July 19 -- The Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), invites public comment to OMB by August 18, 2023 regarding a revision of the Center for States Evaluation Ancillary Data Collection.
The Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative, Center for States is sponsored by the Children's Bureau (CB), Administration for Children and Families of HHS. The purpose of this evaluation is to respond to a set of cross-cutting evaluation questions posed by CB.
This existing information collection is an ancillary part of a larger data collection effort being conducted for the evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building 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. This notice details a group of instruments that are specific only to the Center for States. The instruments focus on (1) evaluating an innovative approach to engaging professionals in networking and professional development through virtual expos, (2) understanding fidelity to and effectiveness of the Center's Capacity Building Model, (3) capturing information about individualized support to jurisdictions, and (4) enhancing the Center's support focused on equity and lived experience. To date, this data collection and resulting findings have been used (a) to assess satisfaction with service delivery and make adjustments to improve quality, (b) to support professional development of child welfare professionals through improving the virtual expo experience, particularly during the pandemic, and (c) to support provision of effective and high-quality individualized support to jurisdictions.
Building Capacity to Evaluate Child Welfare Community Collaborations (CWCC) to Strengthen and Preserve Families
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/project/building-capacity-evaluate-child-welfare-community-collaborations-strengthen-and
ACF submission to OMB:
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202306-0970-013 Click IC List for information collection instrument, View Supporting Statement for technical documentation. Submit comments through this webpage.
FRN:
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-15311
For AEA members wishing to submit comments, "A Primer on How to Respond to Calls for Comment on Federal Data Collections" is available at
https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=5806