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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

[OMB No. 0970–0545] 

Proposed Revision to Information 

Collection Activity; Next Generation of 

Enhanced Employment Strategies 

Project 

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, 

and Evaluation, Administration for 

Children and Families, HHS. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Planning, 

Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within 

the Administration for Children and 

Families is proposing revisions to data 

collection activities conducted for the 

Next Generation of Enhanced 

Employment Strategies (NextGen) 

Project (OMB #0970–0545). The project 

is rigorously evaluating innovative 

interventions to promote employment 

and economic security among lowincome individuals with complex 

challenges. The project includes an 

experimental impact study, descriptive 

study, and cost study. The project is 

seeking approval for two participant 

follow-up surveys and related materials 

with proposed changes to the 

instruments and to the tokens of 

appreciation for the follow-up surveys. 

The requested changes do not require 

any changes to the previously submitted 

and approved burden estimates. 

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of 

publication. 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. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed 

collection of information can be 

obtained and comments may be 

forwarded by emailing 

OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

Identify all requests by the title of the 

information collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: OPRE is conducting the 

NextGen Project to build the evidence 

around effective strategies for helping 

low-income individuals find and 

sustain employment. This project will 

identify and test innovative 

employment programs designed to help 

people facing complex challenges 

secure economic independence. The 

project is partnering with the Social 

Security Administration to incorporate a 

focus on employment-related early 

interventions for people with current or 

foreseeable disabilities who have 

limited work history and are potential 

applicants for Supplemental Security 

Income. 

Prior information collection requests 

for the project (see https://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202102-0970-003) 

occurred in two phases. Phase 1 

instruments—the informed consent 

form, baseline survey, and identifying 

and contact information collection— 

were approved in April 2020. Phase 2 

instruments—staff characteristics 

survey, program leadership survey, 

semi-structured program participant 

discussion guide, semi-structured 

employer discussion guide, service 

receipt tracking, in-depth participant 

interview guide, and cost workbook— 

were approved in December 2020. 

Approval for changes to the Phase 1 and 

some Phase 2 instruments was received 

in March 2021. 

We now seek approval for the first 

and second follow-up surveys, advance 

letters and related materials, and 

changes to the proposed tokens of 

appreciation for the follow-up surveys. 

Below are additional details regarding 

this clearance request. 

First Follow-Up Survey (Instrument 3) 

We propose the following revisions to 

the first follow-up survey: 

• Minor revisions to skip patterns and 

the wording of some items for clarity. 

• Moved all items about jobs to the 

beginning of the survey (Section A) to 

collect this information first because of 

its importance. 

• Added items on the effect of 

COVID–19 including changes in jobs as 

a result of the pandemic (A02a); 

whether any physical, mental, or 

emotional condition that limits work is 

related to COVID–19 (A22a); 

employment challenges related to the 

pandemic (A23); receipt of advice on 

how to meet workplace requirements 

related to COVID–19 (B01m); and 

vaccination status (C10a). 

• Removed some benefits from the 

list of benefits available at the 

respondent’s current or last job (A16), 

dropped the industry and occupation 

items, and removed most items about 

employment challenges (A23) to reduce 

burden. 

• Added questions about confidence 

in ability to seek employment (A25) for 

one program. 

• Removed the distinctions between 

receiving services in one-on-one settings 

and group settings (B01 and B02) to 

reduce burden. Added an item about 

attendance at any group support 

meetings (B02) for one program. 

• Modified the items (B01) about 

receipt of services to better match the 

services offered by the programs in the 

project. 

• Removed questions related to the 

amount of time spent in employment 

services and ask only about the location 

where respondents received the most 

services (B03), rather than asking about 

all locations, to reduce burden. 

• Replaced questions about each 

education or training program with 

questions about all programs attended 

(B04 to B05b) and removed questions 

about the amount of time spent in the 

program because education and training 

are not part of any selected program. 

Removed questions about employerprovided training because they were not 

relevant to any program. Added items 

about participating in education or 

training programs (B04a and B05a) at 

the time of the survey and receipt of a 

certificate or degree (B04c and B05b). 

Tailored the education and training 

questions for one program that works 

with young adults (B06–B08b) to make 

it easier for them to respond. 

• Revised the recall period for mental 

health service receipt to the last 6 

months instead of since random 

assignment (B10–B10b) to better match 

when the program expects to affect the 

receipt of these services. 

• Added questions about receipt of 

services for physical medical conditions 

and receipt of mental health services for 

respondents’ children within the last 6 

months for one program (B11 and B11a). 

• Removed items asking about the 

type of rental housing and number of 

days spent homeless since housing is 

not a focus of the selected programs. 

Moved the remaining housing questions 

to an earlier location in the survey (C01, 

C01a, and C02). 

• Removed benefits from a question 

about benefit receipt (C03) that we do 

not expect many study participants to 

receive to reduce burden. 

