Notice2024-06991
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
April 3, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this notice has closed.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23030-23031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06991]
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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 Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than May 3,
2024.
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 Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f58594859087829a879eb59d878694db929a83"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c1b1a0b1a4b3b6aeb3aa81a9b3b2a0efa6aeb7">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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
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Social Security Act, Title V, Sec. 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.
HRSA aims to explore how families that experience disparities in
outcomes targeted by the MIECHV program experience home visiting
services. This study 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.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on December
5, 2023, vol. 88, No. 84339; pp. 84341-42. HRSA received one response
to the request for public comment from a home visiting model developer.
The commentor expressed concerns about the estimated burden for focus
groups and the request for information from programs and over surveying
families, suggesting using previously collected data, and made
suggestions for language changes including use of plain language,
clarifying instructions, and providing questions in advance. In
response to these comments, the burden hours were increased for focus
groups, clarifying instructions were added to the LIA Leadership
Interview Protocol and edits were made to plain language. The burden
estimate was not increased for the information form for LIAs as it did
not fall under the definition for public burden. The suggestion of
using information already collected from families was not taken as
there is not currently existing data of this nature. In addition,
Family Focus Group Protocol and Family Case Study Focus Group Protocol
have been combined to one form as the protocols were similar.
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. This information collection is part of the
Home Visiting Assessment of Implementation Quality Study, which will
examine specific components of the Home Visiting Implementation Quality
Conceptual Framework, to inform strategies for implementing high
quality home visiting programs. 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 awardees that are states, nonprofit
organizations, and tribes; LIA staff (program directors, coordinators,
supervisors, and home visitors); and families that experience greater
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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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Request for Information about 56 1 56 0.25 14.0
LIAs...........................
LIA and Family Nomination Form.. 70 1 70 2.00 140.0
Family Online Survey............ 210 1 210 0.33 69.3
Family Focus Group Protocol..... 64 1 64 1.00 64.0
Home Visitor Group Interview 10 1 10 1.50 15.0
Protocol.......................
LIA Leadership Interview 6 1 6 1.50 9.0
Protocol.......................
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Total....................... 416 .............. 416 .............. 311.3
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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.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-06991 Filed 4-2-24; 8:45 am]
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