Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation: Long-Term Follow-Up, Third Grade Data Collection (Office of Management and Budget #0970-0402)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation: Long-Term Follow-Up, Third Grade Data Collection (Office of Management and Budget #0970-0402)

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.

SUMMARY:

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration, both of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing to collect data as part of the elementary school phase of the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE). MIHOPE is a longitudinal study of the effects of Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV)-funded home visiting on child and family outcomes. The purpose of the MIHOPE Long-Term Follow-Up, Third grade (MIHOPE-3G) data collection, which will focus on children when they are in approximately third grade, is to assess the long-term effects of MIECHV-funded home visiting on families and children when participating children are in elementary school.

DATES:

Comments due within 30 days of publication. The Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) must make a decision 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:

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.

Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function. You can also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by emailing

OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.

Identify all requests by the title of the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Description:

To date, MIHOPE has been collecting data through the time children in the study were in approximately kindergarten. The currently approved materials under this OMB number include those for the kindergarten follow-up. The kindergarten direct data collection with study participants is complete, but some administrative data are still being collected from states and local education agencies.

This request is to complete administrative data collection for the kindergarten follow-up and to conduct the following data collection activities for MIHOPE-3G: (1) child welfare records data collection from states and (2) school records data collection from states and local education agencies. Future information collection requests and related

Federal Register

notices will describe future data collection efforts for this project.

Data collected during the third grade follow-up study is being used to estimate the effects of MIECHV-funded programs on the following seven domains: (1) maternal health, (2) child health, (3) child development and school performance, (4) child maltreatment, (5) parenting, (6) crime or domestic violence, and (7) family economic self-sufficiency.

Respondents:

For MIHOPE-3G, we will seek to obtain child welfare data from 11 states and school records data from up to 48 states and local education agencies. This data will be collected for 4,105 families who are currently participating in MIHOPE.

Annual Burden Estimates

Instrument

Number of

respondents

(total over

request

period)

Number of

responses per

respondent

(total over

request

period)

Avg. burden

per response

(in hours)

Total

burden

(in hours)

Annual

burden

(in hours)

Remaining Burden for Kindergarten Follow-up

State and local education agency school records: data file submission

8

1

15.6

125

42

State child welfare records: data file submission

5

1

8.4

42

14

New Request for MIHOPE-3G

State and local education agency school records: data file submission

48

2

33.75

3,240

1,080

State child welfare records: data file submission

11

a

2.1

21.43

495

165

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:

1,301.

Note:

The 2.1 responses is a weighted average that reflects that the study team expects to collect 2 data extracts from 10 states and 3 data extracts from 1 state.

Authority:

Social Security Act Title V 511 [42 U.S.C. 711]. As amended by Section 6101 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328).

Mary B. Jones,

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.

[FR Doc. 2023-15075 Filed 7-14-23; 8:45 am]

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