Supporting Justification for the OMB Clearance of the
Teen Pregnancy Prevention, FY 2020 Performance Measure Collection
Part B: Statistical Methods for Data Collection
May 2020
Submitted by:
Office of Population Affairs
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200
Rockville, MD 20852
Project Contact: Tara Rice, [email protected], 240-453-8123
PART B INTRODUCTION
The Office Population Affairs (OPA), (formerly the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), which merged into OPA, effective June 2019) is requesting approval for the collection of performance measures from the grantees to be awarded Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program funding in FY2020. The TPP Program was initiated in FY 2010 as one of six major evidence-based policy initiatives across the Federal government. OAH supports two types of grants through the TPP program (1) projects that replicate evidence-based TPP program models that have been shown to be effective through rigorous evaluation, referred to as 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 authority of Division A, Title II of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law No. 116-94).). The Act provides $100 million in FY 2020 for making competitive awards to public and private entities to fund programs that reduce teen pregnancy. In FY 2020, OAH anticipates awarding new three-year cooperative agreements.
Performance measures have consistently been a requirement of the TPP grant program since its inception. The majority 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 8 years with the initial cohorts of grantees funded during FY2010 and FY2015. Based on our data collection experiences over the last four years, and in consideration of the goals of the FY2020cohort of grantees, the proposed measures have been modified slightly, as presented within SSA. Based on our experience, we have removed and the cost items and added a few metrics that track systems-level networks that are important for tracking the progress of the new grants.
This Supporting Statement requests approval for collection of performance measures for the FY2020 cohort of TPP grantees.
We estimate up to 90 grantees will receive TPP funding in FY 2020. All of these grantees will be reporting data; there will be no sampling of respondents. A couple of items are specific to a particular tier, such as the Tier 1 Supportive Services and Tier 2 Innovative Network projects items; the participant-level items are not relevant to the Tier 2 Innovative Network participants. For observed quality and fidelity measures, Tier 1 and Tier 2 Phase II grantees will report on a sample of at least 10% of program sessions.
B2. Procedures for the Collection of Information
Most of the program-level measures (pertaining to participant reach, dosage, and fidelity) collected by grantees and their sub-awardees (or implementing organizations, who potentially could be partners that are not funded directly through the grants) will be collected by aggregating data obtained from the staff implementing the program. The grantee-level measures (such as number of partners, training, dissemination, sustainability) will be tracked and summarized from the grantees’ or sub-awardees’ administrative records. All measures will be entered into the cloud-based database.
B3. Methods to Maximize Response Rates and Deal with Non-response
Because completion of performance measures has been a funding requirement for the TPP cooperative agreements awarded since 2010, we have had nearly a 100% grantee response rate for the first cohorts of TPP grantees (funded in FY2010 and FY2015). This requirement was stipulated in each of the three funding opportunity announcements for the FY 2020 awards. All grantees will be trained and given ongoing technical assistance in the web based data collection procedures to facilitate their reporting.
B4. Tests of Procedures or Methods to be Undertaken
These measures have been reported successfully over the past eight years.
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
Office of Population Affairs/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
200
Rockville, MD 20852
Amy Farb
240-453-2836
[email protected]
Office of Population Affairs/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
200
Rockville, MD 20852
The persons who designed the data collection are:
Tara Rice
240-453-8123
Office of Population Affairs/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200
Rockville, MD 20852
Nicole Bennett
Office of Population Affairs/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200
Rockville, MD 20852
Jaclyn Ruiz
Office of Population Affairs/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200
Rockville, MD 20852
Amy Margolis
Amy.Margolis@hhs.gov
Office of Population Affairs/HHS
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
200
Rockville, MD 20852
Barri Burrus
919-597-5109
RTI International
3040 E. Cornwallis
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Eric Peele
(919) 316-3898
RTI International
3040 E. Cornwallis Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Ellen Wilson
919-316-3337
RTI International
3040 E. Cornwallis
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Ina Wallace
919-541-6967
RTI International
3040 E. Cornwallis
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
The persons who will collect the data are:
The 90 OAH grantees or sub-awardees
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