[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 24 (Friday, February 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6270-6272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02173]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-16MM; Docket No. CDC-2016-0019]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of
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government information, invites the general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed
information collection project entitled Performance Monitoring of
``Working with Publicly Funded Health Centers to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
among Youth from Vulnerable Populations.'' CDC seeks to collect
information to monitor performance of three awardees working on teen
pregnancy prevention project and to determine training and technical
assistance needs to address any performance issues.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before April 5, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0019 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. 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.
Proposed Project
Performance Monitoring of ``Working with Publicly Funded Health
Centers to Reduce Teen Pregnancy among Youth from Vulnerable
Populations''--New--National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
In 2014, the US rate of 24.2 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 was
the highest of all Western industrialized countries. Access to
reproductive health services and the most effective types of
contraception have been shown to reduce the likelihood that teens
become pregnant. Nevertheless, reviews of recent research and teen
pregnancy prevention projects, including a collaborative project
implemented by CDC and the HHS Office of Adolescent Health (2010-2015),
demonstrate that many health centers serving adolescents do not engage
in youth-friendly best practices that may enhance access to care and to
the most effective types of contraception. Furthermore, youth at
highest risk of experiencing a teen pregnancy are often not connected
to the reproductive health care that they need, even when they are part
of a population that is known to be at high risk for a teen pregnancy.
Significant racial, ethnic and geographic disparities in teen birth
rates persist and continue to be a focus of public health efforts.
To address these challenges, CDC is providing funding to three
organizations to strengthen partnerships and processes that improve
reproductive health services for teens. CDC's awardees will work with
approximately 35 publicly funded health centers to implement
organizational changes and provider training based on best practices in
adolescent reproductive health care. In addition, awardees will work
with approximately 30 youth-serving organizations (YSO) to provide
staff training and develop systematic approaches to identifying youth
who are at risk for a teen pregnancy and referring those youth to
reproductive health care services. Finally, awardees will develop
communication campaigns that increase awareness of the partner health
centers' services for teens. Activities are expected to result in
changes to health center and YSO partners' policies, to staff
practices, and to youth health care seeking and teen pregnancy
prevention behaviors.
Although similar activities have been implemented in a variety of
teen pregnancy prevention projects, the proposed combination of
efforts, and the incorporation of youth-friendly best practices, have
not been previously implemented or evaluated. CDC therefore plans to
collect information needed to assess these efforts. Information will be
collected from the CDC awardees, the health center and YSO partner
organizations, and the youth served by the health center partner
organizations. CDC will use the information to determine the types of
training and technical assistance that are needed, to monitor whether
awardees meet objectives related to health center and YSO partners'
policies and staff practices, to support a data-driven quality
improvement process for adolescent sexual and reproductive health care
services and referrals, and to assess whether the project model was
effective in increasing the utilization of services by youth.
OMB approval is requested for three years. Participation in the
organizational
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assessment activities is required for awardees and partner
organizations. Participation in the Health Center Youth Survey is
voluntary for youth and will not involve the collection of identifiable
personal information. There are no costs to respondents other than
their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total
Respondents Form name respondents responses per response burden (in
respondent (in hrs.) hrs.)
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Awardee......................... Training and Technical 3 12 2 72
Assistance Tool.
Quarterly Performance 3 3 2 18
Measure Reporting Tool.
Annual Performance 3 1 6 18
Measure Reporting Tool.
Health Center Project Quarterly Performance 35 3 2 210
Coordinator. Measure Reporting Tool.
Annual Performance 35 1 4 140
Measure Reporting Tool.
Health Center 35 1 2 70
Organizational
Assessment.
Health Center Providers......... Health Center Provider 175 1 30/60 88
Survey.
Youth........................... Health Center Youth 1,750 1 15/60 438
Survey.
YSO Project Coordinator......... Quarterly Performance 30 3 1 90
Measure Reporting Tool.
Annual Performance 30 1 75/60 38
Measure Reporting Tool.
Youth Serving 30 1 1 30
Organization (YSO)
Organizational
Assessment.
YSO Staff....................... YSO Staff Survey....... 450 1 30/60 225
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Total....................... ....................... ........... .............. ........... 1,437
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Leroy A. 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.
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