[Federal Register: June 19, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 117)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL Enhanced Services for the Hard-to Employ
Demonstration and Evaluation: Kansas and Missouri 36-Month Data
Collection.
OMB NO. New Collection.
Description: The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ
Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to learn what services
improve the employment prospects of low-income persons who face serious
obstacles to steady work. The project is sponsored by the Office of
Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), both within the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), and the U.S. Department of Labor
(DOL).
The HtE project is a multi-year, multi-site evaluation that employs
an experimental longitudinal research design to test four strategies
aimed at promoting employment among hard-to-employ populations. The
four include: (1) Intensive care management and job services program
for Rhode Island Medicaid recipients with serious depression; (2) job
readiness training, worksite placements, job coaching, job development
and other training opportunities for recent parolees in New York City;
(3) pre-employment services and transitional employment for long-term
participants receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF);
and (4) two-generational Early Head Start (EHS) services providing
enhanced self-sufficiency services for parents, parent skills training,
and high-quality child care for children in low-income families in
Kansas and Missouri.
The purpose of this document is to request public comment on the
proposed 36-month parent survey and direct child assessments in Kansas
and Missouri. The research team plans to collect parent-reported
surveys assessing parents' employment, education and economic outcomes,
child outcomes, as well as aspects of parental psychological well-
being, parenting, family functioning and routines, and child care use.
This data collection effort will also include direct assessments of
young children's cognitive, socioemotional and behavioral development.
The follow-up survey and direct child assessments at the 36-month
follow-up in Kansas and Missouri will be used for the following
purposes: To study the extent to which EHS services with enhanced self-
sufficiency services (enhanced EHS services) affect employment,
earnings, income, and welfare dependence of low-income parents with
young children; to study the impacts of enhanced EHS services on child
well-being and school readiness; to examine the impacts of enhanced EHS
services on key aspects of parental psychological well-being,
parenting, family functioning and routines, and child care that might
account for the effects of the intervention on young children; to
collect data on a wider range of outcome measures than is available
through welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Social Security, and
Unemployment Insurance records.
The 36-month data collection efforts draws heavily from the 15-
month survey and direct child assessments conducted in this site.
Materials for the survey and direct child assessments for the 15-month
data collection effort were previously submitted to OMB and were
approved (OMB Control No. 0970-0276).
Respondents: The target population of the HtE project in Kansas and
Missouri is low-income pregnant women and families with infants and
toddlers.
The respondents to the 36-month data collection effort will be all
participants in the program and the control groups of the HtE project
in Kansas and Missouri. Parents will be responding to a survey.
Children between the ages of 2 and 7 years old at the 36-month follow-
up will be asked to participants in direct child assessments aimed at
understanding their emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development
and school readiness.
The annual burden estimates are detailed below, and the substantive
content of each component will be detailed in the supporting statement
attached to this 30-day notice.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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KS/MO 36-month parent survey........ 610 1 .75 457.50
KS/MO 36-month direct child 610 1 .50 305.00
assessments........................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 762.50.
Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant
Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance
Officer. All requests should be identified by the title of the
information collection. E-mail address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning 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. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent directly to the following:
Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax:
(202) 395-3674, Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children
and Families.
Dated: June 13, 2007.
Brendan Kelly
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-2996 Filed 6-18-07; 8:45 am]
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