Quick Facts

    • 30,000

      Individuals Reached by Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program

      The Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program reaches TANF recipients and other low-income individuals, providing education, training and other services leading to occupations in the health care field.

    • 4,463,752

      Individuals Receiving TANF Assistance Monthly

      This includes individuals from 1,881,202 families.

    • Homeless Woman
      17.2 Million

      Women living in poverty

      Based on an analysis of 2010 Census data by the National Women’s Law Center. The poverty rate among women climbed from 13.9 percent in 2009 to 14.5

    • Text reads 78,116 young people in crisis received help by calling the National Runaway Safeline in 2012

      The Family and Youth Services Bureau has funded NRS to be its national communication system since 1974.

    • Image of a bus with text that reads over 14,000 youth have gotten home safely

      through the National Runaway Safeline's Home Free bus ticket program since 1995.

      The Family and Youth Services Bureau considers the safety of runaway and homeless youth one of its four core outcomes.

    • Image of a graduate with text that reads 1,213 young people graduated with skills to succeed

      from Transitional Living programs and Maternity Group Homes funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau in 2011.

    • Image of a teen girl with text that reads "Teen Pregnancy in a "winnable battle"

      according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

      Learn more about CDC's Winnable Battle priority around teen pregnancy prevention.

    • The median annual household income for Head Start children in fall 2009 was $22,714.

      The median annual household income for Head Start children in fall 2009 was $22,714.

    • Text reads 1,159 youth learned skills to be better parents

      through Maternity Group Homes funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau in 2011.

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