Plan for Foster Care, Prevention and Permanency—Title IV–E

ICR 201910-0970-002

OMB: 0970-0433

Federal Form Document

Forms and Documents
Document
Name
Status
Supplementary Document
2019-10-04
Supporting Statement A
2019-10-04
ICR Details
0970-0433 201910-0970-002
Active 201812-0970-005
HHS/ACF ACYF
Plan for Foster Care, Prevention and Permanency—Title IV–E
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 11/26/2019
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 10/09/2019
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
11/30/2022 36 Months From Approved 04/30/2022
92 0 17
467 0 272
0 0 0

A title IV-E plan is required by section 471, part IV-E of the Social Security Act (the Act) for each public child welfare agency requesting Federal funding for foster care, adoption assistance and guardianship assistance under the Act. Section 479B of the Act provides for an Indian tribe, tribal organization or tribal consortium (Tribe) to operate a title IV-E program in the same manner as a State with minimal exceptions. The Tribe must have an approved title IV-E Plan. The title IV-E plan provides assurances the programs will be administered in conformity with the specific regulatory, or policy references and citations for each requirement as well as supporting documentation. The plan must include all applicable State or Tribal statutory, regulatory, or policy references and citations for each requirement as well as supporting documentation. A title IV-E agency may use the pre-print format prepared by the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families or a different format, on the condition that the format used includes all of the title IV-E plan requirements of the law. The FFPSA authorized new optional title IV–E funding for time-limited (one year) prevention services for mental health/substance abuse and in-home parent skill-based programs for: (1) A child who is a candidate for foster care (as defined in section 475(13) of the Act), (2) pregnant/parenting foster youth, and (3) the parents/kin caregivers of those children and youth (sections 471(e), 474(a)(6), and 475(13) of the Act). Title IV–E prevention services must be rated as promising, supported, or well supported in accordance with HHS criteria and be approved by HHS (section 471(e)(4)(C) of the Act) as part of the title IV–E Prevention Services Clearinghouse (section 476(d)(2) of the Act). A state or tribal title IV–E agency electing to participate in the program must submit a five-year title IV–E prevention program plan that meets the statutory requirements. (See Program Instructions ACYF–CB–PI–18–09 and ACYF–CB–PI–18–10 for more information.) The FFPSA also amended Section 474(a)(7) of the Act to reimburse state and tribal IV–E agencies for a portion of the costs of operating kinship navigator programs that meet certain criteria. To qualify for funding under the title IV– E Kinship Navigator program, the program must meet the requirements of a kinship navigator program described in section 427(a)(1) of the Act. The kinship navigator program must also meet practice criteria of promising, supported, or well-supported in accordance with HHS criteria and be approved by HHS (section 471(e)(4)(C) of the Act). To begin participation in the title IV–E Kinship Navigator Program, a title IV–E agency must submit an attachment to its title IV–E plan that specifies the Kinship Navigator model it has chosen to implement, the date on which the provision of program services began or will begin, and that provides an assurance that the model meets the requirements of section 427(a)(1) of the Act as well as a brief narrative describing how the program will be operated. (Please see Program Instruction ACYF–CB–PI–18–11 for additional information.) In addition, as stated in the Transitional Payments for the Title IV-E Prevention and Family Services and Programs program instructions (ACYF-CB-PI-19-06) a state must complete and submit the checklist in Attachment B of the PI, with all required documentation, to request transitional payments for a title IV-E prevention program or service which has not yet been rated by the Clearinghouse. This request for a revision includes the addition of the title IV-E prevention services plan and the title IV-E plan attachment for the title IV-E kinship navigator program to the title IV-E plan information collection. There are no changes to the previously approved information collection.

US Code: 42 USC 671, 427(a), and 474(a)(7) Name of Law: Social Security Act
  
PL: Pub.L. 115 - 123 50711 and 50713 Name of Law: Title IV

Not associated with rulemaking

  84 FR 35391 07/23/2019
84 FR 54153 10/09/2019
No

  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 92 17 75 0 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 467 272 195 0 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yes
Changing Regulations
No
This information collection was last re-authorized 04/02/2019. Since then, changes to title IV–E necessitated by passage of Public Law 115–123, which included the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) and requires the addition of the title IV-E prevention services plan and the title IV-E plan attachment for the title IV-E kinship navigator program to the title IV-E plan information collection.

$32,690
No
    No
    No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Molly Buck 202 205-4724 mary.buck@acf.hhs.gov

  No

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.
10/09/2019


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