81 FR 44308 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 130 (July 7, 2016)
Administration for Children and Families
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 130 (July 7, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-16050 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 130 (Thursday, July 7, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 44308-44309] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-16050] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request Title: Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED). OMB No.: 0970-0439. Description: The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) within the Administration for Child and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeks an extension without change for an existing data collection called the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED) through September 30, 2018 (OMB no. 0970-439; expiration date September 30, 2016). Under CSPED, OCSE has issued grants to eight state child support agencies to provide employment, parenting, and child support services to parents who are having difficulty meeting their child support obligations. The overall objective of the CSPED evaluation is to document and evaluate the effectiveness of the approaches taken by these eight CSPED grantees. This evaluation will yield information about effective strategies for improving child support payments by providing non-custodial parents employment and other services through child support programs. It will generate extensive information on how these programs operated, what they cost, the effects the programs had, and whether the benefits of the programs exceed their costs. The information gathered will be critical to informing decisions related to future investments in child support-led employment-focused programs for non-custodial parents who have difficulty meeting their child support obligations. The CSPED evaluation consists of the following two interconnected components or ``studies'': 1. Implementation and Cost Study. The goal of the implementation and cost study is to provide a detailed description of the programs-- how they are implemented, their participants, the contexts in which they are operated, their promising practices, and their costs. The detailed descriptions will assist in interpreting program impacts, identifying program features and conditions necessary for effective program replication or improvement, and carefully documenting the costs of delivering these services. Key data collection activities of the implementation and cost study include: (1) Conducting semi-structured interviews with program staff and selected community partner organizations to gather information on program implementation and costs; (2) conducting focus groups with program participants to elicit participation experiences; (3) administering a web-based survey to program staff and community partners to capture broader staff program experiences; and (4) collecting data on study participant service use, dosage, and duration of enrollment throughout the demonstration using a web-based Management Information System (MIS). Two of these collection activities will be completed before the requested extension period begins. They include the focus groups and the web-based survey of program staff and community partners. 2. Impact Study. The goal of the impact study is to provide rigorous estimates of the effectiveness of the eight programs using an experimental research design. Program applicants who are eligible for CSPED services are randomly assigned to either a program group that is offered program services or a control group. The study MIS that documents service use for the implementation study is also being used by grantee staff to conduct random assignment for the impact study. The impact study relies on data from surveys of participants, as well as administrative records from state and county data systems. Survey data are collected twice from program applicants. Baseline information is collected from all noncustodial parents who apply for the program prior to random assignment. A follow-up survey is collected from sample members twelve months after random assignment. A wide range of measures are collected through surveys, including measures of employment stability and quality, barriers to employment, parenting and co- parenting, and demographic and socio-economic characteristics. In addition, data on child support obligations and payments, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, Medicaid receipt, involvement with the criminal justice system, and earnings and benefit data collected through the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system are obtained from state and county databases. Respondents: Respondents to these activities include study participants, grantee staff and community partners, as well as state and county staff responsible for extracting data from government databases for the evaluation. Specific respondents per instrument are noted in the burden table below. Annual Burden Estimates The following table provides the burden estimates for the implementation and cost study and the impact study components of the current request. The requested extension period is estimated to be two years and three months, from July 1, 2016 to September 30, 2018. Thus, burden hours for all components are annualized over two years and three months. Implementation and Cost Study ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Average burden Estimated Total number responses per hours per total burden Total annual Instrument of respondents respondent response hours burden hours remaining remaining remaining remaining remaining ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Staff interview topic guide with 120 1 1 120 53 program staff and community partners....................... Study MIS for grantee and 200 468.75 0.0333 3,125 1,390 partner staff to track program participation.................. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 44309]] Impact Study ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Average burden Estimated Total number responses per hours per total burden Total annual Instrument of respondents respondent response hours burden hours remaining remaining remaining remaining remaining ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introductory Script for Program 120 9 .1667 180 80 Staff.......................... Introductory Script for Program 1,050 1 .1667 175 78 Participants................... Baseline Survey................. 1,000 1 .5833 583 259 Study MIS to Conduct Random 120 9 .1667 180 80 Assignment..................... Protocol for collecting 32 1 8 256 114 administrative records......... 12-month follow-up survey....... 1,476 1 0.75 1,107 492 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,546. Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20201. Attention Reports Clearance Officer. All requests should be identified by the title of the information collection. Email address: [email protected]. 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, Email: [email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration of Children and Families. Robert Sargis, Reports Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2016-16050 Filed 7-6-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4184-01-P
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Termination Settlement Proposal of the programs exceed their costs. The a control group. The study MIS that
