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Instrument Total number 

of respondents 

Total number 

of responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Annual burden 

hours 

45 CFR 309–New Plan ........................................................ 2 1 480 960 320 

45 CFR 309–Plan Amendment ............................................ 63 1.5 105 9,922 3,307 

Amendments Specific to the Optional Employment and 

Training Services for Non-Custodial Parents in the Child 

Support Program .............................................................. 36 1 6 216 72 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours ......................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 3,699 

Authority: Title IV–D of the Social 

Security Act Section 455(f); 45 CFR 309. 

Mary C. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Regional Partnership Grants 

National Cross-Site Evaluation and 

Evaluation Technical Assistance 

(Office of Management and Budget 

#0970–0527) 

AGENCY: Children’s Bureau, 

Administration for Children and 

Families, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The Children’s Bureau (CB), 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), Administration for 

Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), 

U.S. Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), is requesting an 

extension with changes to the approved 

information collection: Regional 

Partnership Grants (RPG) National 

Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation 

Technical Assistance (Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) #0970– 

0527). The proposed information 

collection will be used in a national 

cross-site evaluation of the seventh 

cohort of CB’s RPG. The cross-site 

evaluation will use a survey, interviews, 

focus groups, and data on participant 

enrollment, services, and outcomes. 

DATES: Comments due March 3, 2025. In 

compliance with the requirements of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF 

is soliciting public comment on the 

specific aspects of the information 

collection described above. 

ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the 

proposed collection of information and 

submit comments by emailing 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. Identify all 

requests by the title of the information 

collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: The Child and Family 

Services Improvement Act of 2006 

(Public Law 109–288) amended Section 

437 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 

629g[f]) and authorized HHS, ACF, 

ACYF, and CB to fund discretionary 

grants to improve safety, well-being, and 

permanency outcomes for children at 

risk of or in out-of-home placement 

because of their caregiver’s substance 

misuse. In response, HHS launched a 

competitive grants program called 

‘‘Targeted Grants to Increase the WellBeing of, and to Improve the 

Permanency Outcomes for, Children 

Affected by Methamphetamine and 

Other Substance Abuse,’’ which is also 

known as the RPG program. 

Reauthorized in 2011 and again most 

recently by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 

2018 (Public Law 115–123) in 2018, 

these grants are designed to support 

partnerships between child welfare 

agencies, substance use disorder 

treatment organizations, and other 

social services systems, and thereby 

improve the well-being, permanency, 

and safety outcomes of children and 

families. Under six prior rounds of RPG, 

CB has issued 109 grants to 

organizations such as child welfare or 

substance use treatment providers or 

family court systems to develop 

interagency collaborations and 

integration of programs, activities, and 

services designed to increase well-being, 

improve permanency, and enhance the 

safety of children who are in an out-ofhome placement or at risk of being 

placed in out-of-home care as a result of 

a parent’s or caretaker’s substance 

misuse. In 2022, CB awarded 18 grants 

to a seventh cohort (RPG7). The current 

request is for data collection activities 

associated with the 18 RPG7 grantees. 

Data collection for the first three cohorts 

was approved under OMB Control 

Numbers 0970–0353 and 0970–0444. 

Data collection for the fourth, fifth, and 

sixth cohorts were approved under this 

OMB Control Number (0970–0527). 

The RPG cross-site evaluation will 

extend the understanding about how 

RPG programs and services may 

improve outcomes for children and 

families. First, the cross-site evaluation 

will assess the coordination of partners’ 

service systems with an emphasis on the 

partnership between the child welfare 

and substance use treatment agencies, to 

add to the research base about how 

these agencies can collaborate to 

address the needs of children and 

families affected by substance misuse 

(partnerships analysis). Second, the 

evaluation will describe the experiences 

of adult participants enrolled in RPG 

services, such as their motivations for 

enrollment and satisfaction with 

services received (participant 

experiences analysis). Third, the 

evaluation will summarize supports 

within the partnership that can help 

improve and sustain RPG services, such 

as using data for service improvement, 

identifying a lead organization, and 

securing funding sources after grant 

funding ends (sustainability analysis). 

