Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Performance Measures and Additional Data Collection

Forms and Documents

Forms and supporting documents for this ICR

Document	Type	Status	Availability
Form RF RF QPR	Form and Instruction	Modified	Available
Form HM HM QPR	Form and Instruction	Modified	Available
Form HM 6: Quarterly Performance Report (QPR)	Form and Instruction	Modified	Repair queued
Form RF RF PPR	Form and Instruction	Modified	Available
Form HM HM PPR	Form and Instruction	Modified	Available
Form HM 5: Semi-annual Performance Progress Report (PPR)	Form and Instruction	Modified	Repair queued
HMRF_OMB_0970-0566_revision_AppC_BurdenAssumptions_02022024_clean.docx	Supplementary Document	Uploaded 2024-02-14	Repair queued
HMRF_OMB_0970-0566_revision_App_B_IRB_Exemption.pdf	Supplementary Document	Uploaded 2024-02-14	Repair queued
HMRF_OMB_0970-0566_revision_App_A_LegislativeAuthority.pdf	Supplementary Document	Uploaded 2024-02-14	Repair queued
HMRF_OMB_0970-0566_revision_Part_B_rev_02022024_clean.docx	Supporting Statement B	Uploaded 2024-02-14	Repair queued
HMRF_OMB_0970-0566_revision_Part_A_02022024_clean.docx	Supporting Statement A	Uploaded 2024-02-14	Repair queued

IC Document Collections

Information collection document groups

IC ID	Collection	Type	Status	Form
246012	7: Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Plan	Other-Template	Modified
246011	6: Quarterly Performance Report (QPR)	Form and Instruction	Modified	RF QPR
246011	6: Quarterly Performance Report (QPR)	Form and Instruction	Modified	HM QPR
246011	6: Quarterly Performance Report (QPR)	Form and Instruction	Modified
246010	5: Semi-annual Performance Progress Report (PPR)	Form and Instruction	Modified	RF PPR
246010	5: Semi-annual Performance Progress Report (PPR)	Form and Instruction	Modified	HM PPR
246010	5: Semi-annual Performance Progress Report (PPR)	Form and Instruction	Modified
246008	4: Entrance and Exit Surveys - Program staff (entrance and exit on paper)	Other-HM Adult Entrance Survey	Modified
246007	4: Entrance and Exit Surveys - Program clients (exit)	Other-HM Adult Exit Survey	Modified
246006	4: Entrance and Exit Surveys - Program clients (entrance)	Other-HM Adult Entrance Survey	Modified
246005	3: Service Delivery Data	Other-Reporting System	Modified
246004	2: Program Operations	Other-Survey	Modified
246003	1: Applicant Characteristics - Program Staff	Other-Survey	Modified
246002	1: Applicant Characteristics - Program Applicants	Other-Survey	Modified

ICR Details

OMB Control No: 0970-0566	ICR Reference No: 202402-0970-008
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202309-0970-001
Agency/Subagency: HHS/ACF	Agency Tracking No: OPRE
Title: Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Performance Measures and Additional Data Collection
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR:  No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 03/26/2024
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 02/16/2024
Terms of Clearance:

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	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	03/31/2027	36 Months From Approved	04/30/2024
Responses	251,536	0	447,093
Time Burden (Hours)	78,263	0	140,177
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

