Feedback from Grant Participants at Child Care and Development Fund Lead Agencies Meetings

_{OMB Control Number:} 0970-0401; Expiration Date: 6/30/2024

Center to Support Research and Evaluation Capacity of CCDF Lead Agencies (CSRE): Feedback from CPRP-2019 Grant Participants on future options for Community of Practice

The purpose of this voluntary information collection is to solicit feedback from participants of the community of practice meetings run by the Center to Support Research and Evaluation Capacity of CCDF Lead Agencies (CSRE). The participants are ACF grant team members participating in the Community of Practice (CoP) for the CCPRP-2019 grants which are aiming to support cross-project support and collaboration. Participant feedback will be collected during or after the 2023 annual meeting of the community of practice through a link to an online survey, a paper form, or a small group discussion. This feedback will help the government understand the grant recipients’ experiences and preferences and will be used to improve future meetings and other supports for these grant recipients.

NOTE: Most of the questions are drawn from previously approved polls for the individual Communities of Practice over the past 3-4 years (i.e., the CCDBG, CCPRP-2019, PROSPR, or CCPRP-2022 Community of Practice).

Question Bank

1. What is your role on your project?

   1. CCDF Lead Agency staff

   2. Principal Investigator or co-PI on research team

   3. Other research team staff
      

2. Please provide input on how often you’d like to see the Community of Practice meet from October 2023 to September 2024, after the initial period of the grant has ended.

   1. Meet monthly, as currently

   2. Meet monthly, but with attendance optional

   3. Meet every other month

   4. Meet quarterly

   5. Other. Please specify [________________________________]

   6. Do not meet at all

3. What best describes the status of your project?

   1. I expect my team will request a no-cost extension to continue the project past September 2023.

   2. I expect the project funded under the 2019 round of the Child Care Research Partnership grants will end in September 2023.

   3. I do not know.

4. If the Community of Practice were to continue to meet monthly, between October 2023 and September 2024, how often do you anticipate joining us, given the status of your project? Please select one response.

   1. I would like to attend frequently (most every month).

   2. I would like to attend occasionally.

   3. I would no longer want to attend the Community of Practice.

5. Please provide input on whether the Community of Practice should hold an annual meeting in 2024, after the initial period of the grant has ended. This could be a time for grantee teams to share their final findings. Please select one answer.

   1. I would favor a one-day annual meeting, using a hybrid (in-person and virtual) format (with the in-person component in DC).

   2. I would favor an annual meeting, using a virtual format of 2 hours.

   3. I would favor an annual meeting, using a virtual format of 4 hours (likely 2, 2-hour sessions.)

   4. I do not favor holding an annual meeting after the one in June 2023.

   5. Other. Please specify [________________________________]

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BURDEN: The purpose of this information collection is to help ACF understand grant recipient preferences for future meetings and other supports. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 5 minutes 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 Teresa Derrick-Mills at [email protected].

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