FasTrack GenIC - NSCAW Feedback

Request for Approval under the “Generic Clearance for the Collection of Routine Customer Feedback” (OMB Control Number: 0970-0401, Expiration Date: June 30, 2024)

TITLE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION: Feedback on future National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) data collections

PURPOSE: We will host virtual meetings to solicit feedback from National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) current data users and advisors to inform knowledge about children and families who come into contact with the Child Welfare System, all part of a larger effort known as “Reimagining NSCAW”. We will collect feedback prior to the virtual meetings through a web survey that will give participants the opportunity to learn more about the goals of Reimagining NSCAW and to share ideas on future research questions, design components, plans for preliminary data collection, and plans for dissemination. Responses from the web survey will be summarized and presented during the virtual meting to help guide the discussion.

During the meeting, we will engage these customers and other stakeholders – including NSCAW data users and advisors – who have familiarity with past NSCAW designs and past experience analyzing archived NSCAW data. These individuals will be prompted to provide feedback on substantive priorities, research questions, sampling frame, population of interest, and candidate design options to inform and improve future data collection efforts. The feedback collected will help inform the development of future data priorities and emerging research questions of interest that will contribute to future NSCAW design options.

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONDENTS:

The customer and other stakeholders consist of NSCAW data users and advisors including researchers who have published work using previous NSCAW cohorts’ archived data. It will also include individuals who have advised on NSCAW data issues in the past.

TYPE OF COLLECTION: (Check one)

[ ] Customer Comment Card/Complaint Form [ ] Customer Satisfaction Survey

[ ] Usability Testing (e.g., Website or Software [X] Small Discussion Group

[ ] Focus Group [X] Other: _Web survey________

CERTIFICATION:

I certify the following to be true:

1. The collection is voluntary.

2. The collection is low-burden for respondents and low-cost for the Federal Government.

3. The collection is non-controversial and does not raise issues of concern to other federal agencies.

4. The results are not intended to be disseminated to the public.

5. Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy decisions.

6. The collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions from respondents who have experience with the program or may have experience with the program in the future.

Name: Christine Fortunato, Senior Social Science Research Analyst, ACF Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation

To assist review, please provide answers to the following question:

Personally Identifiable Information:

1. Is personally identifiable information (PII) collected? [ ] Yes [X] No

2. If Yes, will any information that is collected be included in records that are subject to the Privacy Act of 1974? [ ] Yes [ ] No

3. If Yes, has an up-to-date System of Records Notice (SORN) been published? [ ] Yes [ ] No

Gifts or Payments:

Is an incentive (e.g., money or reimbursement of expenses, token of appreciation) provided to participants? [ ] Yes [X] No

BURDEN HOURS

Information Collection	Category of Respondent	No. of Respondents	No. of Responses per Respondent	Estimated Time per Response	Burden Hours
Instrument 1 – Reimagining NSCAW data users and advisors pre-webinar survey	Individuals or households	35	1	.33 hours	11.67
Instrument 2 – Reimagining NSCAW data users and advisors webinar discussion questions	Individuals or households	35	1	1.5 hours	52.5
Totals		35	1	1.83	64

FEDERAL COST: The estimated annual cost to the Federal government is $ 5,562.26

If you are conducting a focus group, survey, or plan to employ statistical methods, please provide answers to the following questions:

The selection of your targeted respondents

1. Do you have a customer list or something similar that defines the universe of potential respondents and do you have a sampling plan for selecting from this universe? [] Yes [X] No

If the answer is yes, please provide a description of both below (or attach the sampling plan)? If the answer is no, please provide a description of how you plan to identify your potential group of respondents and how you will select them?

Respondents will include: (1) NSCAW data users, and (2) NSCAW advisors. These respondents will be identified by their research publications and expertise relevant to future NSCAW study designs and research questions. Relevant areas of expertise include: child welfare, early childhood, adolescence or young adulthood, vulnerable populations, kinship care/adoption/guardianship, vulnerable populations, servies for child welfare-involved children and families (including Medicaid-funded services), and racial/ethnic disparities.

A list of NSCAW data users will be identified through a literature search of publications using NSCAW archived data. This will include individuals who have advised on NSCAW design and data issues in the past. This list will include frequent users of NSCAW (defined as an author with three or more publications) and recent users of NSCAW (defined as an author with at least one NSCAW publication in the last 10 years).

A list of NSCAW advisors will be developed based on demonstrated expertise in a relevant area of interest. These individuals may or may not have publications using NSCAW data.

All respondents identified using the above criteria will be included in the email invitation to participate in the survey and webinar.

Administration of the Instrument

1. How will you collect the information? (Check all that apply)

[X] Web-based or other forms of Social Media

[ ] Telephone

[ ] In-person

[ ] Mail

[ ] Other, Explain

2. Will interviewers or facilitators be used? [ ] Yes [X] No

Please make sure that all instruments, instructions, and scripts are submitted with the request.

Instruments & Attachments:

Instrument 1: Reimagining NSCAW Data Users and Advisors Pre-Webinar Survey

Instrument 2: Reimagining NSCAW Data Users and Advisors Webinar Discussion

Questions

Attachment A: Reimagining NSCAW Data Users and Advisors Email Invitation

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