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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: Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting Program Model Eligibility
Review Survey
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with request for
comment.
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,
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below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
Specifically, HRSA is inviting public
comment on its proposed survey to
identify evidence-based service delivery
models that funding recipients may use
to provide services under HRSA’s
MIECHV Program.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than March 10, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 14NWH04, 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:
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood
Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program
Model Eligibility Review Survey, OMB
No. 0915–xxxx—New
Abstract: HRSA, through its Maternal
and Child Health Bureau, oversees the
MIECHV Program in partnership with
the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) within HHS. The
MIECHV Program supports voluntary,
evidence-based home visiting services
during pregnancy and to families with
young children up to kindergarten entry
living in at-risk communities. The
MIECHV Program was last reauthorized
in December 2022.1 One key program
requirement is that programs deliver
services using models that meet HHS
criteria for evidence of effectiveness.2
HRSA and ACF define such service
delivery models as ‘‘evidence-based.’’
ACF administers the Home Visiting
Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE)
review process to identify early
childhood home visiting models that
demonstrate evidence of effectiveness.3
However, not all evidence-based service
delivery models approved through the
HomVEE process meet MIECHV
statutory requirements as enacted in the
last reauthorization of the program in
1 Section 6101 of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 117–328,
recently amended Section 511 of the Social Security
Act, as added by the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111–148, section
2951, and extended appropriated funding through
FY 2027.
2 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(i).
3 The current HHS criteria for evidence-based
models can be found at: https://
homvee.acf.hhs.gov/about-us/hhs-criteria.
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2022 such that they may be used to
carry out the MIECHV Program in
fidelity to applicable program
requirements.
HRSA previously issued a Request for
Information notice and request for
comment regarding its proposal to
standardize criteria for assessing model
eligibility to be implemented using
MIECHV Program funds in 2021.4 This
ICR reflects new MIECHV statutory
provisions that were added in December
2022 and thus replaces that 2021 notice.
HRSA is issuing this ICR to propose a
survey to identify service delivery
models that meet both HHS criteria for
evidence of effectiveness, as determined
by HomVEE review, and applicable
MIECHV statutory requirements, and
therefore may be used by eligible
entities to provide home visiting
services through the MIECHV Program.
This will be accomplished by validating
whether evidence-based models, as
determined by HomVEE, align with the
MIECHV Program’s statutory
requirements, as further discussed in
this notice. This process will ensure that
models used by funding recipients (and
their local implementing agencies) to
deliver MIECHV Program services
effectively support programs in meeting
core components of the MIECHV
Program, including those added during
the program’s 2022 reauthorization.
Following approval of this ICR
request, HRSA will assess all models
that meet HHS criteria for evidence of
effectiveness, as determined by the
HomVEE review, to determine their
MIECHV eligibility by requesting
information from home visiting model
developers through a standardized
survey. As of November 20, 2024,
HomVEE lists 24 models that meet HHS
criteria for evidence of effectiveness.5
Upon receiving the survey from HRSA,
model developers will have 30 days to
provide requested information on model
characteristics, resources, and
processes. A panel of HRSA reviewers
will assess the survey responses against
the MIECHV statutory requirements.
Any of the 24 evidence-based models
that also meet these criteria will be
considered eligible for MIECHV
Program implementation and remain
eligible for implementation after the end
of the current performance period.
4 HRSA, HHS. ‘‘Statutory Requirements and
Process Standardization: Maternal, Infant, and Early
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program
Model Eligibility Review.’’ Federal Register 86, no.
184 (September 27, 2021): 53329. https://
www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-20853.
5 HomVEE lists home visiting models that meet
HHS criteria for evidence of effectiveness at:
https://homvee.acf.hhs.gov/HRSA-Models-EligibleMIECHV-Grantees.
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Models that do not meet these criteria
will not be eligible to be used by eligible
entities (and their local implementing
agencies) to carry out the MIECHV
Program and may continue to be used
only through the currently applicable
period of performance. HRSA will work
with eligible entities regarding any
changes in model approval that may
affect their program implementation
because certain models will no longer
be available for use; however, eligible
entities will be expected to propose
projects using models approved for
MIECHV Program implementation
under future funding awards. Model
developers may submit a written request
for reconsideration of HRSA’s decision
within 15 days of receiving a negative
determination and should provide any
available supporting information for
their request. HRSA will have 45 days
after the receipt of the request to
reassess the model.
