[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 3, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54253-54254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-21325]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-13-13AGS]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-7510 or
send comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments are invited 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) ways to enhance 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. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Prevention of Child Maltreatment through Policy Change--NEW--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The prevalence and consequences of child maltreatment (CM) make it
a public health concern that requires early and effective prevention.
Public policies can be critical in shaping every level of the social
ecology, including individuals, families, and communities, and thus
have the potential to play a key role in the prevention of CM. In order
to protect children and youth and build an evidence-base of effective
prevention strategies, evaluation of public policies are needed,
including those policies currently being implemented. Policies related
to family income (e.g., Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
eligibility and inroads to related services) were identified by CDC
through the Division of Violence Prevention's Public Health Leadership
Initiative policy analysis as those that are in need of rigorous
evaluation.
CDC requests OMB approval for a period of two years in order to
perform a data collection, which will provide data for a larger outcome
evaluation that seeks to understand if county-administered policy
strategies of the TANF program result in lower rates of CM and
associated child welfare outcomes (e.g., time to adoption). The
proposed data collection will include surveys and semi-structured
interviews with state and county-level government employees and
partners in Colorado to address three primary aims: (1) To understand
how a state policy allowing counties to administer TANF programs with
flexibility contributes to county-level adoption of integrated welfare
and child welfare service models; (2) to develop and refine an
Implementation Index, which will quantify the degree of integration
between welfare and child welfare services; and (3) to inform the
larger outcome evaluation, which examines whether TANF policies and
program supports reduce rates of CM when they are delivered in an
integrated welfare and child welfare service model.
Understanding how service integration between TANF and child
welfare affects CM may be very important to improving CDC's ability to
devise and implement effective population-based prevention strategies.
Approximately 188 Colorado state and county employees and partners
form the sample population. Specifically, state- and county-level
employees working in welfare and/or child welfare agencies will be
invited to complete a brief survey and an hour-long semi-structured
interview. This study population includes individuals employed in the
following positions: County-Level Child Welfare Workers, State-Level
Administrators, County Directors of Human Services, Child Welfare
Services and Colorado Works Leadership/Manager, Child Welfare Services
and Colorado Works Case Manager, Caseworker, Technician, and Other
Client-Serving Staff. An additional 72 individuals employed by Allied
Staff (e.g., Housing, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
Medicaid, Child Care) and Partners of Child Welfare and Colorado Works
will also be invited to complete an hour-long semi-structured
interview. For the survey, 116 project participants will respond to the
survey once, where each response requires 15 minutes: 116 (responses
total) x 1 (responses per total project period) x 15/60 (hour per
response) = 30 total survey burden hours. For the semi-structured
interview, 188 project participants will respond to the interview once,
where this response requires 188 total semi-structured interview burden
hours. The total burden hours for this proposed data collection are
218.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
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Number of Avg. burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hrs.) (in hrs.)
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County Directors of Human Survey of County 18 1 15/60 5
Services. TANF and Child
Welfare
Respondents.
Interview of 18 1 1 18
County Director
of Human
Services.
State Level Administrators.... Survey of State 8 1 15/60 2
Level
Administrators.
Interview of 8 1 1 8
State Level
Administrator/
Field
Administrator.
Child Welfare/Colorado Works Survey of County 36 1 15/60 9
Leadership/Manager. TANF and Child
Welfare
Respondents.
Interview of 36 1 1 36
Child Welfare/
Colorado Works
Leadership/
Manager.
Child Welfare Services and Survey of County 54 1 15/60 14
Colorado Works Case Manager, TANF and Child
Caseworker, Technician, and Welfare
Other Client-Serving Staff. Respondents.
Interview of 54 1 1 54
Child Welfare
and Colorado
Works Case
Manager,
Caseworker,
Technician and
Other Client-
Serving Staff.
Allied Staff (e.g., Housing, Interview of 36 1 1 36
Supplemental Nutrition Allied Staff
Assistance Program, Medicaid, (e.g., Housing,
Child Care). Supplemental
Nutrition
Assistance
Program,
Medicaid, Child
Care).
Partners of Child Welfare and Interview of 36 1 1 36
Colorado Works. Partners.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 218
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LeRoy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-21325 Filed 8-30-13; 8:45 am]
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