Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 153 / Thursday, August 12, 2021 / Notices 44375 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; Early 

Care and Education Leadership Study 

(ExCELS) Descriptive Study (New 

Collection) 

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 (ACF) at the U.S. Department 

of Health and Human Services (DHHS) 

seeks approval to collect information for 

the Early Care and Education 

Leadership Study (ExCELS) Descriptive 

Study. 

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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: The ExCELS Descriptive 

Study is a new information collection to 

learn about what leadership looks like 

in center-based early care and education 

settings serving children whose ages 

range from birth to age 5, but not yet in 

kindergarten, and better understand 

how leadership might improve center 

quality and outcomes for staff, children, 

and families. The goals of ExCELS are 

to (1) develop a short-form measure of 

early care and education leadership that 

has strong psychometric properties, and 

(2) examine empirical support for the 

associations among key constructs and 

outcomes in the study’s theory of 

change of early care and education 

leadership for quality improvement. The 

study will recruit 120 centers that 

receive funding from Head Start or the 

Child Care and Development Fund, ask 

the primary site leader at the centers to 

participate in two interviews, and 

distribute surveys to select center 

managers and all teaching staff to test 

hypothesized associations between 

leadership constructs and outcomes in 

the study’s theory of change. 

Respondents: Management and 

teaching staff from center-based early 

care and education settings that receive 

funding from Head Start or the Child 

Care and Development Fund. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument 

Number of 

respondents 

(total over 

request 

period) 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

(total over 

request 

period) 

Avg. burden 

per response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

Annual burden 

(in hours) 

Center recruitment call script ............................................... 180 1 .33 59 30 

Umbrella organization recruitment approval call script ....... 113 1 .33 37 19 

Engagement interview guide ............................................... 150 1 .33 50 25 

Staffing structure and leadership positions interview guide 120 1 .50 60 30 

Teaching staff roster ............................................................ 120 1 .25 30 15 

Center manager survey ....................................................... 240 1 .42 101 51 

Teaching staff survey ........................................................... 1,680 1 1 1,680 840 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,010. 

Authority: Authorized by the Head 

Start Act section 640 [42 U.S.C. 9835] 

and section 649 [42 U.S.C. 9844]; 

appropriated by the Continuing 

Appropriations Act of 2019; the Child 

Care and Development Block Grant Act 

of 1990 section 658O [42 U.S.C. 9858], 

which also provides authority to use 

this discretionary funding for research; 

appropriated by the Continuing 

Appropriations Act of 2019; and the 

Child Care and Development Block 

Grant (CCDBG) Act of 1990 as amended 

by the CCDBG Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113– 

186). 

Mary B. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17260 Filed 8–11–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Head Start Evaluation of a 

Trauma-Informed Care Program (New 

Collection) 

AGENCY: Office of Head Start, 

Administration for Children and 

Families, Health and Human Services 

(HHS). 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Head Start, 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), is proposing to collect 

data for a new evaluation of a traumainformed care program that will include 

a small randomized controlled trial 

across 10 sites within Head Start Region 

V. The goals of the project are to 

identify the implementation supports 

and methods needed to enable teachers 

to effectively implement TraumaInformed Care in early care and 

education programs, and to evaluate its 

outcomes. Information collected will be 

used to inform ongoing training and 

technical assistance (TTA) work 

provided by the Head Start Centers, 

particularly decisions regarding 

allocation of TTA resources. More 

generally, results may inform OHS 

guidance around social-emotional 

programming. 

DATES: Comments due within 60 days of 

publication. 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. 


