Gatherings GenIC - 2026 NCHV Meeting

Request for Approval under the “Administration for Children and Families Generic for Information Collections Related to Gatherings”

(OMB Control Number: 0970-0617)

TITLE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION: 2026 Native Communities Home Visiting Meeting

PURPOSE: The Native Communities Home Visiting Meeting (NHVM) will bring together programs and people from across the nation who are working to deliver home visiting services designed to support and promote the health and wellbeing of American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander children, families, and communities. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from peers and experts, share innovative approaches, and build new connections. For this meeting, the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program will be collecting registration information and soliciting presentation abstracts for 90-minute panel presentations or roundtable breakout sessions and 40-minute lightning sessions. Presentations will be solicited through the Call for Presentations form. Interested presenters will complete the Call for Presentations form and ACF and the TA contractor (Tribal Home Visiting Resource Institute for Excellence, THRIVE) will review submissions to determine the final meeting agenda.

These proposed collections align with the purpose and use of information collections under the Generic for Information Collections Related to Gatherings, which specifies the following example information collection activities (See Supporting Statement A of the umbrella generic for additional information):

• Registration forms 

• Applications for panels, posters, or other presentation formats 

• Pre-meeting surveys 

• Post-Meeting/-Workshop/-Training Evaluation Surveys  

The purpose of the collections under this umbrella generic information collection is to gather appropriate information to plan the ACF gathering – 2026 NCHV using the following:

• Meeting registration form

• Call for Presentations form (applications for panel or roundtable breakout sessions)

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONDENTS: The meeting is required for all currently funded Tribal MIECHV grant recipients. It is also open to all those supporting and working in home visiting programs in Native communities (regardless of funding source), as well as home visiting models, funders, and researchers. All attendees will register for the meeting and provide registration information. Those interested in presenting at the meeting will respond to the Call for Presentations. Those respondents include the types of individuals identified above and also subject matter experts in home visiting and nutrition programming in Tribal communities.

CERTIFICATION:

I certify the following to be true:

1. The collection is voluntary.

2. The collection is low-burden for respondents and low-cost for the Federal Government.

3. The collection is non-controversial and does not raise issues of concern to other federal agencies.

4. The information collected is not intended to be disseminated to the public¹.

5. Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy decisions.

Name and affiliation: Anne Bergan, Senior Tribal Analyst, Tribal Home Visiting Program, Office of Early Childhood Development, Administration for Children and Families

To assist review, please provide the following information:

BURDEN HOURS

Instrument Title	Category of Respondent	No. of Respondents	Participation Time	Burden
Call for Presentations	Private Sector	80	1 hour	80 hours
Registration Form	Private Sector	500	5 minutes	42 hours
Total Burden:				122 hours

FEDERAL COST: The estimated annual cost to the Federal government is _$7,808_____

Administration of the Instrument

1. How will you collect the information? (Check all that apply)

[X] Web-based or other forms of Social Media

[ ] Telephone

[ ] In-person

[ ] Mail

[ ] Other, Explain

Please make sure that all instruments, instructions, and scripts are submitted with the request.

1 The information collected through this request is primarily for internal review and will not be published. However, for certain activities information submitted by accepted participants, such as research abstracts to be presented in a poster session, may be published on an ACF website or included in a printed or online program for the activity or subsequent publication describing the activity.

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