[Federal Register: June 7, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 109)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Relationship Quality Instrument for Mentoring Children of
Prisoners Program.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Promoting Safe and Stable Families Amendments of
2001 (Pub. L. 107-133) amended Title IV-B of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 629-629e) to provide funding for nonprofit agencies that
recruit, screen, train, and support mentors for children with an
incarcerated parent or parents. The Family and Youth Services Bureau
(FYSB) of the Administration for Children and Families, United States
Department of Health and Human Services, administers the Monitoring
Children of Prisoners (MCP) program. The MCP program creates lasting,
high-quality one-to-one mentoring relationships that provide young
people with caring adult role models. The quality of these
relationships is an important indicator of success in mentoring
programs. Previous research has shown an association between high-
quality mentoring relationships and positive changes in youth behavior
associated with positive youth benefits, such as improved school
attendance, reductions in risk behavior, and other benefits.
The Relationship Quality Instrument consists of 15 rigorously
field-tested questions \1\ about the relationship, plus several
questions that establish context (age, gender, duration of relationship
and frequency of contacts, etc.). The answers to the questions help
assess how satisfied the youth (mentee) is with the relationship;
whether the mentee is happy in the relationship; whether the mentee
trusts the mentor; and whether the mentor has helped the mentee to cope
with problems. Researchers in the field of mentoring have tested and
validated the questions.
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\1\ Rhodes J., Reddy, R., Roffman, J., and Grossman J.B. (March,
2005). Promoting Successful Youth Mentoring Relationships: A
Preliminary Screening Questionnaire. The Journal of Primary
Prevention, 26:2, 147-167.
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FYSB requires grantees receiving funding to provide information
that can be used to evaluate outcomes for participating children. FYSB
will use the information provided by the instrument to assure effective
service delivery and program management and to guide the development of
national monitoring and technical assistance systems. Finally, FYSB
will use data from this collection for reporting program outcomes to
Congress in the FY 2006 Performance Report during the budget process
and as the basis for outcome evaluation of the program over the long
term.
Respondents: Public, community- and faith-based organizations
receiving funding to implement the MCP program.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Instrument Number of respondents responses per Average burden hours Total burden
respondent per response hours
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Relationship Quality 215 MCP grantees 1 116 (average caseload 24,940.
Instrument for Mentoring serving a total of for MCP grantee).
Children of Prisoners Program. approximately 25,000
children in the
active annual
caseload.
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 24,940.
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, Attn: Desk
Officer for ACF, E-mail address: Katherine_T._Astrich@omb.eop.gov.
Dated: June 1, 2006.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-5174 Filed 6-6-06; 8:45 am]
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