• Added a series of questions about 

financial help received from parents, 

relatives, friends, or neighbors and the 

amount received (C04b to C04e1) for a 

program serving young adults and an 

item to ask if the program helped them 

in having a trusted person they can turn 

to for job advice (D02d). 

• Modified the emergency support 

items (C05–C07a) to ask how many 

people the respondents can turn to for 

help, to borrow money, or for advice, 

and added items on social trust (C07b 

and C07c) to measure social support 

more accurately. 

• Added the Healthy Families 

Parenting Inventory’s parenting efficacy 


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subscale (C08) for one program that 

aims to improve mothers’ belief in their 

parenting skills. 

• Added items about confidence in 

future financial situations (C09a-C09b) 

for one program that aims to increase 

youths’ belief in their ability to become 

self-sufficient. 

• Added a question to ask if 

participants are covered by health 

insurance (C10b). 

• Added the Center for Epidemiologic 

Studies Depression Scale Revised 

(CESD–R) (C22a) for use by a program 

that serves mothers with symptoms of 

depression. For this program, this more 

in-depth depression scale will be used 

instead of the shorter K–6 Distress Scale 

(C22). 

• Added questions about whether the 

respondent is currently under courtordered supervision (C38), whether any 

convictions were for felonies (C42), and 

if any of the reported incarcerations 

were for violating the terms of courtordered supervision (C44) for a program 

that serves adults with criminal justice 

system involvement. 

• Removed some items asking 

program group study participants about 

their satisfaction with the program. 

We currently have OMB approval to 

provide a $40 gift card for follow-up 

survey completion. Based on new 

evidence, we propose to increase the 

first follow-up survey token of 

appreciation from $40 to $50 and to add 

a $5 prepaid gift card for the first 

follow-up survey sent with the advance 

letter. We would assess the effectiveness 

of the prepaid gift card using an 

experiment. If the experiment shows 

that prepaid tokens of appreciation are 

effective at increasing response rates or 

decreasing the treatment-control 

response rate differential, we will 

propose using it for remaining sample 

members for the first follow-up survey. 

Second Follow-Up Survey (Instrument 

4) 

We propose changes to the second 

follow-up survey to match the changes 

proposed for the first follow-up survey. 

We propose introducing a $5 prepaid 

token of appreciation if the experiment 

for the first follow-up survey 

demonstrates it is effective. We do not 

propose changes to the previously 

approved $50 postpaid gift card for the 

second follow-up survey. 

Respondents: Individuals enrolled in 

the NextGen Project. 

Annual Burden Estimates 

The annual burden estimates for the 

instruments we are requesting to revise 

are presented below. All currently 

approved materials under OMB # 0970– 

0545 and the associated burden can be 

found at: https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_

nbr=202012-0970-003. 

Instrument 

Total 

number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Annual 

burden hours 

PHASE 2 

First follow-up survey—participants ..................................... 8,000 2,667 1 0.83 2,214 

Second follow-up survey—participants ................................ 8,000 2,667 1 0.83 2,214 

Total Annual Burden Hours, Phase 2: 

4,428. 

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. 

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BILLING CODE 4184–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Measuring Human Trafficking 

Prevalence in Construction: A Field 

Test of Multiple Estimation Methods 

(New Collection) 

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, 

and Evaluation, Administration for 

Children and Families, HHS. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF) is 

proposing a new data collection activity 

for Measuring Human Trafficking 

Prevalence in Construction: A Field Test 

of Multiple Estimation Methods. This 

study will examine the labor trafficking 

and other labor exploitation experiences 

among individuals who work in 

construction. The goal of this study is to 

advance knowledge of promising 

methods for estimating human 

trafficking prevalence by field-testing 

two methods of prevalence estimation 

within the construction industry in 

Houston, Texas. 

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of 

publication. OMB must make a decision 

about 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. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. You can also obtain 

copies of the proposed collection of 

information by emailing 

OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

Identify all requests by the title of the 

information collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: The purpose of the 

proposed data collection activity is to 

estimate the prevalence of labor 

trafficking among construction workers 

in one location using two different 

sampling and estimation strategies. The 

proposed information collection activity 

is a one-time survey with up to 4,200 

adults who worked in the construction 

industry in the selected geographic 

location in the 24 months prior to data 

collection. The construction worker 

survey will be offered in English and 

Spanish to workers identified through 

the following two sampling strategies: 

(1) Probability sample (i.e., time 

location sample), and (2) a network 

sample. The survey instrument used for 

individuals recruited through the two 

different sampling strategies will be 

primarily the same and includes 

questions focused on the individuals’ 

experiences with labor exploitation and 

trafficking; employment histories, 

including work after a natural disaster; 

social networks; and demographic data. 

Respondents: English- and Spanishspeaking individuals who have worked 

in construction in Houston, Texas, in 

the 2 years prior to data collection will 

be invited to complete a survey. 


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