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visiting programs. One of the three
quality components the study will focus
on is family voice and leadership (FVL),
which involves including families in
decisions related to program
implementation. The requested
information collection will provide a
better understanding of how MIECHVfunded home visiting programs
currently engage families and will
provide preliminary information on
how FVL may influence home visiting
implementation and program quality.
Information collection activities include
two online surveys, focus groups, and
interviews.
A 60-day notice was published in the
Federal Register on December 5, 2023,
88 FR 84339–84340. There was one
response to public comment from a
home visiting model developer. The
commentor expressed concerns about
the estimated burden for focus group
and made suggestions for language
changes including use of plain language,
clarifying instructions, and providing
questions in advance. In response to
these comments, the burden hours for
focus groups and interviews were
increased, and the number of items on
the MIECHV Program FVL Online
Survey was reduced. Recommendations
for language revisions were
incorporated into the revised
information collection tools. An
additional information collection tool
was added to this ICR to facilitate the
recruitment of families for participation
in a focus group (Family Focus Group
Recruitment Survey). Two form names
were also modified slightly: the Tribal
and State MIECHV Administrators
Interview Guide was renamed the
MIECHV Lead Interview Guide, and the
LIA Program Staff Focus Group Protocol
was renamed the Home Visiting
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: HRSA is seeking additional
information about how the MIECHV
program engages and supports families
in leadership opportunities to inform
and improve programs. HRSA intends to
use this information to identify
actionable strategies that MIECHV
awardees and LIAs could take to engage
families meaningfully and effectively in
program decisions and to ensure that
families’ unique strengths, needs,
cultures, and preferences drive service
delivery.
Likely Respondents: MIECHV
awardees that are states, nonprofit
organizations, and tribes, LIA staff
(program directors, coordinators,
supervisors, and home visitors); and
families who have been engaged in FVL
activities by MIECHV-funded home
visiting programs.
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. Compared to the versions
submitted for the 60-day approval
process in December, estimated burden
hours have increased as a result of
adding an additional information
collection activity and implementing
the feedback provided in public
comments during the 60-day comment
period and pre-testing data collection
protocols. 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
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
MIECHV Program FVL Online Survey ................................
Family Focus Group Protocol ..............................................
MIECHV Lead Interview Guide ............................................
Home Visiting Program Staff Focus Group Protocol ...........
Family Focus Group Recruitment Survey ...........................
1000
48
12
48
100
1
1
1
1
1
1000
48
12
48
100
0.33
1.50
1.50
1.50
0.08
330
72
18
72
8
Total ..............................................................................
1,208
........................
1,208
........................
500
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
ACTION:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities Title: Assessing the Use of
Coaching To Promote Positive
Caregiver-Child Interactions in Home
Visiting
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
AGENCY:
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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
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
SUMMARY:
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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.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title:
Assessing the Use of Coaching to
Promote Positive Caregiver-Child
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Interactions in Home Visiting OMB No.
0906–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 coaching to promote caregiver-child
interactions and positive caregiving
skills. Coaching involves a home visitor
providing instructions to the parent or
caregiver as they carry out the skill and
differs from a common home visiting
strategy, modeling, in which home
visitors first demonstrate a skill
themselves before asking the parent or
caregiver to try it. The purpose of this
information collection is to better
understand, through rapid cycle
learning, how MIECHV-funded home
visiting programs can implement
coaching strategies during home visits.
Information will be collected in four
phases designed to: (1) define coaching
strategies (co-definition phase), (2)
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.
A 60-day notice published in the
Federal Register on December 5, 2023,
vol. 88, No. 232; pp. 84342–43. There
were no public comments. One home
visiting model developer requested
copies of the information collection
instruments.
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 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 collected information to
provide evidence-informed resources
and strategies that MIECHV awardees
can use to inform their use of coaching
strategies to strengthen their 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 Learning Cycle Form (Installation & Refinement Phases) ...................................................................
