Notice2024-07008
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Home Visiting Assessment of Implementation Quality Study: Exploring Family Voice and Leadership in Home Visiting
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Published
April 3, 2024
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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 23025-23026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07008]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Home Visiting Assessment
of Implementation Quality Study: Exploring Family Voice and Leadership
in 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#2f5f4e5f4a5d58405d446f475d5c4e01484059"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="691908190c1b1e061b0229011b1a08470e061f">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Home Visiting Assessment of
Implementation Quality Study: Exploring Family Voice and Leadership in
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, 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.
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
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visiting programs. One of the three quality components the study will
focus on is family voice and leadership (FVL), which involves including
families in decisions related to program implementation. The requested
information collection will provide a better understanding of how
MIECHV-funded home visiting programs currently engage families and will
provide preliminary information on how FVL may influence home visiting
implementation and program quality. Information collection activities
include two online surveys, focus groups, and interviews.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on December
5, 2023, 88 FR 84339-84340. There was one response to public comment
from a home visiting model developer. The commentor expressed concerns
about the estimated burden for focus group 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 for focus groups and interviews were
increased, and the number of items on the MIECHV Program FVL Online
Survey was reduced. Recommendations for language revisions were
incorporated into the revised information collection tools. An
additional information collection tool was added to this ICR to
facilitate the recruitment of families for participation in a focus
group (Family Focus Group Recruitment Survey). Two form names were also
modified slightly: the Tribal and State MIECHV Administrators Interview
Guide was renamed the MIECHV Lead Interview Guide, and the LIA Program
Staff Focus Group Protocol was renamed the Home Visiting Program Staff
Focus Group Protocol.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA is seeking
additional information about how the MIECHV program engages and
supports families in leadership opportunities to inform and improve
programs. HRSA intends to use this information to identify actionable
strategies that MIECHV awardees and LIAs could take to engage families
meaningfully and effectively in program decisions and to ensure that
families' unique strengths, needs, cultures, and preferences drive
service delivery.
Likely Respondents: MIECHV awardees that are states, nonprofit
organizations, and tribes, LIA staff (program directors, coordinators,
supervisors, and home visitors); and families who have been engaged in
FVL activities by MIECHV-funded home visiting programs.
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. Compared to the versions submitted for the
60-day approval process in December, estimated burden hours have
increased as a result of adding an additional information collection
activity and implementing the feedback provided in public comments
during the 60-day comment period and pre-testing data collection
protocols. The total annual burden hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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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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MIECHV Program FVL Online Survey 1000 1 1000 0.33 330
Family Focus Group Protocol..... 48 1 48 1.50 72
MIECHV Lead Interview Guide..... 12 1 12 1.50 18
Home Visiting Program Staff 48 1 48 1.50 72
Focus Group Protocol...........
Family Focus Group Recruitment 100 1 100 0.08 8
Survey.........................
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Total....................... 1,208 .............. 1,208 .............. 500
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-07008 Filed 4-2-24; 8:45 am]
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