Notice2023-26580
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Home Visiting Assessment of Implementation Quality Study: Better Addressing Disparities Through Home Visiting
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Published
December 5, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 5, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84341-84342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-26580]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Home
Visiting Assessment of Implementation Quality Study: Better Addressing
Disparities Through Home Visiting
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than February
5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2c5c4d5c495e5b435e476c445e5f4d024b435a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2656475643545149544d664e54554708414950">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b0c0d1c0d5c2c7dfc2dbf0d8c2c3d19ed7dfc6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="611100110413160e130a21091312004f060e17">[email protected]</span></a> or call Joella Roland, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Home Visiting Assessment of
Implementation Quality Study: Better Addressing Disparities through
Home Visiting, OMB No. 0915-xxxx--[NEW]
Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) Program, authorized by Social Security Act, title V, section
511 (42 U.S.C. 711) and administered by HRSA in partnership with the
Administration for Children and Families, supports voluntary, evidence-
based home visiting services during pregnancy and for parents with
young children up to kindergarten entry. States, tribal entities, and
certain nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive funding from
the MIECHV Program and have the flexibility to tailor the program to
serve the specific needs of their communities. Funding recipients may
subaward grant funds to local implementing agencies (LIAs) to provide
home visiting services to eligible families in at-risk communities.
Through the Home Visiting Assessment of Implementation Quality
Study, HRSA aims to examine specific components of the Home Visiting
Implementation Quality Conceptual Framework to inform strategies for
implementing high quality home visiting programs. One of the three
quality components the study will focus on is addressing disparities.
HRSA will explore how families that experience disparities in outcomes
targeted by the MIECHV Program experience home visiting services. The
requested information collection is an initial step in understanding
those experiences and will provide a better understanding of how
MIECHV-funded home visiting programs currently address disparities and
promote equity. Data collection activities include interviews, focus
groups, online surveys, program observations, and review of documents
and management information systems data.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA is seeking
additional information about families' experiences within home visiting
and strategies the MIECHV Program has used to address disparities in
their work with families. HRSA intends to use this information to
identify actionable strategies that MIECHV awardees and LIAs could take
to remove potential obstacles to family enrollment in home visiting
services and to help address health disparities.
Likely Respondents: MIECHV Program awardees that are states,
nonprofit organizations, and tribes; LIA staff (program directors,
coordinators, supervisors, and home visitors); and families that
experience greater
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disparities in maternal and newborn health (families participating in
MIECHV-funded home visiting services).
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours \1\
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Request for Information about 28 1 28 0.25 7
LIAs...........................
LIA and Family Nomination Form.. 70 1 70 2.00 140
Family Online Survey............ 210 1 210 0.50 105
Family Focus Group Protocol..... 52 1 52 1.00 52
Home Visitor Group Interview 10 1 10 1.00 10
Protocol.......................
LIA Leadership Interview 6 1 6 1.00 6
Protocol.......................
Family Case Study Focus Group 12 1 12 1.00 12
Protocol.......................
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Total....................... 388 .............. 388 .............. 332
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\1\ There may be variation in the number of study participants (e.g., some programs may have fewer home
visitors). The total burden hours presented here provide information assuming the maximum number of
respondents in each community.
HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-26580 Filed 12-4-23; 8:45 am]
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