After HRSA completes the initial
review, all eligible models may be
reassessed against the statutory
requirements through the routine,
periodic HomVEE review process for
models that have already met HHS
criteria for evidence of effectiveness.
HRSA and ACF will continue to
collaborate in future years to assess
home visiting models against MIECHV
statutory requirements.
HRSA seeks public comment on the
proposed methodology HRSA proposes
to use to identify service delivery
models that meet MIECHV statutory
requirements, including how the
proposed changes will affect interested
parties such as eligible entities, model
developers, and eligible families
receiving MIECHV services.
MIECHV Program Statutory
Requirements for Home Visiting Models:
The MIECHV Program’s authorizing
statute mandates that funding recipients
implementing the program use a service
delivery model that meets specific
statutory requirements. Models must
‘‘conform to a clear consistent home
[visiting] model that has been in
existence for at least 3 years and is
research-based, grounded in relevant
empirically-based knowledge, linked to
program determined outcomes, [and is]
associated with a national organization
or institution of higher education that
has comprehensive home visitation
program standards that ensure highquality service delivery and continuous
program quality improvement.’’ 6 Under
the statute, the model must also have
demonstrated significant sustained
positive outcomes in statutory
benchmark areas and participant
outcomes when evaluated using welldesigned and rigorous randomized
controlled research designs, and the
evaluation results have been published
in a peer-reviewed journal; or quasiexperimental research designs.7 The
2022 reauthorization also added a new
requirement that the ‘‘standards for
training requirements applicable to
virtual service delivery under a home
visiting model shall be equivalent to
those that apply to in-person service
delivery under the model.’’ 8
To ensure programs comply with
MIECHV statutory requirements,9
service delivery models also must
support the delivery of home visiting
services through the employment of
well-trained and competent staff 10 that
receive ongoing high-quality
supervision,11 support programs’ strong
organizational capacity to implement
home visiting activities 12 and ability to
establish appropriate linkages and
referral networks to other community
resources and supports for participating
families,13 monitor the fidelity of
program implementation to ensure
services are delivered in fidelity to the
specified model,14 and ensure voluntary
participation in the program.15 The
2022 reauthorization also requires
MIECHV programs 16 to implement
service delivery home visiting models
that provide or support targeted,
intensive home visiting services for
high-risk populations 17 and support the
delivery of home visiting services
through at least one in-person home
visit for each participating family during
each 12-month period of enrollment.18
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: Section 711 establishes
statutory requirements for the MIECHV
Program. Information gained from this
information collection will inform
determinations of which service
delivery models are eligible to be
implemented in the MIECHV Program.
Likely Respondents: Organizations
that develop, support implementation
of, and implement early childhood
home visiting models that meet HHS
criteria for evidence of effectiveness, as
determined by HomVEE review.
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
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
MIECHV Program Model Eligibility Review Survey .............
24
1
24
3
72
Total ..............................................................................
24
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24
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72
6 42
U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(A)(i)(I).
U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(A)(i)(I).
8 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(4)(B).
9 HRSA proposes to identify service delivery
models that may be used by MIECHV funding
recipients because they comply with statutory
requirements applicable to service delivery models
and support MIECHV statutory program
requirements. Such models, in addition to meeting
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the service delivery model requirements in
subsections 711(d)(3)(A)(i) and 711(d)(4)(B), must
also support program requirements, including those
in subsections 711(d)(3)(C) and 711(e).
10 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(ii).
11 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(iii).
12 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(iv).
13 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(v).
14 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(vi).
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U.S.C. 711(e)(7)(A).
proposes to identify service delivery
models that may be used by MIECHV funding
recipients because they comply with statutory
requirements applicable to service delivery models
and support MIECHV statutory program
requirements.
17 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(B).
18 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(vii), 711(e)(10)(C).
16 HRSA
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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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Center for Indigenous Innovation and
Health Equity Tribal Advisory
Committee; Solicitation of
Nominations for Delegates
Office of Minority Health,
Office of the Secretary, Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS)
Office of Minority Health (OMH) hereby
gives notice that OMH is accepting
nominations of candidates to serve as
primary and alternate delegates for the
Center for Indigenous Innovation and
Health Equity Tribal Advisory
Committee (CIIHE TAC).
