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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
Form 2: Performance Indicators and Systems Outcome
Measures ..........................................................................
56
1
56
221
12,376
Total ..............................................................................
56
........................
56
........................
43,736
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.
[FR Doc. 2024–06998 Filed 4–2–24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4165–15–P
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment
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.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
HRSA submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on
HRSA’s ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has
closed.
SUMMARY:
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than May 3, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
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within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under Review—Open for
Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email
Joella Roland, the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer, at
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443–
3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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, § 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, which 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
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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.
A 60-day notice published in the
Federal Register on December 5, 2023,
vol. 88, No. 232; pp. 84343–45. There
were no public comments. One home
visiting model developer requested
copies of the information collection
forms.
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
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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
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
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 Form (Refinement Phase) .......................
Focus Group Participant Characteristics Form (All Phases)
Total ..............................................................................
Number of
responses per
respondent
16
1.00
16.00
24
1
24
1.50
36.00
24
1
24
1.50
36.00
24
24
3
1
72
24
1.00
1.00
72.00
24.00
48
1
48
1.00
48.00
40
48
120
9
6
1
360
288
120
0.17
0.08
0.08
61.20
23.00
9.60
368
........................
976
........................
325.80
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
AGENCY:
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request Information
Collection Request Title: Home Visiting
Assessment of Implementation Quality
Study: Better Addressing Disparities
Through Home Visiting
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
HRSA submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on
HRSA’s ICR only after the 30-day
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Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
16
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.
[FR Doc. 2024–06987 Filed 4–2–24; 8:45 am]
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responses
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comment period for this notice has
closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than May 3, 2024.
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 Review—Open for
Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email
Joella Roland, the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer, at
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443–
3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title:
Home Visiting Assessment of
Implementation Quality Study: Better
Addressing Disparities Through Home
Visiting, OMB No. 0915-xxxx—NEW.
Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and
Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) program, authorized by
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment 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.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than May 3,
2024.
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 Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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, Sec. 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, which 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.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on December 5,
2023, vol. 88, No. 232; pp. 84343-45. There were no public comments.
One home visiting model developer requested copies of the information
collection forms.
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
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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 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
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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
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Program Eligibility Protocol.... 16 1 16 1.00 16.00
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.50 36.00
Protocol 1 (Co-definition
Phase).........................
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.50 36.00
Protocol 2 (Co-definition
Phase).........................
Program Staff Focus Group 24 3 72 1.00 72.00
Protocol (Installation &
Refinement Phases).............
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.00 24.00
Protocol (Summary Phase).......
Family Focus Group Protocol (Co- 48 1 48 1.00 48.00
definition & Summary Phases)...
Home Visitor Questionnaire 40 9 360 0.17 61.20
(Installation & Refinement
Phases)........................
Family Post-Visit Form 48 6 288 0.08 23.00
(Refinement Phase).............
Focus Group Participant 120 1 120 0.08 9.60
Characteristics Form (All
Phases)........................
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Total....................... 368 .............. 976 .............. 325.80
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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.
[FR Doc. 2024-06987 Filed 4-2-24; 8:45 am]
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