Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 117 / Tuesday, June 19, 2007 / Notices 33761 

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, multisite evaluation that employs an 

experimental longitudinal research 

design to test four strategies aimed at 

promoting employment among hard-toemploy 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 longterm 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

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

KS/MO 36-month parent survey .............................................. 610 1 .75 457.50 

KS/MO 36-month direct child assessments ............................ 610 1 .50 305.00 

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] 

BILLING CODE 4184–07–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Proposed Projects: 


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