Notice2023-22676
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Evaluation of Resources To Support the Identification and Care of Children With Prenatal Substance or Alcohol Exposure in the Child Welfare System (Office of Management and Budget #0970-0608)
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Published
October 13, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Children's Bureau (CB), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is proposing to collect data for an evaluation of a set of resources that are being developed to support the identification and care of children with prenatal substance or alcohol exposure in the child welfare system.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 197 (Friday, October 13, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70992-70993]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-22676]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Evaluation
of Resources To Support the Identification and Care of Children With
Prenatal Substance or Alcohol Exposure in the Child Welfare System
(Office of Management and Budget #0970-0608)
AGENCY: Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families,
United States Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Children's Bureau (CB), Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is
proposing to collect data for an evaluation of a set of resources that
are being developed to support the identification and care of children
with prenatal substance or alcohol exposure in the child welfare
system.
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">http://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#8be2e5ede4e8e4e7e7eee8ffe2e4e5cbeae8eda5e3e3f8a5ece4fd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f59c9b939a969a99999096819c9a9bb5949693db9d9d86db929a83">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all emailed requests by
the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: Materials to begin this proposed information
collection effort were initially approved in April 2023. The study is
gathering data from end users of a toolkit of resources sponsored by CB
in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
under an interagency agreement. The toolkit is intended to support
child welfare agency staff in the identification and support of
children living with prenatal exposure to alcohol and other substances.
The data collected will be used in a formative evaluation of the
toolkit, which will be guided by 3 research questions: (1) To what
degree do agency staff find toolkit resource to be relevant and
applicable to their work?; (2) To what degree do toolkit resources
change agency staff attitudes and increase staff knowledge?; (3) What
implementation approaches and organizational supports facilitate
toolkit use by child welfare agencies? Data sources for this effort
include 5 surveys that have been approved for use: (1) a survey to
measure users' reactions to the toolkit; (2) a survey of users'
attitudes toward prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE)-related issues; (3) a
survey of users' knowledge about PAE-related issues; and (4 and 5) two
versions of a survey of transfer potential and perceived competence,
which measures users' sense of competence in PAE-related knowledge and
skills and the extent to which users believe they will transfer
knowledge/skills to their work. One version of this instrument contains
the full survey and will be administered after users have been exposed
to the full toolkit and its resources. The second version contains a
smaller selection of key items from the survey, tailored to collect
information from users after their exposure to each of 5 key modules of
the toolkit. Newly proposed data collection will include (6) one focus
group to assess user perspectives on changes to practice as a result of
implementation and fit of the toolkit with the agency's diversity,
equity, and inclusion efforts. All data will be collected in 2024 over
the course of 6-9 months.
Respondents: Child welfare professionals, including state and/or
county-level directors of child welfare agencies; supervisors; program
staff (e.g., investigation/intake, case management, foster care/
adoption/permanency, etc.); staff working in specialist roles that
align with toolkit resources (e.g., data/quality improvement
specialists); local or state agency managers involved in determining
agency strategic plans and practice guidance (e.g., substance-exposed
newborn program manager); training system lead staff.
Annual Burden Estimates
There are no updates to the burden estimates for previously
approved instruments. This request adds the burden for the one new
focus group protocol on implementation.
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Total number Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses hours per Annual burden
of respondents per respondent response hours
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Survey of reactions to the toolkit.............. 32 1 .05 2
Survey of attitudes............................. 32 2 .17 11
Survey of PAE-related knowledge................. 32 3 .27 26
Survey of transfer potential and perceived 32 1 .09 3
competency.....................................
Module-specific transfer potential and perceived 32 5 .03 5
competency items...............................
Focus group protocol on implementation.......... 28 1 1.5 42
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 89.
Authority: This information collection is related to and funded by
CB, is authorized by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
Reauthorization Act, 42 U.S.C. 5105, (2010), and is being conducted by
CB. This information collection complies with the statutory requirement
to carry out research designed to provide information needed to improve
the well-being of victims of child abuse or neglect. Specifically, this
information collection complies with the
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requirement for evaluation of practices and programs to improve
activities such as identification, screening, medical diagnosis,
forensic diagnosis, health evaluations, and services, including
activities that promote collaboration between (1) the child protective
service system; and (2) (i) the medical community, including providers
of mental health and developmental disability services; and (ii)
providers of early childhood intervention services and special
education for children who have been victims of child abuse or neglect.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-22676 Filed 10-12-23; 8:45 am]
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