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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) promotes the economic and social well-being of children, families, and communities across the country. As part of this mission, ACF actively listens to and engages with those it serves to ensure the compassionate and effective delivery of human services. The ACF Parent Engagement Report summarizes recent listening sessions ACF held with parents and caregivers from diverse backgrounds who have a range of experiences with ACF programs. The report shares a glimpse into the insights that parents shared from each of these listening sessions and highlights a few examples of how ACF has been and continues to be responsive to their feedback and recommendations.

This Dear Colleague Letter highlights recent ACF efforts to strengthen strategic partnerships with people with lived experience, including a new resource that overviews how ACF has engaged and utilized insight from parents and caregivers to improve programs, resources, and services for children and families.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) promotes the economic and social well-being of children, families, and communities across the country. As part of this mission, ACF actively listens to and engages with those it serves to ensure the compassionate and effective delivery of human services. The ACF Parent Engagement Report summarizes recent listening sessions ACF held with parents and caregivers from diverse backgrounds who have a range of experiences with ACF programs. The report shares a glimpse into the insights that parents shared from each of these listening sessions and highlights a few examples of how ACF has been and continues to be responsive to their feedback and recommendations.

As Assistant Secretary January Contreras ends her tenure leading the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), ACF is highlighting some of the work that she has been a part of supporting and advancing. 

We remain committed to partnering across ACF, with our grant recipients, and the field to design innovative solutions that help the human services sector recruit, develop, care for, and retain the workforce needed to support children and families everywhere.

In support of ACF’s mission and strategic plan, ACF has developed a set of materials intended for specific subgroups of program participants, prospective participants, and their communities to help them understand the array of programs and resources that may be able to assist them. 

ACF Assistant Secretary Contreras shares updates and highlights across the agency during the month of June.

This month, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) observed World Day Against Child Labor by spotlighting and encouraging those, who could, to join the Within and Beyond Our Borders: Collective Action to Address Hazardous Child Labor organized by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on June 12, 2023. If you missed it, or would like to rewatch it, you can find it here .

April reflections from Assistant Secretary Contreras