DATES: Tribal leaders are encouraged to
submit their nomination letters for
CIIHE TAC delegates by January 17,
2024, at the address listed below. OMH
will continue to receive nominations
until all CIIHE TAC primary and
alternate delegate positions are filled.
ADDRESSES: All nominations should be
emailed to minorityhealth@hhs.gov.
Please use the subject line ‘‘CIIHE TAC
Nomination.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information and guidance about the
nomination process for CIIHE TAC
delegates, please contact Rochelle
Rollins, Senior Policy Advisor, at
Rochelle.Rollins@hhs.gov. Sample
CIIHE TAC nomination letters are
available on the OMH website: https://
minorityhealth.hhs.gov/ciihe-tribaladvisory-committee-tac.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authorized under Section 1707 of the
Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.
300u–6, as amended, the mission of
OMH is to improve the health of racial
and ethnic minority and American
Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN)
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populations through the development of
health policies and programs that help
eliminate health disparities. OMH
awards and other activities are intended
to support the identification of effective
policies, programs, and practices that
improve health outcomes and to
promote the sustainability and
dissemination of these approaches.
Through the Joint Explanatory
Statement (JES) accompanying the 2021
Consolidated Appropriations Act,
Congress directed OMH to create the
CIIHE to advance Indigenous solutions
that ultimately address health
disparities in AI/AN and Native
Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
populations. Congress identified four
CIIHE priority areas: research,
education, service, and policy
development. The JES accompanying
the subsequent annual appropriations
acts has included language for OMH to
continue funding the CIIHE.
OMH established the CIIHE TAC to
provide Tribal leaders a venue to
exchange views, share information, and
provide feedback to OMH on the
development of activities addressing the
four CIIHE priority areas. The CIIHE
TAC shall support, but not supplant,
government-to-government consultation
activities that OMH undertakes.
TAC Membership: The CIIHE TAC
will consist of 16 delegate positions: one
from each of the 12 geographic areas
served by the Indian Health Service
(IHS) and four National At-Large
Member positions.
Alaska Area
Albuquerque Area
Bemidji Area
Billings Area
California Area
Great Plains Area
Nashville Area
Navajo Area
Oklahoma Area
Phoenix Area
Portland Area
Tucson Area
National At-Large Members (4)
The CIIHE TAC charter establishes a
two (2) year term length for each
delegate. There are vacancies for all IHS
areas, except the Navajo and Tucson
Areas, due to the ending of the CIIHE
TAC members’ 2-year terms.
Eligibility: The CIIHE TAC delegates
must be: (1) Elected Tribal officials from
a federally recognized Tribe acting in
their official capacity as elected officials
of their Tribe, with authority to act on
behalf of the Tribe; or (2) individuals
designated by an elected Tribal official.
Designees must have the authority to act
on behalf of the Tribal official and the
Tribe and be qualified to represent the
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views of the AI/AN Tribes in the area
from which they are nominated. No
delegate of the CIIHE TAC may be an
employee of the federal government.
Nomination Procedures: CIIHE TAC
candidates must be nominated by an
elected Tribal leader. The nomination
letter must be on Tribal letterhead and
signed by an elected Tribal leader, and
must include the following information:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Name of the nominee
Nominee’s official title
Name of the nominee’s tribe
Date of nominee’s election to official
Tribal position and term length
Nominee’s contact information
(mailing address, phone, and email)
Nominee’s expertise that is relevant to
the CIIHE TAC
Name of Tribal leader submitting the
nomination
Official title of Tribal leader
submitting the nomination
Contact information for Tribal leader
submitting the nomination and/or the
administrative office for the Tribal
government
Sample CIIHE TAC nomination letters
are available on the OMH website:
https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/ciihetribal-advisory-committee-tac.
Selection Process: OMH is responsible
for selecting and finalizing CIIHE TAC
delegates.
Eligible nominees will be considered
in the following priority order:
1. Tribal President/Chairperson/
Governor
2. Tribal Vice-President/ViceChairperson/Lt. Governor
3. Elected or Appointed Tribal Official
4. Designated Tribal Official with
authority to act on behalf of the
Tribal Leader
In the event there are multiple
nominations for a given IHS area, OMH
will determine the delegates based on a
review of the submitted nomination
materials.
