• 12/23/04 - HHS Provides $100 Million to States for Energy Aid
  

• 12/21/04 - Committee Empowers People with Intellectual Disabilities
  

• 11/23/04 - HHS Honors 17 Groups, Individuals for Adoption Excellence
  

• 11/17/04 - New Reports Reveal Promising Strategies to Strengthen Tribal Families
  

• 10/14/04 - HHS Awards $17,896,000 in Adoption Bonuses
  

• 10/12/04 - HHS Awards $200,000,000 in High Performance Bonuses
  

• 10/07/04 - Welfare Rolls Fall Under Two Million
  

• 10/07/04 - HHS Provides $1.2 Billion to States for Energy Aid
  

• 10/01/04 - HHS Awards over $1M to Four Iowa Organizations
  

• 9/30/04 - HHS Awards $100M for Reduction in Out-Of-Wedlock Births
  

• 9/23/04 - HHS Awards $900,000 For Healthy Marriage Resource Center
  

• 9/15/04 - HHS Awards $800,000 to Diocese for Abstinence Education
  

• 9/10/04 - Minnesota Child Welfare Waiver Approved
  

• 9/1/04 - ANA Commissioner Quanah Crossland Stamps to Address Annual Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement Conference
  

• 8/27/04 - Healthy Marriage Education Offered To ACF Employees
  

• 8/26/04 - ANA Commissioner to Visit Alaska: Announces New Grants
  

• 8/24/04 - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Partners with National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to Assist Child Victims of Human Trafficking
  

• 8/23/04 - Secretary Thompson Announces TANF Caseloads Declined in 2003
  

• 8/11/04 - New Report on Strengthening Unwed Parents’ Relationships
  

• 8/3/04 - President Announces $43 Million in Grants from Compassion Capital Fund
  

• 8/3/04 - President Announces Mentoring Grants for Children of Prisoners
  

• 8/2/04 - Grants for Child Support Development Projects Awarded
  

• 7/28/04 - State Leaders Gather at 13th Annual Child Care Meeting
  

• 7/28/04 - Comprehensive Framework for Healthy Marriage Education
  

• 7/19/04 - Tribal Groups to Receive $1.689 Million to Provide Mentors for Children of Prisoners
  

• 7/15/04 - HHS Launches New Campaign to Encourage Adoption of Children From Foster Care
  

• 7/9/04 - Head Start Management Initiative Helping to Strengthen Early Education
  

• 7/9/04 - Welfare-to-Work Study Underscores Benefits of State Flexibility
  

• 6/25/04 - Initial Results of National Survey of Children in Foster Care
  

• 6/22/04 - HHS Provides States Funding to Help Resettle Hmong Refugees
  

• 6/14/04 - Report Highlights Model for Protecting Children, Underscores Importance of Flexible Federal Funds
  

• 6/9/04 - Social Services Block Grant Supports Child Welfare, Disabilities Services
  

• 5/13/04 - HHS Issues Head Start Management Initiative
  

• 4/29/04 - ACF Announces Grant Availability for Healthy Marriage Resource Center
  

• 4/29/04 - ACF Approves Child Support Demonstrations in Four States
  

• 4/21/04 - HHS To Award $50,000 Faith-Based, Community Grants
  

• 4/6/04 - HHS, DHS Sign Statement of Principles on Unaccompanied Alien Children
  

• 4/1/04 - HHS Releases 2002 National Statistics on Child Abuse and Neglect
  

• 3/31/04 - Child Support Effectiveness Cited By OMB
  

• 3/30/04 - HHS Issues Final Rule on Funding Tribal Child Support Enforcement Programs
  

• 3/30/04 - Welfare Rolls Drop Again
  

• 3/25/04 - HHS Awards $2.9 Million To Support 30 Head Start Innovation Projects
  

• 3/22/04 - HHS Announces Intention to Form an Independent Panel to Help Assess First Year Implementation of Head Start National Reporting System
  

• 3/19/04 - HHS To Award $7 Million to Intermediary Organizations to Improve the Capacity of Smaller Faith-Based and Community Organizations
  

• 3/17/04 - HHS's Heller A Federal Computer Week Top "Federal 100" Executive
  

• 3/11/04 - HHS Announces Anti-Trafficking Hotline, Awareness Effort
  

• 3/05/04 - HHS Synthesis Report Confirms That Increases in Parental Employment Are Not Harmful To Children
  

• 2/05/04 - Steve Hilton, President of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, To Receive Award for Helping Infants and Toddlers in Head Start Programs
  

• 2/05/04 - HHS Releases $191.5 Million To Help Low-Income Families With Home Heating Costs
  

• 1/16/04 - Head Start Programs to Get More Time to Implement Transportation Regulations
  

• 1/16/04 - ACF 2003 Accomplishments
  

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