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ACF's Dallas Regional Office focuses on children and the early childhood development community during emergency planning conference.

Helping to answer President Obama’s call to ensure quality early education for every American child, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed today a new regulation for public comment that will better ensure children’s health and safety in child care and promote school readiness. Under the proposed rule, states, territories and tribes would be required to strengthen their standards to better promote the health, safety and school readiness of children in federally funded child care.

ACF headquarters joined by Regional offices in a first-ever combined face-to-face and virtual Tribal Consultation.

ACF programs are joining the fight for healthy and food secure American Indian and Alaska Native children and families.

Improving the quality and access of early care and education programs yields long-term benefits for our nation’s future.

20,000 children under the age of 5 in the United States are hospitalized annually with flu-related complications.

Infecting about 10 to 15 million Americans each year, enteroviruses are very common, especially during the summer and fall months.

Three recent briefs focus on categorizing quality improvement efforts, collecting quality data, and building strong systems to govern and manage that data.

Office of Child Care has issued policy guidance encouraging CCDF administrators to adopt policies that promote continuity.

This Information Memorandum provides guidance to assist Lead Agencies in the development of comprehensive emergency preparedness and response plans for child care and the CCDF program. The Office of Child Care (OCC) recommends that each Lead Agency develop a plan to address preparedness, response, and recovery efforts specific to child care services and programs. In addition to this guidance, Attachment A provides resources from OCC and other partner agencies and organizations that are available to assist Lead Agencies in emergency preparedness and response planning.