[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 25 (Monday, February 8, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6521-6522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02351]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: National Center on Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships
(NCEHS-CCP) Evaluation.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded 275 Early
Head Start expansion and Early Head Start-child care partnership grants
(EHS-CCP) in 50 states; Washington, DC; Puerto Rico; and the Northern
Mariana Islands. These grants will allow new or existing Early Head
Start programs to partner with local child care centers and family
child care providers to expand high-quality early learning
opportunities for infants and toddlers from low-income families.
NCEHS-CCP will support the effective implementation of new EHS-CCP
grants by disseminating information through training and technical
assistance (T/TA) and resources and materials. NCEHS-CCP is primarily
targeted to T/TA providers working directly with the EHS-CCP grantees
(including Office of Head Start (OHS) and Office of Child Care (OCC)
National Centers, regional training and technical assistance (T/TA)
specialists, and implementation planners and fiscal consultants). State
and federal agencies (including OHS and OCC federal staff, Child Care
and Development Fund (CCDF) administrators, Head Start state and
national collaboration office directors), as well as EHS-CCP grantees
will also find helpful information on partnerships through NCEHS-CCP's
resources.
NCEHS-CCP at ZERO TO THREE is proposing to conduct a descriptive
study of NCEHS-CCP that will provide information that will document the
activities and progress of NCEHS-CCP toward its goals and objectives.
Findings from the evaluation will be translated into action steps to
inform continuous quality improvement of NCEHS-CCP.
The proposed data collection activities for the descriptive study
of NCEHS-CCP will include the following components:
Stakeholder survey. Web-based surveys will be conducted in
the spring of 2016 and 2018 with key stakeholders (including regional
T/TA specialists, CCDF administrators, Head Start state and national
collaboration office directors, and implementation planners and fiscal
consultants). The stakeholder survey will collect information about the
types of support they received from
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NCEHS-CCP in the past year, their satisfaction with the support, how
the T/TA informed their work with EHS-CCP grantees, and how support
could be improved.
Stakeholder telephone interviews. Semi-structured
telephone interviews will be conducted in spring of 2017 and 2019 with
a purposively selected group of stakeholders that complete the
stakeholder survey. The interviews will explore in more detail the
types of T/TA support participants received from NCEHS-CCP, how that
support has informed their work with EHS-CCP grantees, their
satisfaction with the support, successes and challenges, and
suggestions for improvement.
A 60-Day Federal Register Notice was published for this study on
October 27, 2015. This 30-Day Federal Register Notice covers the
following data collection activities: (1) Stakeholder survey, and (4)
stakeholder telephone interviews.
Respondents: Respondents include regional T/TA specialists, CCDF
administrators, Head Start state and national collaboration office
directors, and implementation planners and fiscal consultants.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Annual number Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of of responses responses per hours per Total burden
respondents per respondent respondent response hours
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Stakeholder survey.............. 350 1 2 0.5 175
Stakeholder telephone interviews 150 1 1 1.0 75
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 250.
Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20201. Attention Reports Clearance Officer. All requests
should be identified by the title of the information collection. Email
address: [email protected].
OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning the
collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication of
this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best
assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Email:
[email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration
for Children and Families.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-02351 Filed 2-5-16; 8:45 am]
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