Notice2022-02378
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Head Start Connects: A Study of Family Support Services (OMB #0970-0538)
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Published
February 4, 2022
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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 seeks approval to collect information about how Head Start programs coordinate family support services. Information will be collected from Head Start staff members via surveys and focus groups.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 24 (Friday, February 4, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6567-6568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02378]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Head Start Connects: A
Study of Family Support Services (OMB #0970-0538)
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 seeks approval to collect
information about how Head Start programs coordinate family support
services. Information will be collected from Head Start staff members
via surveys and focus groups.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with
the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects
of the information collection described above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of
information and submit comments by emailing
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f4bba4a6b19d9a929b979b98989197809d9b9ab4959792da9c9c87da939b82"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f9b6a9abbc90979f969a9695959c9a8d909697b9989a9fd791918ad79e968f">[email protected]</span></a>. All requests should be identified by
the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The purposes of the data collection for Head Start
Connects are to build knowledge about how Head Start programs (Head
Start or Early Head Start grantees, delegate agencies, and
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staff) coordinate family support services for parents/guardians; the
characteristics of Head Start programs and staff members involved in
family support services coordination; the job characteristics, work
activities, and well-being of Head Start family support services staff
members; and how Head Start programs can improve coordination of family
support services. The data collection will build on information
collected previously through case studies at six Head Start sites (OMB
#0970-0538). Proposed data collection activities include three
components. First, a brief web-based survey of a nationally
representative sample of program directors will collect program
information, including contact information for family and community
partnerships managers and for family support services staff members
needed for other data collection components. Second, an in-depth web-
based survey of family and community partnerships managers identified
by program directors will collect information about Head Start
programs' structures and services for providing supports to parents and
families; and the demographic characteristics, experiences, job
characteristics, and well-being of managers who supervise family
support services staff members. Third, three data collection activities
(referred to as Parts A, B, and C) will gather information from family
support services staff members. Part A, an in-depth web-based survey,
will gather information about the structures and services that Head
Start programs have for providing supports to parents and families; how
family support services staff members reach out to and engage families
in family support services; how family support services staff members
work with families; and the demographic characteristics, experiences,
job characteristics, and well-being of staff members who provide family
support services. Part B, brief web-based surveys, will supplement Part
A and will collect additional information about specific daily work
activities and well-being, providing more fine-grained detail about
workdays of family support services staff members. Part C, focus
groups, will be conducted with a sample of family support services
staff to collect information about innovations and ideas for improving
how Head Start programs coordinate and individualize family support
services.
Respondents: Head Start program directors, Head Start family and
community partnerships managers, and Head Start family support services
staff members.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per
respondents Respondent Average burden Total/ annual
Instrument (total over (total over per response burden (in
request request (in hours) hours)
period) period)
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Survey of Head Start directors.................. 470 1 0.5 235
Survey of Head Start family and community 423 1 1 423
partnerships managers..........................
Survey of Head Start family support services 1,692 1 1 1,692
staff members (Part A).........................
Survey of Head Start family support services 1,692 6 0.1 1,015
staff members (Part B).........................
Focus groups of Head Start family support 60 1 1.25 75
services staff members (Part C)................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,440.
Comments: 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.
Authority: Section 640(a)(2)(D) and section 649 of the Improving
Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-02378 Filed 2-3-22; 8:45 am]
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