[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 208 (Wednesday, October 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66008-66009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-27416]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Project: Implementation Plan Guidance for the Tribal
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant Program.
Title: Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
Program Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan.
OMB No.: 0970-0389.
Description: Social Security Act, Title V, Section 511 (42 U.S.C.
711), as added by Sec. 2951 of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148), created the Maternal, Infant, and Early
Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) and authorized the Secretary
of HHS (in Section 511(h)(2)(A)) to award grants to Indian tribes (or a
consortium of Indian tribes), tribal organizations, or urban Indian
organizations to conduct an early childhood home visiting program. The
legislation set aside 3 percent of the total MIECHV program
appropriation (authorized in Section 511(j)) for grants to tribal
entities. Tribal MIECHV grants, to the greatest extent practicable, are
to be consistent with the requirements of the MIECHV grants to states
and jurisdictions (authorized in Section 511(c)), and include
conducting a needs assessment and establishing quantifiable, measurable
benchmarks.
The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Care
and Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood
Development, in collaboration with the Health Resources and Services
Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, plans to awarded
grants for the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting Program (Tribal Home Visiting). The Tribal Home Visiting grant
awards will support 5-year cooperative agreements to conduct community
needs assessments, plan for and implement high-quality, culturally-
relevant, evidence-based home visiting programs in at-risk Tribal
communities, and participate in research and evaluation activities to
build the knowledge base on home visiting among Native populations.
In Year 1 of the cooperative agreement, grantees must (1) conduct a
comprehensive community needs and readiness assessment and (2) develop
a plan to respond to identified needs. Specifically, grantees will be
required to conduct or update a needs and readiness assessment, and
develop an implementation plan to respond to those needs, including a
plan for performance measurement and CQI and participating in or
conducting rigorous evaluation activities. Grantees will be expected to
submit the needs assessment and implementation plan within 10 months of
the Year 1 award date.
Respondents: Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting Program Year 1 Grantees.
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Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Instrument Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood 25 1 100 2,500
Home Visiting Program Needs Assessment and Plan
for Responding to Identified Needs.............
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours......... .............. .............. .............. 2,500
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In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(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: ACF 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. 2015-27416 Filed 10-27-15; 8:45 am]
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