A Home for Every Child
ACF is changing the foster care ratio to have homes waiting on kids, not kids waiting on homes.
Press Releases & Coverage
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IN THE NEWS ·
Under Biden, This Agency Erased Fatherhood. Under Trump, It’s Going After Deadbeat Dads.
Under President Joe Biden, the Administration for Children and Families was best known for trying to replace “the gender-specific term ’paternity’ with the gender-neutral term ’parentage.’” Under President Donald Trump, the office is taking a different approach.
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ACF Reps to Visit Vermont to Highlight $200,000 Federal Fingerprinting Grant
The Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) has been awarded a one-time $200,000 federal grant from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to make fingerprinting easier for Vermonters seeking to become foster parents.
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IN THE NEWS ·
The Regulatory Dark Matter Beyond Washington’s Graveyard of Rules: 83,141 Ghosts and Counting
The clocks have turned back, the days are growing darker, and Washington’s regulatory shadows lengthen. Washington’s policy ghouls are waking up to the fact that some of the ghastliest regulatory chills come not from ordinary notice-and-comment regulations published in the daily Federal Register and entombed in the 186,000-page Code of Federal Regulations, but from something murkier and more frightening: federal agency guidance documents.
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IN THE NEWS ·
Keeping Families Healthy and Together with Dr. Alex Adams
On this episode, host Gil Bashe welcomes Dr. Alex Adams, Administrator at ACF at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. With experience in state government leadership, he is focused on strengthening child welfare systems and improving outcomes for vulnerable children and families. He and Gil discuss Dr. Adams’s journey from pharmacist to administrator of the ACF. They also explore his mission to help children in foster care find stability, support, and a brighter future at the source.
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IN THE NEWS ·
Can American Foster Care Be Fixed?
Washington has a really bad habit of mistaking paperwork for progress. In some places, like the billion forms needed to get a driver's license, this is simply annoying. But in programs meant to help children and families, pencil pushing masquerading as actual work is dangerous.
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IN THE NEWS ·
Excuse Me! What Is The Orphan Tax?
When a child loses a parent, Social Security pays them a survivor benefit their mom or dad earned through years of work. But if that child ends up in foster care, many states have been quietly taking that money for themselves. Tim Walz once said those benefits gave him dignity growing up. Minnesota is still one of 13 hold-out states stealing these funds from orphans today.