Notice2022-27808
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Case Studies of Child Care and Development Fund Lead Agencies' Consumer Education Strategies (New Collection)
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Published
December 22, 2022
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to collect qualitative data to examine innovative and promising consumer education strategies that Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies are using to help families search for and select child care and early education (CCEE). This information collection aims to present an internally valid description of the experiences of up to six, purposively selected case study sites, not to promote statistical generalization to different sites or service populations.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 245 (Thursday, December 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 78687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27808]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Case
Studies of Child Care and Development Fund Lead Agencies' Consumer
Education Strategies (New Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to
collect qualitative data to examine innovative and promising consumer
education strategies that Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead
Agencies are using to help families search for and select child care
and early education (CCEE). This information collection aims to present
an internally valid description of the experiences of up to six,
purposively selected case study sites, not to promote statistical
generalization to different sites or service populations.
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. You can
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by
emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#034c5351466a6d656c606c6f6f6660776a6c6d436260652d6b6b702d646c75"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f6b9a6a4b39f98909995999a9a9395829f9998b6979590d89e9e85d8919980">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the
title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The Consumer Education and Parental Choice in Early
Care and Education project is proposing to conduct qualitative case
studies to examine consumer education strategies in up to six sites.
Sites will be selected based on a scan of innovative or promising
strategies being used to help parents looking for and selecting CCEE.
In each site, we will conduct interviews with CCDF administrators
and agency staff, consumer education services staff, and other key
informants to collect information on select consumer education
strategies and implementation successes and challenges. We will conduct
focus groups with parents of young children to gather information about
their experiences looking for CCEE.
The study will collect information about (a) the selected consumer
education strategies; (b) implementation successes and challenges; and
(c) parents' experiences looking for CCEE, including the resources they
used and their awareness of and perspectives on state/local consumer
education resources.
Respondents: State, Territory, and Tribal CCDF program
administrators and agency staff, consumer education services staff, key
informants who interact with parents and provide a state/local
perspective, and parents/guardians of children under age 6.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per
respondents respondent Avg. burden Total/annual
Instrument (total over (total over per response burden (in
request request (in hours) hours)
period) period)
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Interview Guide for State, Tribal, and Territory 12 1 1 12
CCDF Administrators............................
Interview Guide for Consumer Education Services 30 1 1 30
Staff..........................................
Key Informant Interview Guide................... 18 1 .75 14
Parent Focus Group Facilitator's Guide.......... 120 1 1.5 180
Focus Group Brief Questionnaire................. 120 1 .1 12
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 248.
Authority: Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of
1990, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.)
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-27808 Filed 12-21-22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-23-P
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