Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 108 / Tuesday, June 8, 2021 / Notices 30463 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Evaluation of Project Connect (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) at the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) is proposing a new 

information collection to assess the 

implementation of Project Connect, a 

comprehensive home visitation 

intervention that provides home-based 

services and treatment to child welfareinvolved, substance-affected families 

with children and adolescents ages 0 to 

17. 

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 proposed 

information collection activity will 

assess the implementation of Project 

Connect, a comprehensive home 

visitation intervention that provides 

home-based services and treatment to 

child welfare-involved, substanceaffected families with children and 

adolescents ages 0 to 17. The program 

aims to strengthen and address the 

complex needs of substance-affected 

families by providing intensive, longterm services that address issues of 

unhealthy parental substance use and 

provide help for parents recover while 

keeping children safe. It focuses on 

maintaining children safely in their 

homes and preventing admission to 

care, or facilitating reunification when 

children have been placed in out-ofhome care. 

The implementation study will 

support a planned effectiveness 

evaluation that will rely on 

administrative data to examine the 

impact of the program on child welfare 

outcomes. These information collection 

activities will take place over the course 

of five site visits to the program and 

child welfare agency that are 

participating in the study. Information 

collection activities include interviews 

with program and child welfare agency 

administrators, focus groups with 

program and child welfare agency staff, 

interviews and focus groups with 

participants, interviews with other 

program stakeholders, and observations 

of program staff meetings, program 

delivery, and judicial hearings. Site 

visits will also include direct 

observations of staff delivery of the 

program, program staff meetings, and 

relevant judicial hearings/activities for 

program families. 

This evaluation is part of a larger 

project to help ACF build the evidence 

base in child welfare through rigorous 

evaluation of programs, practices, and 

policies. The activities and products 

from this project will contribute to 

evidence building in child welfare and 

help to determine the effectiveness of a 

substance use program on child welfare 

outcomes. 

Respondents: Semi-structured 

interviews will be completed with 

agency and program administrators, 

parents who are participating in the 

program, parents receiving services as 

usual, and other program stakeholders. 

Focus groups will be conducted with 

agency and program staff and parents 

who are participating in the program 

and parents receiving services as usual. 

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) 

Interview Guide for Administrators (Project Connect, 

Child Welfare Agency, and Child Welfare Central 

Referral Unit) .......................................................... 14 1 1 14 5 

Focus Group Guide for Staff (Project Connect and 

Child Welfare Agency Staff) ................................... 24 1 1.50 36 12 

Interview Guide for Other Stakeholders (Behavioral 

Health and Judicial Stakeholders) ......................... 12 1 1 12 4 

Interview Guide for Families ...................................... 16 1 1 16 5 

Focus Group Guide for Families ............................... 24 1 1.5 36 12 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 38. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 676. 

Mary B. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11934 Filed 6–7–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; Head 

Start Family and Child Experiences 

Survey (FACES) (OMB #0970–0151) 

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), 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS), is 

proposing to collect data for a new wave 

of the Head Start Family and Child 

Experiences Survey (FACES). 

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of 

publication. OMB must make a decision 

about the collection of information 


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