[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 22, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10531-10532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-4051]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Title: Permanency Innovations Initiative Evaluation: Phase I.
OMB No.: New collection.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to collect
data for an evaluation of the Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII).
This 5-year initiative, funded by the Children's Bureau (CB) within
ACF, is intended to build the evidence base for innovative
interventions that enhance well-being and improve permanency outcomes
for particular groups of children and youth who are at risk for long-
term foster care and who experience the most serious barriers to timely
permanency.
Six grantees are funded to identify local barriers to permanent
placement and implement innovative strategies that mitigate or
eliminate those barriers and reduce the likelihood that children will
remain in foster care for three years or longer. The first year of the
initiative focused on clarifying grantees' target populations and
intervention programs. In addition, evaluation plans were developed to
support rigorous site-specific and cross-site studies to document the
implementation and effectiveness of the grantees' projects and the
initiative overall.
Data collection for the PII evaluation includes a number of
components being launched at different points in time. The purpose of
the current document is to request approval of data collection efforts
needed for a first phase of data collection and to request a waiver for
subsequent 60 day notices for later components of the evaluation. The
first phase includes data collection for a cross-site implementation
evaluation and site-specific evaluations of two PII grantees (Washoe
County, Nevada, and the State of Kansas) that will begin implementing
interventions during the second year of the PII grant period. The
second phase includes a cost evaluation and site-specific evaluations
of four PII grantees expected to implement interventions in the third
year of the PII grant period.
Data for the evaluations will be collected through: (1) Direct
assessment of caregivers; (2) service providers' clinical assessments
of children and families; (3) interviews and focus groups with grantee
staff during site visits and through telephone interviews; (4) web-
based data collection from service providers and key informants; and
(5) retrieval and submission of data from grantee data systems.
Respondents: Children and their parents or permanent or foster
caregivers, caseworkers, supervisors, service providers, and key
informants such as grantee project directors, data managers, and
representatives of partner agencies.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Annual number Number of Average
Instrument of responses per burden hours Total annual
respondents respondent per response burden hours
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CROSS-SITE IMPLEMENTATION STUDY
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Baseline Survey of Organization/System Readiness 60 1 .75 45
Implementation Drivers Web Survey............... 150 2.0 .75 225
Grantee Case Study Field Visit Discussion Guide. 60 1 2.0 120
Fidelity Data (Implementation Quotient Tracker). 2 8 1.5 24
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Cross-site implementation study annual burden hours 414
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KANSAS SITE-SPECIFIC EVALUATION
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Caregiver Initial Information Form.............. 300 1 0.1 30
Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale 300 2 1.0 600
Family Assessment Battery....................... 300 .52 1.5 234
Caseworker interviews for NCFAS completion...... 45 54 0.5 1,215
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Kansas annual burden hours 2,079
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WASHOE COUNTY SITE-SPECIFIC EVALUATION
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Family Assessment Battery....................... 249 1.33 1.5 497
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Washoe annual burden hours 497
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,990.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW.,
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. Email
address: [email protected]. All requests should be
identified by the title of the information collection.
The Department specifically requests comments on (a) whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-4051 Filed 2-21-12; 8:45 am]
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