Nominees will be notified of the
status of delegate selection in February
2024.
Dated: December 16, 2024.
Capt. Tarsha Cavanaugh,
Principal Deputy Director, Office of Minority
Health.
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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: Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Model Eligibility
Review Survey
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with request for comment.
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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. Specifically, HRSA is inviting public comment on its proposed
survey to identify evidence-based service delivery models that funding
recipients may use to provide services under HRSA's MIECHV Program.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than March 10,
2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14NWH04, 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: Maternal, Infant, and Early
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Model Eligibility Review
Survey, OMB No. 0915-xxxx--New
Abstract: HRSA, through its Maternal and Child Health Bureau,
oversees the MIECHV Program in partnership with the Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) within HHS. The MIECHV Program supports
voluntary, evidence-based home visiting services during pregnancy and
to families with young children up to kindergarten entry living in at-
risk communities. The MIECHV Program was last reauthorized in December
2022.\1\ One key program requirement is that programs deliver services
using models that meet HHS criteria for evidence of effectiveness.\2\
HRSA and ACF define such service delivery models as ``evidence-based.''
ACF administers the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE)
review process to identify early childhood home visiting models that
demonstrate evidence of effectiveness.\3\ However, not all evidence-
based service delivery models approved through the HomVEE process meet
MIECHV statutory requirements as enacted in the last reauthorization of
the program in 2022 such that they may be used to carry out the MIECHV
Program in fidelity to applicable program requirements.
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\1\ Section 6101 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023,
Public Law 117-328, recently amended Section 511 of the Social
Security Act, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act, Public Law 111-148, section 2951, and extended appropriated
funding through FY 2027.
\2\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(i).
\3\ The current HHS criteria for evidence-based models can be
found at: https://homvee.acf.hhs.gov/about-us/hhs-criteria.
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HRSA previously issued a Request for Information notice and request
for comment regarding its proposal to standardize criteria for
assessing model eligibility to be implemented using MIECHV Program
funds in 2021.\4\ This ICR reflects new MIECHV statutory provisions
that were added in December 2022 and thus replaces that 2021 notice.
HRSA is issuing this ICR to propose a survey to identify service
delivery models that meet both HHS criteria for evidence of
effectiveness, as determined by HomVEE review, and applicable MIECHV
statutory requirements, and therefore may be used by eligible entities
to provide home visiting services through the MIECHV Program. This will
be accomplished by validating whether evidence-based models, as
determined by HomVEE, align with the MIECHV Program's statutory
requirements, as further discussed in this notice. This process will
ensure that models used by funding recipients (and their local
implementing agencies) to deliver MIECHV Program services effectively
support programs in meeting core components of the MIECHV Program,
including those added during the program's 2022 reauthorization.
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\4\ HRSA, HHS. ``Statutory Requirements and Process
Standardization: Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) Program Model Eligibility Review.'' Federal Register 86,
no. 184 (September 27, 2021): 53329. https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-20853.
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Following approval of this ICR request, HRSA will assess all models
that meet HHS criteria for evidence of effectiveness, as determined by
the HomVEE review, to determine their MIECHV eligibility by requesting
information from home visiting model developers through a standardized
survey. As of November 20, 2024, HomVEE lists 24 models that meet HHS
criteria for evidence of effectiveness.\5\ Upon receiving the survey
from HRSA, model developers will have 30 days to provide requested
information on model characteristics, resources, and processes. A panel
of HRSA reviewers will assess the survey responses against the MIECHV
statutory requirements. Any of the 24 evidence-based models that also
meet these criteria will be considered eligible for MIECHV Program
implementation and remain eligible for implementation after the end of
the current performance period.
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Models that do not meet these criteria will not be eligible to be used
by eligible entities (and their local implementing agencies) to carry
out the MIECHV Program and may continue to be used only through the
currently applicable period of performance. HRSA will work with
eligible entities regarding any changes in model approval that may
affect their program implementation because certain models will no
longer be available for use; however, eligible entities will be
expected to propose projects using models approved for MIECHV Program
implementation under future funding awards. Model developers may submit
a written request for reconsideration of HRSA's decision within 15 days
of receiving a negative determination and should provide any available
supporting information for their request. HRSA will have 45 days after
the receipt of the request to reassess the model.
