Notice2024-20953
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program Performance Analysis Study-Extension (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #0970-0536)
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Published
September 16, 2024
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) and the Family and Youth Services Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) request an extension without changes of a currently approved information collection activity as part of the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program Performance Analysis Study (PAS). The goal of the study is to collect, analyze, and report on performance measures data for the SRAE program (OMB Control No. 0970-0536; expiration date 1/31/2025). The purpose of the requested extension is to continue the ongoing data collection and submission of the performance measures by SRAE grant recipients.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 179 (Monday, September 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75542-75543]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-20953]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Sexual Risk Avoidance
Education Program Performance Analysis Study--Extension (Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) #0970-0536)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) and
the Family and Youth Services Bureau in the Administration for Children
and Families (ACF) request an extension without changes of a currently
approved information collection activity as part of the Sexual Risk
Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program Performance Analysis Study (PAS).
The goal of the study is to collect, analyze, and report on performance
measures data for the SRAE program (OMB Control No. 0970-0536;
expiration date 1/31/2025). The purpose of the requested extension is
to continue the ongoing data collection and submission of the
performance measures by SRAE grant recipients.
DATES: Comments due November 15, 2024. In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects
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of the information collection described above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of
information and submit comments by emailing
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0f405f5d4a666169606c6063636a6c7b6660614f6e6c692167677c21686079"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81ced1d3c4e8efe7eee2eeedede4e2f5e8eeefc1e0e2e7afe9e9f2afe6eef7">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the title of
the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The purpose of the SRAE program is to educate youth on
how to voluntarily refrain from nonmarital sexual activity and prevent
other youth risk behaviors. Data will continue to be used to determine
if the SRAE grant recipients are meeting performance benchmarks related
to their program's mission and priorities.
The SRAE PAS collects performance measures data from SRAE grant
recipients, program providers, and participants. The data include
information on program structure, cost, and support for implementation;
program attendance, reach, and dosage; the characteristics of youth
involved in programming; youth sexual and other risky behavior prior to
program participation; and youth sexual and other risky behavior
intentions at program exit. The performance measures help the ACF
program office and grant recipients to monitor and report on progress
in implementing SRAE programs and inform technical assistance.
Some of the performance measures data come from youth participants
through surveys SRAE grant recipients administer at program entry and
exit. There are separate versions of the entry and exit surveys for
middle school youth, which exclude some of the more sensitive items
that are included in the versions for high school and older youth.
There is also a shorter version of the entry survey for programs
conducting impact studies, to reduce the burden on participants in
those programs who are likely responding to other surveys as part of
their impact study. Although there was a version of the exit survey for
programs conducting impact studies in the past, it was removed through
the previous OMB request, and youth in these programs now complete the
same version of the exit survey as other youth.
ACF is currently working on future revisions to this information
collection, which will be submitted to OMB for review and approval in
2025. Notices inviting public comment on those revisions will accompany
that request, but comments received in response to this notice could
also inform those revisions.
Respondents: General Departmental (GDSRAE), State (SSRAE), and
Competitive (CSRAE) grant recipients, their subrecipients, and program
participants.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per Average burden Total/ annual
Instrument respondents respondent per response burden (in
(total over (total over (in hours) hours)
request period) request period)
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(1) Participant Entry Survey:
GDSRAE participants....................... 126,130 1 0.1333 16,813
SSRAE participants........................ 317,633 1 0.1333 42,340
CSRAE participants........................ 20,136 1 0.1333 2,684
(2) Participant Exit Survey:
GDSRAE participants....................... 100,904 1 0.1667 16,821
SSRAE participants........................ 254,106 1 0.1667 42,360
CSRAE participants........................ 16,109 1 0.1667 2,685
(3) Performance reporting data entry form:
grant recipients:
GDSRAE grant recipients................... 119 2 16 3,808
SSRAE grant recipients.................... 39 2 16 1,248
CSRAE grant recipients.................... 34 2 16 1,088
(4) Performance reporting data entry form:
subrecipients:
GDSRAE subrecipients...................... 252 2 13 6,552
SSRAE subrecipients....................... 426 2 13 11,076
CSRAE subrecipients....................... 63 2 13 1,638
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 149,113.
Comments: The Department specifically requests comments on (a)
whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Authority: 42 U.S.C 1310.
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-20953 Filed 9-13-24; 8:45 am]
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