Family Post-Visit Form (Refinement Phase) .......................
Focus Group Participant Characteristics Form (All Phases)
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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
120
9
6
1
360
288
120
0.17
0.08
0.08
61.2
23.0
9.6
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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total ..............................................................................
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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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: The Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting Program Performance
Measurement Information System
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 June 3, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
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
SUMMARY:
368
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
........................
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:
The Maternal, Infant, and Early
Childhood Home Visiting Program
Performance Measurement Information
System, OMB No. 0906–0017, Revision.
Abstract: This request is for continued
approval of the Maternal, Infant, and
Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) Program Performance
Measurement Information System. The
MIECHV Program is administered by the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
within HRSA in partnership with the
Administration for Children and
Families and provides support to all 56
states and jurisdictions, as well as tribes
and tribal organizations. Through a
needs assessment, states, jurisdictions,
tribes, and tribal organizations identify
target populations and select the home
visiting service delivery model(s) that
best meet their needs. There is no
proposed change to the previously
approved information collection
instruments. Over the next 3 years, as
part of efforts to implement new
statutory provisions enacted as part of
reauthorization of the MIECHV program,
HRSA intends to engage with MIECHV
awardees, home visiting model
developers, and federal partners to
identify opportunities to reduce
administrative burden related to
performance reporting, to enhance
performance measures to measure
disparities, and to align performance
measures with other programs
administered by HRSA’s Maternal and
Child Health Bureau.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: HRSA uses performance
information to demonstrate program
accountability and continuously
976
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
........................
Total
burden hours
325.8
monitor and provide oversight to
MIECHV Program awardees. The
information is also used to provide
quality improvement guidance and
technical assistance to awardees and
help inform the development of early
childhood systems at the national, state,
and local level. HRSA is seeking to
continue collecting information on
demographic, service utilization, and
select clinical indicators for participants
enrolled in home visiting services and a
set of standardized performance and
outcome indicators that correspond
with the statutorily identified
benchmark areas. This information will
be used to demonstrate awardees’
compliance with statutory and
programmatic requirements. It will also
be used to monitor and provide
continued oversight for awardee
performance and to target technical
assistance resources to awardees.
Likely Respondents: MIECHV Program
awardees that are states, jurisdictions,
and, where applicable, nonprofit
organizations providing home visiting
services within states.
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.
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Number of
respondents
Form name
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(in hours)
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hours
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities Title: Assessing the Use
of Coaching To Promote Positive Caregiver-Child Interactions in 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 Coaching
to Promote Positive Caregiver-Child
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Interactions in Home Visiting OMB No. 0906-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 coaching to promote
caregiver-child interactions and positive caregiving skills. Coaching
involves a home visitor providing instructions to the parent or
caregiver as they carry out the skill and differs from a common home
visiting strategy, modeling, in which home visitors first demonstrate a
skill themselves before asking the parent or caregiver to try it. The
purpose of this information collection is to better understand, through
rapid cycle learning, how MIECHV-funded home visiting programs can
implement coaching strategies during home visits.
Information will be collected in four phases designed to: (1)
define coaching strategies (co-definition phase), (2) 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.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on December 5,
2023, vol. 88, No. 232; pp. 84342-43. There were no public comments.
One home visiting model developer requested copies of the information
collection instruments.
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 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 caregiver-
child interactions in virtual and in-person settings, while reducing
home visitor burden and increasing family acceptance of this strategy.
HRSA intends to use collected information to provide evidence-informed
resources and strategies that MIECHV awardees can use to inform their
use of coaching strategies to strengthen their 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
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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 16.0
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 Learning Cycle Form 40 9 360 0.17 61.2
(Installation & Refinement
Phases)........................
Family Post-Visit Form 48 6 288 0.08 23.0
(Refinement Phase).............
Focus Group Participant 120 1 120 0.08 9.6
Characteristics Form (All
Phases)........................
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Director, Executive Secretariat.
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