Section 511 of the Social Security
Act, created the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting Program (MIECHV) and authorized the Secretary of the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (in Section
511(h)(2)(A)) to award grants to Indian tribes (or a consortium of
Indian tribes), tribal organizations, or urban Indian organizations
to conduct an early childhood home visiting program. The
legislation set aside 3 percent of the total MIECHV program
appropriation for grants to tribal entities. The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Care, in collaboration
with the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and
Child Health Bureau, awards grants for the Tribal MIECHV Program.
The Tribal MIECHV grant awards support 5-year cooperative
agreements to implement high-quality, culturally-relevant,
evidence-based home visiting programs in at-risk Tribal
communities. Tribal MIECHV grants, to the greatest extent
practicable, are to be consistent with the requirements of the
MIECHV grants to states and jurisdictions (authorized in Section
511(c)), and include conducting a needs assessment and establishing
quantifiable, measurable benchmarks. Specifically, the MIECHV
legislation requires State and Tribal MIECHV grantees to collect
data to measure improvements for eligible families in six specified
areas (referred to as "benchmark areas") that encompass the major
goals for the program. As part of their implementation plans,
Tribal MIECHV grantees are required to propose a plan for meeting
the benchmark requirements specified in the legislation and must
report performance data to HHS, with improvement assessed at the
end of Year 4 and Year 5 of their 5-year grants. The Tribal Home
Visiting (HV) Form 2 provides a template for Tribal MIECHV grantees
to report data on their progress in improving performance under the
six benchmark areas, as stipulated in the legislation. The purpose
of this information collection request is to renew the existing
approval under OMB No.: 0970-0500 so ACF can continue to use Tribal
MIECHV Form 2.
US Code:
44
USC 711 Name of Law: Social Security Act, Title V, Section
511
PL:
Pub.L. 114 - 10 511(h)(2)(A) Name of Law: Medicare Access and
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of
2015
The number of respondents has
been updated from 20 to 23 based on the current number of
grantees.
$86,200
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).
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the proposed collection of information, that the certification
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benefit, or mandatory);
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