Notice2023-13065
Submission for OMB Review; 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
June 20, 2023
Issuing agencies
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 117 (Tuesday, June 20, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39854-39855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13065]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; 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 30 days of publication. The Office of
Management and Budget (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#ee878088818d8182828b8d9a878180ae8f8d88c086869dc0898198"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="60090e060f030f0c0c050314090f0e200103064e0808134e070f16">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all emailed 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
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information on the families being served under the Tribal MIECHV
Program;
<bullet> Collect the number of newly enrolled and continuing
families being served;
<bullet> Collect the 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 and the 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 Grantees.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Total number Annual number Average
Instrument of of responses burden hours Annual burden
respondents per respondent per response hours
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Tribal MIECHV Demographic and Service 55 1 317 17,435
Utilization Data Form..........................
Tribal MIECHV Demographic & Service Utilization 1,668 1 .233 389
Data Report (Families).........................
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.
Authority: Section 511 of title V of the Social Security Act.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-13065 Filed 6-16-23; 8:45 am]
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