[Federal Register: February 9, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 26)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

 
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of Children's Bureau Child Welfare 
Implementation Centers and National Resource Centers.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Cross-Site Evaluation of the Child Welfare 
Implementation Centers (IC) and National Resource Centers (NRC) is 
sponsored by the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and 
Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and 
involves the conduct of a five-year, cross-site evaluation that 
examines the effectiveness of the ICs' and NRCs' activities and service 
provision and the relation of their training and technical assistance 
activities to organizational and systems change in State and Tribal 
child welfare systems. Additionally, the evaluation will examine the 
degree to which networking, collaboration, information sharing, 
adherence to common principles, and common messaging occurs across all 
members of the Children's Bureau Training and Technical Assistance (T/
TA) Network, which is designed to improve child welfare systems and to 
support States and Tribes in achieving sustainable, systemic change 
that results in greater

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safety, permanency, and well-being for children, youth, and families. 
The Children's Bureau desires to assess the quality and effectiveness 
of the technical assistance it supports, and several of these programs 
and projects are required to be evaluated, including those funded under 
Section 105 of The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, as amended 
[42 U.S.C. 5106]. Beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2010, the T/TA Network 
will comprise a group of 30 T/TA providers funded entirely or partially 
by the Children's Bureau through grants, contracts, and interagency 
agreements.
    The cross-site evaluation uses a mixed-method, longitudinal 
approach to examine the ICs (funded in FY 2009) and a new cohort of 
NRCs (funded in FY 2010). Proposed data collection methods are a 
longitudinal telephone survey of State child welfare directors (or 
their designees) and Tribal Child Welfare/Social Service Directors (or 
their designees), a Web-based survey of State and Tribal T/TA 
recipients, and aggregation of outputs from a Web-based technical 
assistance tracking system (OneNet) that will be used by the five ICs 
and 11 NRCs. A Web-based survey will be also administered to members of 
the T/TA Network. Data collected through these instruments will be used 
by the Children's Bureau to evaluate the effectiveness of technical 
assistance delivered to State, local, Tribal, and other publicly 
administered or publicly supported child welfare agencies and family 
and juvenile courts and the overall functioning of the T/TA Network.
    Respondents: Respondents to two of the survey instruments will be 
State and Tribal governments. Respondents to the third survey will be 
private institutions, including universities, not-for-profit 
organizations, and private companies. Private institutions, including 
universities and not-for-profit organizations will be respondents to 
the forms in the OneNet tracking system.

                                             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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OneNet Form: General T/TA Event.................              16              26            0.25             104
OneNet Form: NRC T/TA Work Plan.................              11              45            0.20              99
OneNet Form: NRC T/TA Close-Out.................              11              45            0.08           39.60
OneNet Form: NRC T/TA Activity..................              11             528            0.20        1,161.60
OneNet Form: Implementation Project Monthly                    5           62.40            0.17           53.04
 Report.........................................
Agency Results Survey...........................              74               1               1              74
Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA)                     160               3            0.25             120
 Activity Survey................................
Web-Based Network Survey........................              30               1            0.25            7.50
OneNet Form: Implementation Project Information.               5            5.40            0.50           13.50
OneNet Form: Implementation Project T/TA                       5          280.80            0.33          463.32
 Activity.......................................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,135.56.
    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: 202-395-7245, 
Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.

    Dated: February 4, 2010.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-2804 Filed 2-8-10; 8:45 am]
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