Fourth, the evaluation will describe the 

characteristics of participants served by 

RPG programs, the types of services 

provided to families, the dosage of each 

type of service received by families, and 

the level of participant engagement with 

the services provided (enrollment and 

services analysis). Finally, the 

evaluation will assess the outcomes of 

children and adults served through the 

RPG program, such as child behavioral 

problems, adult depressive symptoms, 

or adult substance use and treatment 

(outcomes and impacts analysis). 

For cohort seven, CB is requesting an 

extension of most of the currently 

approved information collections (most 

recently approved in April 2022) with 

no changes, the removal of two 

approved data collections, and the 

addition of three new instruments. This 

will allow CB to continue obtaining 

participant data from grantees that they 

collect for their local evaluations, and 

for directly collecting additional data 

from grantees and their partners and 

providers for the cross-site evaluation. 

Specifically, this request: 


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• Removes the currently approved 

semi-annual progress reports, as they 

are now covered under a separate OMB 

package (0970–0490) and removes the 

partnership survey which will not be 

administered to the RPG7 grantees. 

• Adds data collection of interviews 

and focus groups with participants 

enrolled in RPG services which for the 

first time will allow the cross-site 

evaluation to include participants’ own 

voices to describe their experiences 

receiving services. 

• Continues approval of all other 

information collections approved under 

this OMB control number (Currently 

approved instruments available here: 

https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAICList?ref_nbr=202302-0970-003) 

Overall, this request includes 

following data collection activities: (1) 

site visits with grantees, (2) individual 

interviews and focus groups with 

participants enrolled in RPG services (3) 

a web-based survey about sustainability 

planning, (4) enrollment and services 

data provided by grantees, and (5) 

outcomes and impacts data provided by 

grantees. 

Respondents: Respondents include 

grantee staff or contractors (such as local 

evaluators) and partner staff from the 18 

RPG7 grantees, and 64 adult 

participants enrolled in RPG services. 

Specific types of respondents and the 

expected number per data collection 

effort are noted in the burden table 

below. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Data collection activity 

Total 

number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

(each year) 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

(in hours) 

Total annual 

burden hours 

Site Visit and Key Informant Data Collection 

Program director individual interview ............................................................... 18 0.33 2 12 

Program manager/supervisor individual interviews ......................................... 18 0.33 1 6 

Frontline staff interviews .................................................................................. 36 0.33 1 12 

Partner representative interviews .................................................................... 54 0.33 1 18 

Individual interviews with participants enrolled in RPG services .................... 16 0.33 2 11 

Focus groups with participants enrolled in RPG services ............................... 48 0.33 1.5 24 

Sustainability survey ........................................................................................ 126 0.33 0.33 14 

Enrollment, client, and service data 

Case enrollment data ...................................................................................... 54 33 0.25 446 

Case closure .................................................................................................... 54 33 0.02 36 

Case closure–prenatal ..................................................................................... 18 10 0.02 4 

Service log entries ........................................................................................... 108 1,560 0.03 5,054 

Outcome and impact data 

Administrative Data 

Obtain access to administrative data a ............................................................ 9 0.33 220 330 

Report administrative data ............................................................................... 18 2 81 2,916 

Standardized instruments 

Enter data into local database a ....................................................................... 18 100 1.25 1,125 

Review records and submit ............................................................................. 18 2 25 900 

Data entry for comparison study sites (14 sites) a .......................................... 14 100 1.25 875 

Estimated Totals ....................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 11,783 

a Data are used for site-level evaluations conducted by the grantees. To account for added data preparation steps needed to share data with 

the cross-site evaluation, burden hour estimates assume that only half of this burden is part of the cross-site evaluation. 

Comments: The Department 

specifically requests comments on (a) 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information; (c) the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Consideration will be given 

to comments and suggestions submitted 

within 60 days of this publication. 

Authority: The Child and Family 

Services Improvement Act of 2006 

(Public Law 109–288) created the 

competitive RPG program. The 

September 30, 2011, passage of the 

Child and Family Services Improvement 

and Innovation Act (Public Law 112–34) 

extended funding for the RPG program 

from federal fiscal year (FFY) 2012 to 

FFY 2016. In 2018, the president signed 

the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 

(Public Law 115–123) into law, 

reauthorizing the RPG program through 

FFY 2021 and adding a focus on opioid 

abuse. 

Mary C. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

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