Center for States Evaluation Ancillary Data Collection
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
07/19/2023
table that charts list comparision
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
09/30/2023
3,585
4,319
381
390
0
0
The Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative, Center for States (the Center) is sponsored by the Childrenâs Bureau (CB) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and seeks approval for a revision of an existing data collection. The proposed information collection is necessary to facilitate, track, monitor, and evaluate the activities of the Center for States, part of the Capacity Building Collaborative (âThe Collaborative.â) The Collaborative includes three federally funded centers (Center for States, Center for Tribes, and Center for Courts) that deliver national child welfare expertise and evidence-informed training and technical assistance services to state, tribal, and territorial public child welfare agencies and Court Improvement Programs (CIP).
The Center for Stateâs (the Center) goal is to build the capacities of public child welfare systems to successfully undertake practice, organizational, and systemic reforms necessary to implement federal policies, meet federal standards, and achieve better outcomes for the children, youth, and families they serve. The proposed information collection is necessary to facilitate, track, monitor, and evaluate the Centerâs service delivery.
This revised information collection will allow CB to better understand the services delivered to jurisdictions, the impact of services provided, the quality of services, and support improved infusion of equity and lived expertise into services provided. The proposed information collection includes minor changes to the previous estimates of annualized burden hours and costs to reflect updated response estimates, addition of questions focused on equity and lived expertise, and revisions to reflect updated Center services (e.g., reduced instruments/questions, added instruments/questions).
Estimates of response burden are outlined in Table 1. We have revised the burden estimates from initial approval to account for lower than expected response rates for most instruments during previous administration of instruments as well as the elimination and addition of instruments to reflect programmatic changes. For most instruments that are continued in this package, the total number of respondents estimated is lower in this submission compared to the previous submission with two exceptions. The estimated total respondents increased from 225 to 300 for the Child Welfare Virtual Expo Exit Survey and the estimated total respondents increased from 1,000 to 3,000 for the Child Welfare Virtual Expo Registration Form due to unexpected increases in Virtual Expo attendance. We also updated labor rate to calculate costs to respondents, to reflect the most current (2022) data.
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.
Form 1 Annual Assessment Update (8 systematic questions)
SSB - CfS Eval Ancillary IC_fnl 6.26.23.docx
Peer Group Focus Group Protocol