This page features various ACF policies covering a range of issues and concerns.
- ACF Plan for the Recruitment, Hiring, Advancement, and Retention of Persons with Disabilities
- Architectural Barriers Act
- Comment, Privacy, and Link Policies
- Efficient Spending Policy
- Employment Policies
- Evaluation Policy
- Grants to Faith-Based Organizations
- Reasonable Accommodations Policy and Procedures
ACF Plan for the Recruitment, Hiring, Advancement, and Retention of Persons with Disabilities
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is committed to supporting and cultivating top talent to meet the human services needs of our communities by promoting a qualified, inclusive, and diverse workforce, which includes people with disabilities. The agency annually issues an affirmative action plan for persons with disabilities (PWD) and persons with targeted disabilities (PWTD), describing how to improve the recruitment, hiring, advancement, and retention of applicants and employees with disabilities.
View the FY23 Plan for the Recruitment, Hiring, Advancement, and Retention of Persons with Disabilities (PDF)
Architectural Barriers Act
Per the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) of 1968 , facilities must be accessible if they’re designed, built, altered, or leased with federal funds. The U.S. Access Board has accessibility standards and enforces the ABA.
To file a complaint:
If you believe that an Administration for Children and Families (ACF) facility doesn’t comply with the ABA, you can file a complaint with the U.S. Access Board.
Efficient Spending Policy
As an operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services, ACF is committed to complying with OMB/HHS policies that promote efficient and effective spending of appropriated funds.
- HHS Policy on Promoting Efficient Spending (January 23, 2015): Use of Appropriated Funds for Conferences and Meetings, Food, Promotional Items, and Printing and Publications
- FY22 Conference Spending: this report includes information about conferences held by ACF where costs exceed $100,000.
Employment Policies
The Administration for Children and Families strives to become a model employer, with a culture that values fairness, diversity and inclusion in the workforce. Learn more about our employment policies:
Evaluation Policy
ACF is committed to conducting and using evidence from evaluations to inform policy and practice. ACF seeks to promote rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics in the conduct of evaluations. Our evaluation policy addresses each of these principles.
- View the evaluation policy
Grants to Faith-Based Organizations
The faith-based grant policy for HHS’ Administration for Children and Families is currently under review. Thank you for your patience.
Reasonable Accommodations Policy and Procedures
ACF is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to its employees and applicants for employment in order to assure that individuals with disabilities enjoy full access to equal employment opportunity at ACF.
Comment, Privacy, and Link Policies
We encourage engagement with the public and our stakeholders. To maintain a respectful dialogue and manage expectations, we've posted the guidelines of our comment, privacy, and link policies that apply to all ACF digital platforms and social media channels.
In short:
We retain the discretion to determine which comments violate our comment policy. We also reserve the right to remove and/or not allow comments.
Privacy Policy
We collect no information about you, other than information automatically collected and stored, when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information to us.