Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Federal Register: June 5, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 107)
Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Community-Based Abstinence Education Performance Progress
Report.
OMB No.: 0970-0272.
Description: The discretionary funding Community-Based Abstinence
Education Program (CBAE) is authorized by Title XI, Section 1110, of the Social Security Act (using the definitions contained in Title V,
Section 510(b)(2) of the Social Security Act).
Program-Specific Performance Measure
The CBAE program developed a program-specific performance measure in response to the PART review (a process by which the Office of
Management and Budget analyzes and rates a Federal program's procedures and strategies for evaluating its effectiveness), for which the program received a rating of Adequate. In an effort to gather program-specific data on rates of abstinence pre- and post-program participation, ACF and the Office of Management and Budget determined that a program- specific performance measure should be developed to assess key outcomes among program participants. The CBAE office convened a panel of abstinence education experts to gather input on the measure, and, based on the input provided, the CBAE office developed the measure. CBAE grantees will be required to ask twelve questions of the youth served in a pre- and post-survey, as well as a representative sample of the youth served in a follow-up survey.
The questions were carefully constructed by experienced evaluators to measure initiation and discontinuation of sexual intercourse as well as two key predictors of initiation: Sexual values and behavioral intentions.
The program office will collect and compile data to establish baselines and ambitious targets for the program-specific performance measure. The data will be aggregated and results will be shared with the public as they become available.
Respondents: Youth Participants.
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Annual Burden Estimates
Number of
Average burden
Instrument
Number of
responses per
hours per
Total burden respondents
respondent
response
hours
Community-Based Abstinence Education
1,000,000
3
0.17
510,000
Performance Program--Specific Performance
Measure...................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 510,000
In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described above. Copies of the proposed collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded 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. E-mail address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified by the title of the information collection.
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.
Dated: June 2, 2009.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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