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Submission for OMB Review; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Human Services Analysis Execution Project (New Collection)
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to collect data to explore how one state's changes to T...
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description:
The Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Human Services Analysis Execution project is proposing to collect information for a qualitative study to explore how families of different ethnic and racial backgrounds have experienced changes that one state made to TANF policies and services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will explore policies such as job-search and other participation requirements, virtual resources and services, and the provision of tablet computers to TANF participants.
We will collect information at the state level and from three purposively selected sites in one state, selected to represent the racial and ethnic diversity within the state. The state-level data collection will include (1) TANF program administrators and (2) representatives from the program partnering with the state in the provision of tablet computers to TANF program participants. Information collection at each of the three sites will include semi-structured interviews or focus groups with: (1) TANF program administrators, frontline staff, and participants; and (2) community partner organizations that serve TANF-eligible families and individuals served by those organizations. Site visits will be conducted in-person or virtually, depending on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic at the time of the site visits.
This study is part of a larger project to help ACF identify racial and ethnic disparities in related to the delivery of human services.
This study is intended to present an internally-valid description of how different racial and ethnic groups experience TANF policies, practices, and service delivery in one state at selected sites, not to promote statistical generalization to other sites or service populations.
Respondents:
(1) State and regional TANF agency administrators, (2) TANF frontline staff at the site-level, (3) staff at community agencies that serve TANF-eligible families, (4) staff from the computer tablet program and from program partner organizations, (5) TANF participants, (6) tablet program participants, and (7) individuals who are eligible for TANF but not enrolled.
Annual Burden Estimates
| Instrument |
Number of
respondents
(total over
request
period) |
Number of
responses per respondent
(total over
request
period) |
Average
burden per
response
(in hours) |
Total burden
(in hours) |
Annual burden
(in hours) |
| Instrument A: State and Regional TANF Administrators Guide (Interviews) |
8 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
4 |
| Instrument B: Local Frontline Staff Guide (Interviews) |
10 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
5 |
| Instrument B: Local Frontline Staff Guide (Focus Groups) |
10 |
1 |
1.5 |
15 |
8 |
| Instrument C: Community-Based Organizations Guide (Interviews) |
6 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
| Instrument D: Tablet Providers and Program Partners Guide (Interviews) |
6 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
| Instrument E: TANF Participants Guide (Interviews) |
40 |
1 |
1 |
40 |
20 |
| Instrument E: TANF Participants Guide (Focus Groups) |
20 |
1 |
1.5 |
30 |
15 |
| Instrument F: Tablet Program Participants Guide (Focus Groups) |
10 |
1 |
1.5 |
15 |
8 |
| Instrument G: Individuals Eligible but Not Receiving TANF Guide (Interviews) |
15 |
1 |
1 |
15 |
8 |
| Instrument G: Individuals Eligible but Not Receiving TANF Guide (Focus Groups) |
15 |
1 |
1.5 |
23 |
12 |
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:
86.
Authority:
Section 413 of the Social Security Act, as amended by the FY 2017 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Pub. L. 115-31).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.