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OMB Control No: 0970-0541	ICR Reference No: 202210-0970-010
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202209-0970-004
Agency/Subagency: HHS/ACF	Agency Tracking No: OPRE
Title: OPRE Evaluation: Building Capacity to Evaluate Child Welfare Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families (CWCC) Cross-Site Process Evaluation [Process Evaluation]
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 02/16/2023
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 11/01/2022
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	02/28/2025	24 Months From Approved	02/28/2023
Responses	1,278	0	1,027
Time Burden (Hours)	744	0	644
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: In 2018, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Children’s Bureau awarded the first round of funding for Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families (also referred to as Child Welfare Community Collaborations [CWCC]) grantees. A second cohort of CWCC grantees was funded in FY2019. A main goal of the CWCC grants is to improve systems to prevent child abuse and neglect. In an effort to understand how grantees used grant funding to address the goals and requirements outlined in the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), ACF launched this CWCC cross-site process evaluation of the CWCC grantees in 2020. This evaluation is necessary for ACF to understand how CWCC grantees implement primary prevention practices to reduce child abuse and neglect, and to identify factors that can promote or impede cross-agency collaboration. ACF contracted with Abt Associates and Child Trends to conduct a cross-site process evaluation of the CWCC grantees. This current request is to allow the Contractor to complete data collection activities as designed in order to answer ACF’s study research questions. To date, three of four planned waves of data collection have been conducted with one cohort of grantees and two of four planned waves of data collection with the second cohort of grantees have been conducted. The third wave of data collection focuses on grantees’ strategies and activities at full implementation, while the fourth wave of data collection targets grantees’ plans and strategies for sustaining project activities after funding has ended. Collecting the third and fourth waves of data will enable ACF to answer key research questions about both implementation and sustainability that would not be answered if the data collection is not conducted. Each wave of data collection includes a brief survey about collaboration and a site visit (virtual or in-person) during which Contractor staff interview leaders and staff from the CWCC lead grantees’ and partners’ organizations as well as observing key project activities.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 42 USC 5106(b)(5) Name of Law: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1978, as amended by PL 111-320

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	87 FR 52387	08/25/2022
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	87 FR 65595	10/31/2022
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	1,278	1,027	-52	303
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	744	644	-65	165
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Short Statement: This request includes an increase in burden on the previously approved Annual Collaboration Survey (Instrument 2). Exhibits A-3 and A-4 show the remaining burden for the previously approved information collections that are still active (Instruments 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7).

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $1,151,710

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Molly Buck 202 205-4724 mary.buck@acf.hhs.gov

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