Center for States Evaluation
Ancillary Data Collection
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
07/19/2023
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
09/30/2023
3,585
4,319
381
390
0
0
The Child Welfare Capacity Building
Collaborative, Center for States (the Center) is sponsored by the
Children’s Bureau (CB) in the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
and seeks approval for a revision of an existing data collection.
The proposed information collection is necessary to facilitate,
track, monitor, and evaluate the activities of the Center for
States, part of the Capacity Building Collaborative (“The
Collaborative.”) The Collaborative includes three federally funded
centers (Center for States, Center for Tribes, and Center for
Courts) that deliver national child welfare expertise and
evidence-informed training and technical assistance services to
state, tribal, and territorial public child welfare agencies and
Court Improvement Programs (CIP). The Center for State’s (the
Center) goal is to build the capacities of public child welfare
systems to successfully undertake practice, organizational, and
systemic reforms necessary to implement federal policies, meet
federal standards, and achieve better outcomes for the children,
youth, and families they serve. The proposed information collection
is necessary to facilitate, track, monitor, and evaluate the
Center’s service delivery. This revised information collection will
allow CB to better understand the services delivered to
jurisdictions, the impact of services provided, the quality of
services, and support improved infusion of equity and lived
expertise into services provided. The proposed information
collection includes minor changes to the previous estimates of
annualized burden hours and costs to reflect updated response
estimates, addition of questions focused on equity and lived
expertise, and revisions to reflect updated Center services (e.g.,
reduced instruments/questions, added
instruments/questions).
Estimates of response burden
are outlined in Table 1. We have revised the burden estimates from
initial approval to account for lower than expected response rates
for most instruments during previous administration of instruments
as well as the elimination and addition of instruments to reflect
programmatic changes. For most instruments that are continued in
this package, the total number of respondents estimated is lower in
this submission compared to the previous submission with two
exceptions. The estimated total respondents increased from 225 to
300 for the Child Welfare Virtual Expo Exit Survey and the
estimated total respondents increased from 1,000 to 3,000 for the
Child Welfare Virtual Expo Registration Form due to unexpected
increases in Virtual Expo attendance. We also updated labor rate to
calculate costs to respondents, to reflect the most current (2022)
data.
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 Annual Assessment Update (8 systematic questions)
SSB - CfS Eval Ancillary IC_fnl 6.26.23.docx
Peer Group Focus Group Protocol