Regional Partnership Grants (RPG) National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation Technical Assistance
Reinstatement with change of a previously approved collection
No
Regular
06/13/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
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The Children’s Bureau (CB), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is requesting revisions to the approved information collection: Regional Partnership Grants (RPG) National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation Technical Assistance (OMB #0970-0527). The proposed information collection will be used in a national cross-site evaluation of the seventh cohort of Children’s Bureau’s Regional Partnership Grants (RPG7).
Specifically, this request is to extend approval of the majority of the currently approved instruments, remove two information collections, and add two information collections. This will allow CB to continue to conduct site visits, administer a web-based sustainability survey, and collect data on participants’ enrollment, service use, and outcomes. The addition of individual interviews and focus groups with adult participants enrolled in RPG services will allow for the first time the cross-site evaluation to include participants’ own voices to describe their experiences receiving RPG services. CB is removing the partnership survey, which will no longer be administered to grantees and the semiannual progress reports (SAPRs) which are now approved under a separate OMB number (0970-0490).
PL:
Pub.L. 112 - 34 436(b)
Name of Law: The Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act (Pub. L. 112-34)
This request is to continue data collection under OMB #0970-0527 using the previously approved instruments and to add two new data collection activities: individual interviews and focus groups with participants enrolled in RPG services. This new data collection allows us to add participants’ descriptions of their experiences receiving services to the cross-site evaluation findings. We have also edited one item in Appendix F related to participant engagement with services to attempt to improve the response variability and data quality for these questions as compared to prior cohorts. We have also made minor wording changes to Appendix F to comply with the recent Executive Order 14168 (Defending Women), such as updating all relevant data collection fields to include the term “sex.”
We plan to drop the previously approved partnership survey as we have learned from prior rounds that the grantees and partner interviews during the site visits can sufficiently answer the partnership analyses research questions about cross-sector collaboration and the make-up of RPG partnerships.
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.
Appendix K_Sustainability Survey FAQ.docx
Site visit and key informant data collection: Focus groups with participants enrolled in RPG services (Appendix D)