Notice2021-11934
Submission for OMB Review; Evaluation of Project Connect (New Collection)
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Published
June 8, 2021
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing a new information collection to assess the implementation of Project Connect, a comprehensive home visitation intervention that provides home-based services and treatment to child welfare-involved, substance-affected families with children and adolescents ages 0 to 17.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 30463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-11934]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Evaluation of Project Connect (New
Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; Administration
for Children and Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing a new
information collection to assess the implementation of Project Connect,
a comprehensive home visitation intervention that provides home-based
services and treatment to child welfare-involved, substance-affected
families with children and adolescents ages 0 to 17.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a
decision about 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.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The proposed information collection activity will
assess the implementation of Project Connect, a comprehensive home
visitation intervention that provides home-based services and treatment
to child welfare-involved, substance-affected families with children
and adolescents ages 0 to 17. The program aims to strengthen and
address the complex needs of substance-affected families by providing
intensive, long-term services that address issues of unhealthy parental
substance use and provide help for parents recover while keeping
children safe. It focuses on maintaining children safely in their homes
and preventing admission to care, or facilitating reunification when
children have been placed in out-of-home care.
The implementation study will support a planned effectiveness
evaluation that will rely on administrative data to examine the impact
of the program on child welfare outcomes. These information collection
activities will take place over the course of five site visits to the
program and child welfare agency that are participating in the study.
Information collection activities include interviews with program and
child welfare agency administrators, focus groups with program and
child welfare agency staff, interviews and focus groups with
participants, interviews with other program stakeholders, and
observations of program staff meetings, program delivery, and judicial
hearings. Site visits will also include direct observations of staff
delivery of the program, program staff meetings, and relevant judicial
hearings/activities for program families.
This evaluation is part of a larger project to help ACF build the
evidence base in child welfare through rigorous evaluation of programs,
practices, and policies. The activities and products from this project
will contribute to evidence building in child welfare and help to
determine the effectiveness of a substance use program on child welfare
outcomes.
Respondents: Semi-structured interviews will be completed with
agency and program administrators, parents who are participating in the
program, parents receiving services as usual, and other program
stakeholders. Focus groups will be conducted with agency and program
staff and parents who are participating in the program and parents
receiving services as usual.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per Avg. burden per
Instrument respondents respondent response (in Total burden Annual burden
(total over (total over hours) (in hours) (in hours)
request period) request period)
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Interview Guide for Administrators (Project Connect, Child Welfare 14 1 1 14 5
Agency, and Child Welfare Central Referral Unit)..................
Focus Group Guide for Staff (Project Connect and Child Welfare 24 1 1.50 36 12
Agency Staff).....................................................
Interview Guide for Other Stakeholders (Behavioral Health and 12 1 1 12 4
Judicial Stakeholders)............................................
Interview Guide for Families....................................... 16 1 1 16 5
Focus Group Guide for Families..................................... 24 1 1.5 36 12
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 38.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 676.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-11934 Filed 6-7-21; 8:45 am]
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