Notice2021-17263
Submission for OMB Review; Data Collection for the Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives: A Continuous Quality Improvement Approach in the Child Welfare System Project (New Collection)
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Published
August 12, 2021
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is proposing to conduct data collection activities for the Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives: A Continuous Quality Improvement Approach in the Child Welfare System (FCL) Project. This evaluation is a descriptive study of child welfare agencies' use of a continuous quality improvement process called the Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) to implement strategies to improve father and paternal relative engagement in the child welfare system. The project is designed to examine the use of the BSC methodology to strengthen fathers' and paternal relatives' engagement with children involved in child welfare and to add to the evidence base on engagement strategies for fathers and paternal relatives in child welfare.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 153 (Thursday, August 12, 2021)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-17263]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Data Collection for the Engaging
Fathers and Paternal Relatives: A Continuous Quality Improvement
Approach in the Child Welfare System Project (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 Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within
the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is proposing to
conduct data collection activities for the Engaging Fathers and
Paternal Relatives: A Continuous Quality Improvement Approach in the
Child Welfare System (FCL) Project. This evaluation is a descriptive
study of child welfare agencies' use of a continuous quality
improvement process called the Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC)
to implement strategies to improve father and paternal relative
engagement in the child welfare system. The project is designed to
examine the use of the BSC methodology to strengthen fathers' and
paternal relatives' engagement with children involved in child welfare
and to add to the evidence base on engagement strategies for fathers
and paternal relatives in child welfare.
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 FCL evaluation has three equally important aims.
The first is to describe promising strategies and approaches for
engaging fathers and paternal relatives in the child welfare system.
The second is to assess the promise of the BSC as a continuous quality
improvement framework for addressing challenges in the child welfare
system, including whether and to what extent the BSC has potential, and
if so, how it may be applied to other child welfare challenges. The
third is to assess the extent to which agencies experienced a shift in
organizational culture in terms of the importance of father engagement.
The descriptive evaluation will build on the findings of the pilot
study conducted under the umbrella generic: Formative Data Collections
for ACF Program Support (OMB #0970-0531). (Site selection for the pilot
study was conducted under the umbrella generic: Formative Data
Collections for ACF Research (OMB #0970-0356). It will focus on
organizational changes and network supports for father and paternal
relative engagement, changes in staff attitudes and skills for engaging
fathers and paternal relatives, and father and paternal relative
engagement outcomes. This evaluation will explore the implementation of
father and paternal relative engagement strategies and approaches by
examining process outcomes. By examining process outcomes, the
evaluation is designed to indicate whether strategies and approaches
developed in the BSC are likely to lead to placement stability and
permanency outcomes.
Data collection will take place with stakeholders in five child
welfare agencies implementing the BSC (including one agency that had
two separate teams participate in the earlier pilot study). Data
collection activities include discussions with participating agency
staff and key partners during site visits, focus groups or interviews
with fathers and paternal relatives with relatively recent experience
with the focal child welfare agencies, and web surveys of participating
agency staff.
Respondents: Child welfare agency leaders, child welfare agency
program staff and key partner staff involved in implementing the
engagement strategies; community stakeholders whose role has
intersected with the child welfare agency and who have an interest in
father and paternal relative engagement; and, father and paternal
relative clients of the agencies. Program staff may include senior
leaders, managers, and frontline staff.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per
respondents respondent Avg. burden Total burden Annual burden
Instrument (total over (total over per response (in hours) (in hours)
request request (in hours)
period) period)
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Interview topic guide................................................... 230 1 1.5 345 173
Father and paternal relative focus group protocol....................... 72 1 1.5 108 54
Staff survey............................................................ 360 2 0.333 240 120
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 347.
Authority:
Sec. 403. [42 U.S.C. 603] and Sec. 426. [42 U.S.C. 626]
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-17263 Filed 8-11-21; 8:45 am]
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