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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 153 / Thursday, August 12, 2021 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families Submission for OMB Review; Early Care and Education Leadership Study ExCELS Descriptive Study New Collection Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation OPRE within the Administration for Children and Families ACF at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services DHHS
seeks approval to collect information for the Early Care and Education Leadership Study ExCELS Descriptive Study.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a decision SUMMARY:
about the collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication of this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting Currently under 30-day ReviewOpen for Public Comments or by using the search function.
ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The ExCELS Descriptive Study is a new information collection to learn about what leadership looks like in center-based early care and education settings serving children whose ages range from birth to age 5, but not yet in kindergarten, and better understand
how leadership might improve center quality and outcomes for staff, children, and families. The goals of ExCELS are to 1 develop a short-form measure of early care and education leadership that has strong psychometric properties, and 2 examine empirical support for the associations among key constructs and outcomes in the studys theory of change of early care and education leadership for quality improvement. The study will recruit 120 centers that receive funding from Head Start or the Child Care and Development Fund, ask the primary site leader at the centers to participate in two interviews, and distribute surveys to select center managers and all teaching staff to test hypothesized associations between leadership constructs and outcomes in the studys theory of change.
Respondents: Management and teaching staff from center-based early care and education settings that receive funding from Head Start or the Child Care and Development Fund.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of respondents total over request period
Instrument
Center recruitment call script
Umbrella organization recruitment approval call script
Engagement interview guide
Staffing structure and leadership positions interview guide Teaching staff roster
Center manager survey
Teaching staff survey
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,010.
Authority: Authorized by the Head Start Act section 640 42 U.S.C. 9835
and section 649 42 U.S.C. 9844;
appropriated by the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2019; the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 section 658O 42 U.S.C. 9858, which also provides authority to use this discretionary funding for research;
appropriated by the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2019; and the Child Care and Development Block Grant CCDBG Act of 1990 as amended by the CCDBG Act of 2014 Pub. L. 113
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Number of responses per respondent total over request period
180
113
150
120
120
240
1,680
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families Proposed Information Collection Activity; Head Start Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed Care Program New Collection Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
The Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families ACF, is proposing to collect data for a new evaluation of a traumainformed care program that will include a small randomized controlled trial across 10 sites within Head Start Region V. The goals of the project are to identify the implementation supports
SUMMARY:
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Total burden in hours
59
37
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60
30
101
1,680
Annual burden in hours
30
19
25
30
15
51
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and methods needed to enable teachers to effectively implement TraumaInformed Care in early care and education programs, and to evaluate its outcomes. Information collected will be used to inform ongoing training and technical assistance TTA work provided by the Head Start Centers, particularly decisions regarding allocation of TTA resources. More generally, results may inform OHS
guidance around social-emotional programming.
Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described above.
DATES:
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