Dating Matters is a comprehensive approach to prevent teen dating violence among youth in high-risk urban communities. Dating Matters consists of evidence-based or evidence-informed prevention strategies implemented at each level of the social ecology. This revision identifies the need to decrease burden on schools by dropping the mid-year student survey. We believe that given the variation in implementation of the student curricula across schools (some classrooms in some schools will implement the curricula in the fall, some in the spring) and the added burden to schools, we could remove the mid-year survey without losing critical information about program effects. Therefore, the project is now requesting approval for these changes that resulted during the planning year as a function of finalizing the program materials, clarifying instructions, responding to school concerns, and shortening several instruments. Additionally, we are requesting to add the community advisory board capacity and readiness assessment in order to enhance implementation of the project.
US Code:
42 USC 301
Name of Law: Public Health Service Act
To be responsive to the schools' needs, we are proposing to drop the mid-year student survey. We are also requesting to add five new process evaluation instruments and one new version of an outcome evaluation instrument.
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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(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;
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