The goal of this ongoing monitoring
and evaluation is to assess Healthy Start (HS) progress towards
meeting its performance goals. Results from monitoring and
evaluation efforts will provide actionable evidence to support the
improvement, sustainability, replication, and dissemination of the
program. The information collected will be used to obtain
consistent information across all 100 grantees about HS, its
participants, and its outcomes. Respondents include pregnant women
and women of reproductive age that were served by HS and HS staff.
This revision seeks to reduce the burden of data collection on
grantees and program participants, as well as to focus the
evaluation more clearly on progress towards meeting performance
goals regarding program impact. In the process, this will ensure
that collected data is meaningful for monitoring and evaluation,
and that previously separate data systems can be streamlined, thus
improving efficiency.
US Code:
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USC 254c-8 Name of Law: Public Health Service Act
PL:
Pub.L. 110 - 339 122 Name of Law: Healthy Start Reauthorization
Act of 2007
This revision includes a
reduction in the number as well as length of the forms that
grantees are required to submit. The current OMB approval includes
six forms that have been consolidated into three forms to eliminate
redundancy in this request: (1) Background Information Form, (2)
Prenatal Form, and (3) Parent/Child Form. The increase is due to an
increase in the number of respondents.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.