Notice2023-15555
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (New Collection)
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July 24, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to collect information to examine a promising strategy to support the child care and early education (CCEE) workforce in Colorado as part of the Building and Sustaining the CCEE Workforce BASE project. This project aims to build evidence about workforce development strategies designed to promote, retain, and advance the CCEE workforce by improving the economic well- being of CCEE workers.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 140 (Monday, July 24, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47507-47508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15555]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Building
and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (New
Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, United States Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) at the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services is proposing to collect information to
examine a promising strategy to support the child care and early
education (CCEE) workforce in Colorado as part of the Building and
Sustaining the CCEE Workforce BASE project. This project aims to build
evidence about workforce development strategies designed to promote,
retain, and advance the CCEE workforce by improving the economic well-
being of CCEE workers.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. 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#66293634230f08000905090a0a0305120f090826070500480e0e1548010910"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="93dcc3c1d6fafdf5fcf0fcfffff6f0e7fafcfdd3f2f0f5bdfbfbe0bdf4fce5">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the
title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: As part of the BASE project, OPRE is evaluating the
implementation, impacts, and costs of two initiatives designed to
improve the wages and economic well-being of the CCEE workforce in
Colorado. Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) is implementing
two initiatives to improve the compensation and economic well-being of
the CCEE workforce: (1) eligible CCEE center-based settings are
randomly selected through a lottery process, and (2) eligible home-
based CCEE settings receive additional funding and supports. OPRE
proposes to collect survey, interview, and cost data to understand: (a)
the implementation and costs of the initiatives, (b) the effects of the
initiative for teachers in center-based CCEE settings, and (c) the
experiences of directors and teachers in center-based CCEE settings and
owners and caregivers in home-based CCEE settings with the initiatives.
The study will include CCEE workers who are offered the initiatives and
those who are not, as assigned through CDEC's lottery, and key
informants who are involved in the design and implementation of CDEC's
initiatives. The effectiveness of the initiative will be determined by
differences between members of the intervention and control groups for
hypothesized outcomes in center-based CCEE settings. The experiences of
directors/owners, teachers, and caregivers in center-based and home-
based CCEE settings with the initiatives will be explored with
qualitative and descriptive analyses. OPRE and Colorado are
collaborating to evaluate the two initiatives. Colorado will collect
baseline survey data and share it with OPRE. OPRE will collect follow-
up surveys and interviews. Study participants will complete follow-up
surveys approximately 9 and 18 months after the initiatives begin to
understand how strategies that aim to improve compensation might
improve outcomes such as workforce recruitment, retention, and economic
and psychological well-being, as well as to capture contextual
information about CCEE settings' working conditions and job demands and
supports. Interviews will be conducted approximately 6 to 9 months
after the initiatives began with center-based teachers/home-based
caregivers and center-based directors/home-based owners to capture
their experiences with the initiatives, perceptions, attitudes, beliefs
about the initiatives, and how these experiences may shape the
viability and implementation of the initiatives. Interviews with key
informants at state-
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level implementing agencies will collect qualitative data to understand
contextual factors and the impetus behind the design and implementation
of the initiatives. Finally, cost workbooks completed by center-based
CCEE setting administrators will collect cost data to assess the costs
associated with implementing the initiative. This information
collection will support ACF and the CCEE field in understanding whether
workforce support strategies that increase compensation affect the
retention and well-being of the CCEE workforce. This information will
help to inform federal, state, and local initiatives to build and
retain a qualified CCEE workforce.
Respondents: CCEE center-based directors, administrators, teachers;
CCEE home-based owners and caregivers; CCEE key informants.
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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1. Follow-up center director 75 2 0.75 113 75
survey.........................
2. Follow-up lead and assistant 1,000 2 0.75 1,500 1,000
teacher survey.................
3. Follow-up home-based owner 95 2 0.75 143 95
and caregiver survey...........
4. One-on-one center director 15 1 1 15 10
interview......................
5. One-on-one lead and assistant 25 1 1 25 17
teacher interview..............
6. One-on-one home-based owner 25 1 1.5 38 25
and caregiver interview........
7. One-on-one key informant 5 1 1 5 3
interview......................
8. Center-based setting costs 16 1 5 80 53
workbook.......................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,278.
Authority: Head Start Act 640 [42 U.S.C. 9835] and 649 [42 U.S.C.
9844]; appropriated by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022.
Head Start Act as amended by the Improving Head Start for School
Readiness Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110 134).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-15555 Filed 7-21-23; 8:45 am]
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