Supporting Justification for the OMB New Clearance for the
“Office of Adolescent Health Cohort 3 Teen Pregnancy Prevention, FY 2018 Performance Measure Collection”
Part B: Statistical Methods for Data Collection
December 2018
Revised July 2019
Submitted by:
Office of Adolescent Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 700
Rockville, MD 20852
Project Officer: Tara Rice
INTRODUCTION
The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) is requesting approval of a new data collection for the collection of performance measures for the Cohort 3 FY 2018 Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program grantees for a 3 year period of clearance. OAH supports two types of grants through the TPP program (1) projects that replicate effective programs (Tier 1) and (2) research and demonstration projects that develop and test additional models and innovative strategies to prevent teen pregnancy, referred to as Tier 2. Funding for the TPP Program is authorized under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (P.L. 113-76) and the Continuing Resolution for FY 2018 (Public Law 115-124). The Act provides $100 million in FY 2018 for making competitive awards to public and private entities to fund programs that reduce teen pregnancy. OAH awarded 14 cohort 3 Tier 2 cooperative agreements in September 2018, and may award an estimated 18 Tier 1 cooperative agreements in FY2019.
Performance measures have consistently been a requirement of the TPP grant program since its inception. Several of the measures that are included in this information collection request previously received OMB clearance (0990-0392 and 0990-0438) and have been successfully used over the past 6 years with the initial cohorts of TPP grantees. A 3 year clearance is requested.
The performance measures data collection will fulfill several important functions. First, OAH expects its grantees to use the performance measures to make continuous quality improvement in their program implementation and inform their partners and stakeholders about implementation and sustainability progress. Second, performance measures provide OAH with metrics for monitoring TPP grantees so that project officers can provide technical assistance when needed. Finally, OAH uses the measures to report to OASH, OS, our budget office, and Congress on the grantees’ progress. Performance Measure data collection is a requirement of all TPP grant awards and is included in the funding announcements.
B1. Respondent Universe and Sampling Methods
The respondent universe will include the 14 cohort 3 Tier 2 grant recipients who received funding in September 2018 under the new FY2018 FOAs (cohort 3), as well as an estimated 14 Tier 1 grant recipients that might receive funding in FY 2019. All of these grantees will be reporting data--there will be no sampling of respondents. For observed quality and fidelity measures, grantees will report on a sample of up to 10% of program sessions.
B2. Procedures for the Collection of Information
Because completion of grantee-level and program-model level performance measures has been a funding requirement for the TPP cooperative agreements awarded in 2010, we have had nearly a 100% grantee response rate for TPP grantees over the past 6 years in reporting the grantee-level measures. This requirement was stipulated in each of the funding opportunity announcements for the FY 2018 awards. All cohort 3 grantees will be trained and given technical assistance in the web based data collection procedures to facilitate their reporting.
The grantee and intervention-level measures will be collected by aggregating data obtained from the staff implementing the program. These data include those pertaining to reach and retention, dosage, and fidelity (See Exhibit 1 in Supporting Statement Part A). The dissemination measures will be tracked and summarized from the grantees’ records. The measures will be entered into a web portal.
Once the contractor receives the data, they will further analyze them by type of grantee and provide OAH with a summary of each measure into a biannual report.
All grantee materials, including the web-based reporting system will include all required PRA information including OMB number and expiration date, PRA blurb, purpose of the collection and use of the data, length of time, and Privacy Act statement
B3. Methods to Maximize Response Rates and Deal with Non-response
Because completion of performance measures is a funding requirement for these cooperative agreements, we expect that we will have a 100% grantee response rate. This requirement was stipulated in the Funding Opportunity Announcements. All grantees will be trained in the web based data collection procedures to facilitate their responses.
B4. Tests of Procedures or Methods to be undertaken
The majority of grantee-level and program-level metrics have been reported successfully over the past six years by OAH grantees.
B5. Individuals Consulted on Statistical Aspects and Individuals Collecting and/or Analyzing Data
The agency official responsible for receiving and approving contract deliverables is:
Tara Rice
240-453-8123
[email protected]
Office of Adolescent Health/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
700
Rockville, MD 20852
The persons who designed the data collection are:
Tara Rice
240-453-8123
[email protected]
Office of Adolescent Health/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
700
Rockville, MD 20852
Amy Feldman Farb
240-453-2836
[email protected]
Office of Adolescent Health/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
700
Rockville, MD 20852
The persons who will collect the data are:
The up to 28 OAH cohort 3 grantees or designates.
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