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ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed 

collection of information can be 

obtained and comments may be 

forwarded by emailing 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

Alternatively, copies can also be 

obtained by writing to the 

Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Planning, Research, 

and Evaluation (OPRE), 330 C Street, 

SW, Washington, DC 20201, Attn: ACF 

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests, 

emailed or written, should be identified 

by the title of the information collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: The National Center on 

Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety, 

in partnership with Child Trends and 

the Center for Childhood Resilience at 

the Anne & Robert H. Lurie Children’s 

Hospital of Chicago (Lurie), will 

conduct information collection 

activities across 10 sites within Head 

Start Region V as part of a small 

randomized controlled trial of the Ready 

to Learn through Relationships (RLR) 

program, a trauma-informed Framework 

and Toolkit designed to promote 

resilience in young children. In this 

evaluation, sites will be matched on a 

number of factors that may be related to 

implementation and randomized to 

either a low- or high-intensity TTA 

condition. The low-intensity condition 

will receive 4 hours of training, a 

‘‘toolkit’’ of activity-based handouts, 

and access to virtual TA office hours. 

The high-intensity condition will 

include 4 hours of additional training 

on use of the toolkit modules, 6 hours 

of implementation support, and 

monthly classroom coaching. 

Region V Head Start programs that 

choose to voluntarily participate in the 

RLR program will be asked to complete 

a number of implementation and 

outcomes measures and participate in 

other evaluation activities. Data 

collection will involve virtual semistructured interviews and focus groups 

at the end of the evaluation period, webbased surveys (pre and post), a monthly 

web-based log of coaching activities 

completed, and repeated teacher reports 

of practices throughout the day on a 

mobile app during 5 weeks across the 

school year. 

The information to be collected 

focuses on teacher practices for 

supporting children’s social-emotional 

development and on training and 

implementation factors that may 

enhance these practices, which is 

directly relevant to Head Start’s 

mission. Information obtained will be 

shared with Regional TTA providers 

and site administrators to inform their 

ongoing and future TTA work. More 

specifically, results of the evaluation 

will identify the extent to which more 

intensive TTA with ongoing coaching 

and on-site expert consultation 

enhances teacher practice beyond a 

lower-intensity TTA approach. 

Additionally, data are expected to 

identify implementation factors that 

may enhance outcomes at both the level 

of the teacher and Head Start Centers. 

Respondents: All early childhood 

centers in Head Start Region V that meet 

inclusion criteria will be invited to 

submit application forms to participate 

in the evaluation, and approximately 10 

centers will be selected. Within each 

center (or site), we anticipate there will 

be three classrooms of 3–5 year olds. 

Participants at each center will consist 

of 7 or 8 individuals (e.g., directors, 

mental health and behavior consultants, 

lead and assistant teachers, and 

coaches), for a total of 75 individuals 

across all centers or sites. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Total number 

of respondents 

Total number 

of responses 

per respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total/annual 

burden hours 

Trauma-Informed System Change Instrument (TISCI) Questionnaire (all 

site staff) ..................................................................................................... 75 2 0.17 26 

Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Questionnaire (all site 

staff) ........................................................................................................... 75 2 0.25 38 

Site Application Form (site administrators) .................................................... 20 1 1 20 

Site Administrator Interview ........................................................................... 10 1 1 10 

Coach/Teacher Background Form ................................................................ 50 1 0.10 5 

Coaching Logs ............................................................................................... 20 14 0.25 70 

Coach Satisfaction Survey ............................................................................ 20 1 0.25 5 

Coach Interview ............................................................................................. 20 1 1 20 

Professional Self-Care Scale (PSCS)—teachers .......................................... 30 2 0.10 6 

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Survey -teachers ....................... 30 100 0.07 210 

Teacher Satisfaction Survey .......................................................................... 30 1 0.25 8 

Teacher Focus Group .................................................................................... 15 1 1 15 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 433. 

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: Head Start Act Sec. 648. 

Mary B. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17242 Filed 8–11–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–40–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: Public 

Comment Request; Information 

Collection Request Title: Ryan White 

HIV/AIDS Program Client-Level Data 

Reporting System, OMB No. 0906– 

0039—Extension 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), Department of 

Health and Human Services. 


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