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\5\ HomVEE lists home visiting models that meet HHS criteria for
evidence of effectiveness at: https://homvee.acf.hhs.gov/HRSA-Models-Eligible-MIECHV-Grantees.
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After HRSA completes the initial review, all eligible models may be
reassessed against the statutory requirements through the routine,
periodic HomVEE review process for models that have already met HHS
criteria for evidence of effectiveness. HRSA and ACF will continue to
collaborate in future years to assess home visiting models against
MIECHV statutory requirements.
HRSA seeks public comment on the proposed methodology HRSA proposes
to use to identify service delivery models that meet MIECHV statutory
requirements, including how the proposed changes will affect interested
parties such as eligible entities, model developers, and eligible
families receiving MIECHV services.
MIECHV Program Statutory Requirements for Home Visiting Models: The
MIECHV Program's authorizing statute mandates that funding recipients
implementing the program use a service delivery model that meets
specific statutory requirements. Models must ``conform to a clear
consistent home [visiting] model that has been in existence for at
least 3 years and is research-based, grounded in relevant empirically-
based knowledge, linked to program determined outcomes, [and is]
associated with a national organization or institution of higher
education that has comprehensive home visitation program standards that
ensure high-quality service delivery and continuous program quality
improvement.'' \6\ Under the statute, the model must also have
demonstrated significant sustained positive outcomes in statutory
benchmark areas and participant outcomes when evaluated using well-
designed and rigorous randomized controlled research designs, and the
evaluation results have been published in a peer-reviewed journal; or
quasi-experimental research designs.\7\ The 2022 reauthorization also
added a new requirement that the ``standards for training requirements
applicable to virtual service delivery under a home visiting model
shall be equivalent to those that apply to in-person service delivery
under the model.'' \8\
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\6\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(A)(i)(I).
\7\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(A)(i)(I).
\8\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(4)(B).
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To ensure programs comply with MIECHV statutory requirements,\9\
service delivery models also must support the delivery of home visiting
services through the employment of well-trained and competent staff
\10\ that receive ongoing high-quality supervision,\11\ support
programs' strong organizational capacity to implement home visiting
activities \12\ and ability to establish appropriate linkages and
referral networks to other community resources and supports for
participating families,\13\ monitor the fidelity of program
implementation to ensure services are delivered in fidelity to the
specified model,\14\ and ensure voluntary participation in the
program.\15\ The 2022 reauthorization also requires MIECHV programs
\16\ to implement service delivery home visiting models that provide or
support targeted, intensive home visiting services for high-risk
populations \17\ and support the delivery of home visiting services
through at least one in-person home visit for each participating family
during each 12-month period of enrollment.\18\
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\9\ HRSA proposes to identify service delivery models that may
be used by MIECHV funding recipients because they comply with
statutory requirements applicable to service delivery models and
support MIECHV statutory program requirements. Such models, in
addition to meeting the service delivery model requirements in
subsections 711(d)(3)(A)(i) and 711(d)(4)(B), must also support
program requirements, including those in subsections 711(d)(3)(C)
and 711(e).
\10\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(ii).
\11\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(iii).
\12\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(iv).
\13\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(v).
\14\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(vi).
\15\ 42 U.S.C. 711(e)(7)(A).
\16\ HRSA proposes to identify service delivery models that may
be used by MIECHV funding recipients because they comply with
statutory requirements applicable to service delivery models and
support MIECHV statutory program requirements.
\17\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(B).
\18\ 42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)(vii), 711(e)(10)(C).
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Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Section 711 establishes
statutory requirements for the MIECHV Program. Information gained from
this information collection will inform determinations of which service
delivery models are eligible to be implemented in the MIECHV Program.
Likely Respondents: Organizations that develop, support
implementation of, and implement early childhood home visiting models
that meet HHS criteria for evidence of effectiveness, as determined by
HomVEE review.
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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MIECHV Program Model Eligibility 24 1 24 3 72
Review Survey..................
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Total....................... 24 .............. 24 .............. 72
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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. 2025-00129 Filed 1-7-25; 8:45 am]
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