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The new fatherhood videos highlight the big impacts that come from small moments shared by fathers and their children. SoulPancake, an award-winning digital media company, created the videos in partnership with HHS’ Administration for Children and Families, the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse, and the Ad Council.

Today, President Trump signed an executive order on economic mobility reforms that will guide the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) work to help more Americans move toward self-sufficiency.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) updated the numbers of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) released to sponsors. This monthly update now includes data from February 2018.

The Children’s Bureau at HHS' Administration for Children and Families (ACF) publishes the 27th edition of the Child Maltreatment Report, which analyzes data collected by state CPS agencies. The report is based on Fiscal Year 2016 data, which is the latest data available.

Newly released foster care and adoption data show an increase in the number of children in foster care and an increase in the number of adoptions from the U.S. child welfare system.

The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) are announcing a new research and evaluation collaboration to support and improve teen pregnancy prevention and sexual risk avoidance programs within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ACF and OASH have a shared responsibility to help improve our children’s future whether they are served by OASH’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP) or ACF’s Personal Responsibility and Education (PREP), Title V, or Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Programs.

New public service advertisements (PSA’s) launched by ACF's Children’s Bureau in partnership with the Ad Council, AdoptUSKids, and KBS, highlights the importance of adopting teens from foster care. They emphasize that adoptive and potential adoptive parents don't have to be perfect parents to adopt youth from foster care.

The restoration of work participation requirements under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was announced today with an information memorandum to states. Issued by ACF's Office of Family Assistance, the new policy rescinds a 2012 Obama administration information memorandum encouraging states to apply for exemptions from the longstanding work participation standards for welfare cash assistance programs.

Reinforcing the critical role fathers play in the lives of their children is the focus of a new series of public service announcements (PSAs) released today by HHS’ Administration for Children and Families.

HHS' Administration for Children and Families releases the 26^th edition of the Child Maltreatment Report, which analyzes data collected by state child protective services (CPS) agencies.