Notice2025-23078
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program Performance Analysis Study
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December 17, 2025
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Abstract
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) and the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) request approval for a temporary extension of currently approved information collection activities and revisions to be implemented in 2026 for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program Performance Analysis Study (PAS)(Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0536; expiration date December 31, 2025). The goal of the study is to collect, analyze and report on performance measures data for the SRAE program. The purpose of the request is to continue the ongoing data collection and submission of the performance measures by SRAE grant recipients. Revisions are proposed to the current performance measures, for implementation in July 2026, to address feedback from grant recipients to simplify and clarify participant surveys and to ensure the measures meet FYSB data needs.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58567-58568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23078]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #: 0970-0536]
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Sexual
Risk Avoidance Education Program Performance Analysis Study
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, U.S. 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 (FYSB) in the Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) request approval for a temporary extension
of currently approved information collection activities and revisions
to be implemented in 2026 for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education
(SRAE) Program Performance Analysis Study (PAS)(Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0536; expiration date December 31, 2025). The
goal of the study is to collect, analyze and report on performance
measures data for the SRAE program. The purpose of the request is to
continue the ongoing data collection and submission of the performance
measures by SRAE grant recipients. Revisions are proposed to the
current performance measures, for implementation in July 2026, to
address feedback from grant recipients to simplify and clarify
participant surveys and to ensure the measures meet FYSB data needs.
DATES: Comments due January 16, 2026. OMB must decide about the
collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication of
this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best
assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
ADDRESSES: The public may view and comment on this information
collection request at: <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202512-0970-004">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202512-0970-004</a>. You can also obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information by emailing
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1b544b495e72757d74787477777e786f7274755b7a787d35737368357c746d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="88c7d8dacde1e6eee7ebe7e4e4edebfce1e7e6c8e9ebeea6e0e0fba6efe7fe">[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 their programs' mission and
priorities.
The SRAE performance measures are collected 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.
For continuity, ACF proposes to use the currently approved
materials through June 2026, after which revised versions of the
performance measures would be implemented. This phased in approach will
ease the transition for grant recipients by providing them with ample
time for implementation and will allow for data consistency by not
changing measures in the middle of a data collection year. The proposed
revisions to the current performance measures address feedback from
grant recipients to simplify and clarify participant surveys and ensure
the measures meet FYSB data needs. The proposed revisions to the
participant surveys were cognitively tested with program participants
for clarity and to check burden estimates. The changes reduce the
burden for completing the participant entry survey from 8 minutes to 5
minutes per response and the participant exit survey from 10 to 7
minutes. Overall, we expect a 61 percent reduction in the annual burden
hours under this request compared to the previously approved annual
burden.
Respondents: General Departmental (GDSRAE), State (SSRAE), and
Competitive (CSRAE) grant recipients, their subrecipients, and program
participants.
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Number of responses Average
Number of per respondent burden per Annual
Instrument respondents (total (total over request response (in burden (in
over request period) period) hours) hours)
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Burden Estimates--Through June 2026
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1. Participant Entry Survey.............. 104,606 1 0.1333 13,944
2 Participant Exit Survey................ 81,854 1 0.1667 13,645
3. Performance Reporting Data Entry Form. 190 1 16 3,040
4. Subrecipient Data Collection and 490 1 13 6,370
Reporting Form..........................
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Estimated total and annual burden hour estimates through June 2026............................. 36,999
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Number of
Number of responses per Average Annual
Instrument respondents respondent burden per Total burden burden (in
(total over (total over response (in (in hours) hours)
request period) request period) hours)
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Annual Burden Estimates--July 2026 Forward
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1. Participant Entry Survey.... 523,030 1 0.0833 43,568 17,427
2. Participant Exit Survey..... 409,270 1 0.1167 47,762 19,105
3. Performance Reporting Data 190 5 16 15,200 6,080
Entry Form....................
4. Subrecipient Data Collection 490 5 13 31,850 12,740
and Reporting Form............
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Estimated total and annual burden hours July 2026 forward........................ 138,380 55,352
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Total Annual Burden Estimates
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Estimated total and annual burden hours.......................................... 175,379 58,460
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 710(b)(6).
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-23078 Filed 12-16-25; 8:45 am]
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