Forms—FAR (SF’s 1435 through 1440), information gathered will be critical to documents service use for the
in all correspondence. informing decisions related to future implementation study is also being used
Dated: June 30, 2016. investments in child support-led by grantee staff to conduct random
Mahruba Uddowla, employment-focused programs for non- assignment for the impact study. The
custodial parents who have difficulty impact study relies on data from surveys
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Division, Office of Government-wide meeting their child support obligations. of participants, as well as administrative
Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition The CSPED evaluation consists of the records from state and county data
Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy. following two interconnected systems. Survey data are collected twice
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components or ‘‘studies’’: from program applicants. Baseline
1. Implementation and Cost Study. information is collected from all
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The goal of the implementation and cost
noncustodial parents who apply for the
study is to provide a detailed
program prior to random assignment. A
description of the programs—how they
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND follow-up survey is collected from
are implemented, their participants, the
HUMAN SERVICES contexts in which they are operated, sample members twelve months after
their promising practices, and their random assignment. A wide range of
Administration for Children and measures are collected through surveys,
Families costs. The detailed descriptions will
assist in interpreting program impacts, including measures of employment
identifying program features and stability and quality, barriers to
Submission for OMB Review; employment, parenting and co-
Comment Request conditions necessary for effective
program replication or improvement, parenting, and demographic and socio-
Title: Child Support Noncustodial and carefully documenting the costs of economic characteristics. In addition,
Parent Employment Demonstration delivering these services. Key data data on child support obligations and
(CSPED). collection activities of the payments, Temporary Assistance for
OMB No.: 0970–0439. implementation and cost study include: Needy Families (TANF) and
Description: The Office of Child (1) Conducting semi-structured Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Support Enforcement (OCSE) within the interviews with program staff and Program (SNAP) benefits, Medicaid
Administration for Child and Families selected community partner receipt, involvement with the criminal
at the U.S. Department of Health and organizations to gather information on justice system, and earnings and benefit
Human Services seeks an extension program implementation and costs; (2) data collected through the
without change for an existing data conducting focus groups with program Unemployment Insurance (UI) system
collection called the Child Support participants to elicit participation are obtained from state and county
Noncustodial Parent Employment experiences; (3) administering a web- databases.
Demonstration (CSPED) through based survey to program staff and Respondents: Respondents to these
September 30, 2018 (OMB no. 0970– community partners to capture broader activities include study participants,
439; expiration date September 30, staff program experiences; and (4) grantee staff and community partners, as
2016). Under CSPED, OCSE has issued collecting data on study participant well as state and county staff
grants to eight state child support service use, dosage, and duration of
agencies to provide employment, responsible for extracting data from
enrollment throughout the government databases for the
parenting, and child support services to demonstration using a web-based
parents who are having difficulty evaluation. Specific respondents per
Management Information System (MIS). instrument are noted in the burden table
meeting their child support obligations. Two of these collection activities will be
The overall objective of the CSPED below.
completed before the requested
evaluation is to document and evaluate extension period begins. They include Annual Burden Estimates
the effectiveness of the approaches the focus groups and the web-based
taken by these eight CSPED grantees. survey of program staff and community The following table provides the
This evaluation will yield information partners. burden estimates for the
about effective strategies for improving 2. Impact Study. The goal of the implementation and cost study and the
child support payments by providing impact study is to provide rigorous impact study components of the current
non-custodial parents employment and estimates of the effectiveness of the request. The requested extension period
other services through child support eight programs using an experimental is estimated to be two years and three
programs. It will generate extensive research design. Program applicants months, from July 1, 2016 to September
information on how these programs who are eligible for CSPED services are 30, 2018. Thus, burden hours for all
operated, what they cost, the effects the randomly assigned to either a program components are annualized over two
programs had, and whether the benefits group that is offered program services or years and three months.
IMPLEMENTATION AND COST STUDY
Number of Average
Total number Estimated total Total annual
responses per burden hours
Instrument of respondents burden hours burden hours
respondent per response
remaining remaining remaining
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remaining remaining
Staff interview topic guide with program staff and commu-
nity partners ...................................................................... 120 1 1 120 53
Study MIS for grantee and partner staff to track program
participation ...................................................................... 200 468.75 0.0333 3,125 1,390
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IMPACT STUDY
Number of Average
Total number Estimated total Total annual
responses per burden hours
Instrument of respondents burden hours burden hours
respondent per response
remaining remaining remaining
remaining remaining
Introductory Script for Program Staff ................................... 120 9 .1667 180 80
Introductory Script for Program Participants ....................... 1,050 1 .1667 175 78
Baseline Survey ................................................................... 1,000 1 .5833 583 259
Study MIS to Conduct Random Assignment ....................... 120 9 .1667 180 80
Protocol for collecting administrative records ...................... 32 1 8 256 114
12-month follow-up survey ................................................... 1,476 1 0.75 1,107 492
Estimated Total Annual Burden Plains Area Indian Health Service. The property such as patentable material,
Hours: 2,546. date and location of the onsite and personal information concerning
Additional Information: Copies of the consultation session has been changed individuals associated with the grant
proposed collection may be obtained by as reflected in this correction notice. applications, the disclosure of which
writing to the Administration for FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: would constitute a clearly unwarranted
Children and Families, Office of CAPT Chris Buchanan, Acting Director, invasion of personal privacy.
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