[Federal Register: January 15, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 10)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of the Infant Adoption Awareness
Training Program for Projects Initially Funded in Fiscal Year 2006.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
Children's Bureau (CB), will conduct the Cross-Site Evaluation of the
Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program (IAATP). Title XII, Subtitle
A, of the Children's Health Act of 2000 (CHA) authorizes the Department
of Health and Human Services to make Infant Adoption Awareness Training
grants available to national, regional, and local adoption
organizations for the purposes of developing and implementing programs
that train the staff of public and non-profit private health service
organizations to provide adoption information and referrals to pregnant
women on an equal basis with all other courses of action included in
non-directive counseling of pregnant women. Participants in the
training include individuals who provide pregnancy or adoption
information and those who will provide such services after receiving
the training, with Title X (relating to voluntary family planning
projects), Section 330 (relating to community health centers, migrant
health centers, and centers serving homeless individuals and residents
of public housing), and CHA-funded school-based health centers,
receiving priority to receive the training. A total of six
organizations were awarded IAATP funding in 2006.
Section 1201(a)(2)(A) of the IAATP legislation requires grantees to
develop and deliver trainings that are consistent with the Best
Practice Guidelines for Infant Adoption Awareness Training. The IAATP
guidelines address training goals, basic skills, curriculum and
training structure. A complete description of the guidelines is
available at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/programs_fund/discretionary/iaatp.htm.
In addition, grantees are required to conduct
local evaluation of program outcomes and participate in the national
evaluation of the extent to which IAATP training objectives are met.
The Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program: Trainee Survey is the
primary data collection instrument for the national cross-site
evaluation. Respondents will complete the survey prior to receiving
training and approximately 90 days after the training to assess the
extent to which trainees demonstrate sustained gains in their knowledge
about adoption, and to determine the impact of the training on their
subsequent work with pregnant women.
Data collected through the proposed survey will enable ACF to
objectively assess the knowledge and skills gained, retained, and
applied by trainees as a result of their participation in the Infant
Adoption Awareness Training Program, and will answer the following
research questions:
1. Do health care workers who participate in the IAATP training:
Demonstrate enhanced knowledge, attitudes, skills, and
behaviors with respect to adoption counseling following completion of
the program?
Provide adoption information to pregnant women on an equal
basis with other pregnancy planning options?
Demonstrate enhanced awareness of community adoption-
related resources and refer expectant mothers to them as needed?
2. Are trainees more confident about discussing all three pregnancy
planning options (parenting, abortion, and adoption) in a non-directive
counseling style than they were prior to participating in the training?
Cross-site evaluation data will be collected on an annual basis
throughout the five-year funding period. Pre-test and follow-up
versions of the survey are expected to require approximately 10 to 15
minutes to complete. Estimated response time for the follow-up survey
includes time for respondents to access the web-based survey, complete
the survey online, and electronically submit the survey. Respondents
will not need to implement a recordkeeping system or compile source
data in order to complete the survey. Where possible, fields in the
follow-up version of the survey will be pre-filled with static data
from the respondent's pre-test (e.g., demographics, agency type) in
order to further expedite completion of the survey and minimize
respondent burden.
Respondents: Infant Adoption Awareness Program Trainees.
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Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Instrument Number of responses per Average hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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IAATP: Trainee Survey Pre-Test Administration... 1,200 1 .15 180
IAATP: Trainee Survey Follow-Up Administration.. 1,200 1 .10 120
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 300
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is publishing the following summary of a proposed collection
for public comment. Copies of the proposed collection of information
can be requested from L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447,
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail address:
infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified by the
title of the information collection.
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.
Dated: January 8, 2008.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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