the COVID-19
public health emergency prompted home visitors to use telephone, text,
and social media direct messaging to informally contact families on a
more frequent basis--in some instances, daily. This practice has
continued for some programs even after the end of the public health
emergency and the transition back to in-person service delivery.
Current evidence suggests considerable variation in strategies used by
home visiting programs with regards to context, type, frequency, and
purpose of informal contacts. While increasing contacts helped home
visitors to build rapport and further address family needs, other
findings suggest that informal contacts can place pressure on families
to engage with home visitors beyond what they have the capacity for and
increase the workloads of home visitors. Given these initial findings
and the increased use of informal contacts since the public health
emergency, there is a need for more information about how home visitors
contact families outside of home visits, variations in strategies, how
families perceive the strategies, and how to address challenges around
informal contacts. HRSA intends to use collected information to provide
evidence-informed resources and strategies that MIECHV awardees can use
to effectively engage and communicate with families between scheduled
home visits.
Likely Respondents: Respondents include families who receive home
visiting services and MIECHV-funded visiting program staff, which may
include program directors, managers, supervisors, and home visitors.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Program Eligibility Protocol.... 16 1 16 1.00 16.0
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.50 36.0
Protocol 1 (Co-definition
Phase).........................
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.50 36.0
Protocol 2 (Co-definition
Phase).........................
Program Staff Focus Group 24 3 72 1.00 72.0
Protocol (Installation &
Refinement Phases).............
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.00 24.0
Protocol (Summary Phase).......
Family Focus Group Protocol (Co- 48 1 48 1.00 48.0
definition & Summary Phases)...
Home Visitor Questionnaire 40 9 360 0.17 61.2
(Installation & Refinement
Phases)........................
Family Post-Visit Questionnaire 48 6 288 0.08 23.0
(Refinement Phase).............
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Focus Group Participant 120 1 120 0.08 9.6
Characteristics Form (All
Phases)........................
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Total....................... 368 .............. 976 .............. 325.8
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HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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