Section 471(e) of the Social Security
Act (the Act) (42 U.S.C. 671) as amended by Public Law 115-123
allows state and tribal child welfare agencies to receive
reimbursement for some of the costs of providing prevention
services to certain children and their parents or kin caregivers.
The Act requires state and tribal child welfare agencies that
provide such services to collect and report to the Administration
for Children and Families (ACF) information on children receiving
the prevention and family services and programs. States and tribes
must report : • The specific services or programs provided, • The
total expenditures for each of the services or programs provided, •
The duration of the services or programs provided, and • If the
child was identified in a prevention plan as a candidate for foster
care: o the child's placement status at the beginning, and at the
end, of the 12-month period that begins on the date the child was
identified as a candidate for foster care in a prevention plan; and
o whether the child entered foster care during the initial 12-month
period and during the subsequent 12-month period; and • Basic
demographic information (e.g., age, sex, race/Hispanic Latino
ethnicity). During the first information collection period the
Children’s Bureau (CB) had 48 state and tribal jurisdictions opt
into the voluntary Title IV-E Prevention Services Program which
included opting in to Prevention Services data collection effort.
These states and tribes are in various stages of preparing for data
collection and submitting data to the CB. Data submission for these
states will continue into future reporting periods. During the next
reporting period, CB anticipates that approximately five more
states and tribes will opt into the voluntary Title IV-E Prevention
Services Program, and as a result, will opt into this information
collection effort. These states will then begin preparing for and
submitting data to the CB. However, since this program is
voluntary, this number could fluctuate depending on the individual
priorities of child welfare jurisdictions.
US Code:
42
USC 671 Name of Law: Social Security Act
This request is to continue
data collection that is currently approved under OMB # 0970-0529 as
required by the Title IV-E Prevention Services legislation. There
are no changes to the information collection since the last OMB
approval. The number of respondents has been updated to reflect
current estimates and the hours per response have been reframed, as
described in A12 and A13.
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 Prevention Services Data Collection
Supporting Statement A - Prevention Services Data_0970-0529_ FIN.docx
Prevention Services Data Collection