Notice2024-11489
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Statewide Needs Assessment Update
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Published
May 24, 2024
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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 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45903-45904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11489]
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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: The
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Statewide
Needs Assessment Update
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 July 23,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3d4d5c4d584f4a524f567d554f4e5c135a524b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="235342534651544c5148634b5150420d444c55">[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#5727362732252038253c173f25243679303821"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="84f4e5f4e1f6f3ebf6efc4ecf6f7e5aae3ebf2">[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: The Maternal, Infant, and
Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Statewide Needs Assessment
Update--OMB No. 0906-0038--Revision
Abstract: HRSA is requesting approval to collect amended statewide
needs assessment updates from Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood
Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program awardees. The 2020 statewide needs
assessment update approved under OMB control number 0906-0038 expired
November 30, 2021, and is discontinued. The prior approval was
discontinued as the requirement was for a one-time data collection in
response to the 2018 reauthorizing statute. This request will reinstate
this information collection with no changes. Eligible entities that are
states, jurisdictions, and non-profit organizations submitted statewide
needs assessment updates in response to the 2020 Needs Assessment
Update Supplemental Information Request (SIR) (and a corresponding SIR
for jurisdiction awardees). Eligible entities that wish to amend their
previously submitted needs assessment updates will have the opportunity
to do so prior to submitting their fiscal year 2025 base and matching
grant funding application and in response to new instructions provided
by the agency for this purpose.
The MIECHV Program, authorized by section 511 of the Social
Security Act, 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 to parents
with young children up to kindergarten entry. States, jurisdictions,
and tribal entities, and nonprofit organizations, in certain
circumstances, are eligible to receive funding through MIECHV and have
the flexibility, within the parameters of the authorizing statute, to
tailor the program to serve the specific needs of their communities.
The statewide needs assessment is a critical and foundational
resource that assists awardees in identifying and understanding how to
meet the needs of eligible families living in at-risk communities in
their states.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Congress, through
enactment of the Social Security Act, Title V, Section 511 (42 U.S.C.
711), as amended, established the MIECHV Program. The MIECHV Program is
designed to: (1) strengthen and improve the programs and activities
carried out under Title V of the Social Security Act; (2) improve
coordination of services for at risk communities; and (3) identify and
provide comprehensive services to improve outcomes for families who
reside in at risk communities. Section 511(b)(1) of the Social Security
Act requires that states review and update their statewide needs
assessments (which may be separate from, but in coordination with, the
Title V statewide needs assessment) no later than October 1, 2020, as a
condition of receiving payments from Title V Block Grant allotments.
Since completing the needs assessment update, state and jurisdiction
awardees may wish to amend their needs assessment update to identify
communities where families with the most need are located in their
state or jurisdiction.
In response to the 2020 Needs Assessment Update SIR, state and
jurisdiction awardees were required to submit an updated statewide
needs assessment that identified all the following information, as
required by the MIECHV authorizing statute:
(1) Communities with concentrations of (a) premature birth, low-
birth weight infants, and infant mortality, including infant death due
to neglect, or other indicators of at-risk prenatal, maternal, newborn,
or child health; (b) poverty; (c) crime; (d) domestic violence; (e)
high rates of high-school drop-outs; (f) substance abuse; (g)
unemployment; or (h) child maltreatment.
(2) The quality and capacity of existing programs or initiatives
for early childhood home visitation in the state including: the number
and types of individuals and families who are receiving services under
such programs or initiatives; the gaps in early childhood home
visitation in the state; and the extent to which such programs or
initiatives are meeting the needs of eligible families.
(3) The state's capacity for providing substance abuse treatment
and counseling services to individuals and families in need of such
treatment or services.
The SIR provided guidance to states in updating their statewide
needs assessments and submitting the required information to HRSA.
States that elected not to apply or be awarded MIECHV funds were
encouraged to work with nonprofit organizations that received awards to
provide MIECHV services within the state and indicate whether they will
submit their needs assessments directly or through the nonprofit
organization awardee. HRSA and recipients providing MIECHV services
within states used the information collected through the needs
assessment update to reaffirm the provision of MIECHV home visiting
services in at-risk communities. The information is also used to
support program planning, improvement, and decision-making. States
wishing to amend their needs assessment will be asked to provide new
information and supporting data. HRSA will provide specific
instructions to awardees who request to amend their needs assessment
update in advance of their fiscal year 2025 funding application. HRSA
is not proposing any changes to the previously approved Needs
Assessment SIR.
Likely Respondents: MIECHV Program Awardees that are states,
jurisdictions, and, where applicable, nonprofit organizations providing
services within states.
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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. Burden hours reflect that
existing needs assessments will be amended rather than fully developed.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours:
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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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Maternal, Infant, and Early 35 1 35 30 1,050
Childhood Home Visiting Program
Statewide Needs Assessment
Update--Amended................
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Total....................... 35 .............. 35 .............. 1,050
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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. 2024-11489 Filed 5-23-24; 8:45 am]
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