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Abstract: For decades, various organizations and agencies (including community- and faith-based organizations, local governments, and universities) have been developing and operating programs to strengthen families through healthy marriage and relationship education and responsible fatherhood programming. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA), has had administrative responsibility for federal funding of such programs since 2006 through the Healthy Marriage (HM) and Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Grant Programs. The authorizing legislation for the programs may be found in Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. Grant recipients receiving funding for HM programs offer services designed to promote healthy marriage and relationships. Legislatively authorized activities for adults include public advertising campaigns, marriage and relationship education/skills, pre-marital education, marriage enhancement, divorce reduction, marriage mentoring, and reduction of disincentives to marriage. Legislatively authorized activities for youth include education in high schools, marriage and relationship education/skills, and public advertising campaigns. RF grant recipients must provide legislatively authorized activities in three areas: economic stability, responsible parenting, and healthy marriage. ACF requires HMRF grant recipients to collect and report performance measures about program operations, services, and clients served. ACF provides a performance measures data collection system called nFORM (Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management) to grant recipients to improve the efficiency of data collection and reporting and the quality of data. This system allows for streamlined and standardized submission of grant recipient performance data through regular progress reports, and it also supports grant recipient-led and federal research projects. Grant recipients are required by ACF’s Office of Grants Management (OGM) to submit a Performance Progress Report (PPR) twice during each grant year (in October and April), reporting on the programmatic activities conducted by the grant recipient in the prior six months and activities planned for the next six months. The semi-annual PPR (Instrument 5) and the quarterly performance report templates (QPR, Instrument 6) fulfill these requirements for the HMRF grant recipients. The performance measures data collection and reporting instruments for the 2020 cohort were approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB #0970-0566) in 2021. The instruments have been used as planned. Through September 29, 2023 (the end of grant year 3), grant recipients in the 2020 cohort had enrolled 103,444 clients, administered the OMB-approved survey instruments, and submitted the OMB-approved reports to ACF to meet reporting requirements. In addition, the data have been used to support numerous federal and grant recipient-led evaluations of the HMRF programs. This request from OFA and the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is for an extension with minor changes to its approved collection and reporting of performance measures about program operations, services, and client services through the HMRF Grant Programs. In an effort to gain a greater understanding of how HMRF programs influence program participants and staff at an individual level, ACF proposes to add one open text field to the quarterly narrative reports to capture information about the experiences of HMRF participants and/or staff.

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Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 42 USC 603 Name of Law: Sec. 403; Social Security Act
  

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

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Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

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Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	88 FR 81085	11/21/2023
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	89 FR 12351	02/16/2024
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

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Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 10

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IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
1: Applicant Characteristics - Program Applicants
1: Applicant Characteristics - Program Staff
2: Program Operations
3: Service Delivery Data
4: Entrance and Exit Surveys - Program clients (entrance)
4: Entrance and Exit Surveys - Program clients (exit)
4: Entrance and Exit Surveys - Program staff (entrance and exit on paper)
5: Semi-annual Performance Progress Report (PPR)	HM, RF	HM PPR ,   RF PPR
6: Quarterly Performance Report (QPR)	HM, RF	HM QPR ,   RF QPR
7: Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Plan

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ICR Summary of Burden

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	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to New Statute	Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate	Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses	251,536	447,093	0	-195,557	0	0
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	78,263	140,177	0	-61,914	0	0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Short Statement: There are no changes to the estimated burden per response for each data collection and reporting instrument. The overall reduction in burden from the original OMB approval is due to the reduced number of HMRF grants that were awarded to the 2020 cohort and a corresponding reduction in respondents, as compared to the number of awards and respondents that were anticipated.

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Annual Cost to Federal Government: $2,757,174

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination.     Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination.     Yes

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

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Common Form ICR:  No

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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:

(a) It is necessary for the proper performance of agency functions;

(b) It avoids unnecessary duplication;

(c) It reduces burden on small entities;

(d) It uses plain, coherent, and unambiguous language that is understandable to respondents;

(e) Its implementation will be consistent and compatible with current reporting and recordkeeping practices;

(f) It indicates the retention periods for recordkeeping requirements;

(g) It informs respondents of the information called for under 5 CFR 1320.8 (b)(3) about:

(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;

(h) It was developed by an office that has planned and allocated resources for the efficient and effective management and use of the information to be collected.

(i) It uses effective and efficient statistical survey methodology (if applicable); and

(j) It makes appropriate use of information technology.

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.

Certification Date: 02/16/2024

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