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New proposed rules to improve child care were announced today by HHS’s  Administration for Children and Families.  The proposed rules increase health and safety requirements for child care programs and providers, make child care financial assistance more manageable for low-income working parents, improve and expand information all parents have about child care options, and ensuring more low-income children have access to high-quality child care. 

ACF awards funding to three organizations serving rural areas under a new demonstration grant program to develop, expand and strengthen coordinated case management and comprehensive direct victim assistance for victims of human trafficking in the United States.

As the winter months approach, over $3 billion in funding was announced today for energy assistance.

Five tribal entities have been awarded a total of $1.5 million in tribal Title IV-E plan development grants for foster care, adoption and guardianship assistance.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced today that they have joined together to establish a new National Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (Center of Excellence). 

Community-based programs to create savings plans for low-income families were awarded over $9.8 million.

Nearly $18 million in adoption incentive payments to child welfare agencies in 45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico were awarded Sept. 18, 2015.

October marks National Domestic Violence Prevention Month and today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and Indian Health Service (IHS) are announcing the award of nearly $21 million to support tribal domestic violence victims and organizations in American Indian and Alaska Native communities across the nation. 

Newly released data from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Administration on Children, Youth and Families show that while the number of children in foster care was on the decline for most of the last decade, the numbers in the last two years have increased at the national level.
 

ACF awarded $4.1 million in Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) funds to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The Hotline is the only national organization that provides crisis intervention, information and referral, advocacy, safety planning, emotional support, and counseling over the phone, through text messaging, and by online chat to both adult and youth victims of family violence, domestic violence or dating violence.