Attachment A - Reimagining NSCAW data users and advisors email invitation

Attachment A - Reimagining NSCAW data users and advisors email invitation

OMB Control Number: 0970-0401, Expiration Date: June 30, 2024

We would like your feedback and input to help inform the development of design options to consider for future National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) data collections. We are contacting you because you have used the NSCAW dataset in the past and have familiarity with the NSCAW design, sample, population of interest, and instruments. As an NSCAW user, your feedback and opinions are very important to us.

In the fall of 2021, ACF’s Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, in collaboration with the Children’s Bureau, launched a new project called Reimagining NSCAW. This project will carry out preliminary activities to guide future NSCAW data collections. These include (a) developing potential design option(s), (b) actively engaging with various stakeholders and experts, (c) conducting preliminary or pilot data collections, and (d) disseminating findings from these efforts. The project is led by RTI International and our partners at Rutgers University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

We are reaching out to you as part of the Reimagining NSCAW project. Specially, we invite you to:

1. Complete a 20-minute online survey, and

2. Participate in a 90-minute webinar to be held on [insert webinar date, time].

Both the survey and webinar will ask you to use your knowledge of NSCAW to give advice about future NSCAW data collection efforts. We’ll want you to think about past investments in NSCAW and the contributions that those investments have made to our knowledge about the children and families who come in contact with the Child Welfare System. Then, we’ll want you to consider emerging research priorities and issues that the Child Welfare System is facing today or may face in the future.

In the webinar, we’ll discuss prior and new research questions of interest as well as design alternatives to be considered for future data collections.

Prior to the webinar, please complete the online survey at the link below. At the beginning of this survey, we provide more detail about NSCAW’s history, past challenges and successes, and future issues to be considered.

[insert web survey link]

Thank you in advance for helping to shape this important effort!

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BURDEN: Through this information collection, ACF is gathering information to solicit feedback on future National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being data collections. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1.83 hours per respondent, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. This is a voluntary collection of information. Agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB # is 0970-0401 and the expiration date is 06/30/2024. If you have any comments on this collection of information, please contact Melissa Dolan: [email protected]