Notice2023-07462
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Data Reports: Demographic and Service Utilization, Grantee Performance Measures and Quarterly Performance Reports
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Published
April 10, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is requesting a new information collection for the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Tribal Home Visiting Program Data Reports: Demographic and Service Utilization, Grantee Performance Measures and Quarterly Performance Reports.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 68 (Monday, April 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21192-21193]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-07462]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Tribal Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Data Reports:
Demographic and Service Utilization, Grantee Performance Measures and
Quarterly Performance Reports
AGENCY: Office of Early Childhood Development; Administration for
Children and Families; Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is
requesting a new information collection for the Tribal Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Tribal Home Visiting
Program Data Reports: Demographic and Service Utilization, Grantee
Performance Measures and Quarterly Performance Reports.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with
the requirements 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#1b72757d74787477777e786f7274755b7a787d35737368357c746d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81e8efe7eee2eeedede4e2f5e8eeefc1e0e2e7afe9e9f2afe6eef7">[email protected]</span></a>.
Identify all requests by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: Section 511 of Title V of the Social Security Act
created the MIECHV Program and authorizes the Secretary of the United
States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to
Indian tribes (or a consortium of Indian tribes), tribal organizations,
or urban Indian organizations to conduct an early childhood home
visiting program. The legislation set aside 6 percent of the total
MIECHV program appropriation for grants to tribal entities. Tribal
MIECHV grants, to the greatest extent practicable, are to be consistent
with the requirements of the MIECHV grants to states and jurisdictions
and include conducting a needs assessment and establishing
quantifiable, measurable benchmarks.
The ACF Office of Early Childhood Development (ECD), in
collaboration with the Health Resources and Services Administration,
Maternal and Child Health Bureau, awards grants for the Tribal MIECHV
Program. The Tribal MIECHV grant awards support 5-year cooperative
agreements to conduct community needs assessments, plan for and
implement high-quality, culturally grounded, evidence-based home
visiting programs in at-risk Tribal communities, and participate in
research and evaluation activities to build the knowledge base on home
visiting among Native populations.
In Year 1 of the cooperative agreement, grantees must (1) conduct a
comprehensive community needs and readiness assessment and (2) develop
a plan to respond to identified needs. Following each year that Tribal
MIECHV grantees implement home visiting services; they must comply with
the requirement to submit demographic and service utilization data once
they begin to provide services, and then on an annual basis. Grantees
also begin to report quarterly on caseloads and family and staff
retention and submit performance data in years 2-5 of their cooperative
agreements. Tribal MIECHV Program data are used to help ACF better
understand the population receiving services from Tribal MIECHV
grantees, the degree to which they are using services, as well as
staffing data to better understand the Tribal MIECHV workforce. This
includes demographic and service utilization data on the number of
newly enrolled and continuing participants, educational level and
poverty status of participants, education level of staff, number of
home visits and grantee caseload capacity and retention of families and
staff. Performance reporting on the six legislatively mandated areas
(referred to as ``benchmark areas'') will document grantee improvement
in the benchmark areas over time and will allow new cohorts of grantees
to reflect on their performance to make program improvements or to
document implementation of services successfully that encompass the
major goals of the program.
ACF will use Tribal Home Visiting Data Reports to:
<bullet> Collect demographic and service utilization that provides
vital information on the families being served under the Tribal MIECHV
Program;
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<bullet> Collect the number of newly enrolled and continuing
families being served;
<bullet> Number of home visits;
<bullet> Track and improve the quality of benchmark measures data
submitted by the tribal grantees;
<bullet> Improve program monitoring and oversight;
<bullet> Improve rigorous data analyses that help to assess the
effectiveness of the programs and enable ACF to better monitor
projects;
<bullet> Ensure adequate and timely reporting of program data to
relevant federal agencies and stakeholders including Congress and
members of the public; and
<bullet> Collect data on caseload capacity, retention and attrition
of enrolled families and the retention and attrition of program staff
on a quarterly basis.
Overall, this information collection will provide valuable
information to HHS that will guide understanding of the Tribal MIECHV
Program and the provision of technical assistance to Tribal MIECHV
Program grantees.
Respondents: Tribal MIECHV Program Grantees.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Annual number Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses hours per Annual burden
of respondents per respondent response hours
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Tribal MIECHV Demographic and Service 55 1 317 17,435
Utilization Data Form..........................
Tribal MIECHV Performance Measures Form......... 55 1 288 15,840
Tribal MIECHV Quarterly Performance Report...... 55 4 2.5 550
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 33,825.
Comments: HHS 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 511 of Title V of the Social Security Act
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-07462 Filed 4-7-23; 8:45 am]
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