Region 4 (Atlanta)

Workforce Professionals: Important Child Welfare Preventative Services Partners

Pictured (Left to Right): Jerry Milner, Acting Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health Human Services (ACF/ACYF) and Associate Commissioner/Children’s Bureau, /Department of Health and Human Services/ (ACF)/(ACYF);Carlis V. Williams, Region IV, Regional Administrator, Department of Health and Human Services (ACF); and Winston Tompoe, Acting Regional Administrator, Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration (DOL/ETA)   The ACF Region 4 Regional Administrator (RA), Carlis Williams, met with workforce professionals at the 2019 Southeast Employment and Training Association (SETA) Spring Conference to discuss the broad needs and services that must be addressed if our nation is to successfully move vulnerable adults and families into self-sustaining employment and well-being; and on how this work can reduce foster care placements and help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.