Families
ACF Programs and Services for Families
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
ACF supports state, Tribal, and community efforts to promote comprehensive sex education, adulthood preparation programs, and abstinence education.
Adoption
ACF helps eliminate barriers to adoption and find permanent families for children.
Child Care
ACF supports working families by providing access to affordable, high-quality early care and afterschool programs.
Child Support
ACF partners with federal, state, tribal, and local governments to promote parental responsibility so children receive support from both parents even when they live in separate households.
Domestic Violence Awareness
ACF health and social service programs are committed to addressing domestic violence and raising national awareness about the impact of domestic violence on the lives of children, youth, women, and men.
Family Violence Prevention & Services
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Program administers the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), the primary federal funding stream dedicated to the support of emergency shelter and related assistance for victims of domestic violence and their children.
Foster Care
ACF provides funding to states and tribes to provide safe foster care placements for children and youth who cannot remain in their homes.
Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services
The guide provides local, State, Tribal, and Territorial human services leaders and professionals with information and resources on recent advances in our understanding of trauma, toxic stress, and executive functioning.
Head Start
Head Start provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.
Health Profession Opportunity Grants
Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) provide education and training to individuals for occupations in the health care field that pay well and are expected to either experience labor shortages or be in high demand.
Healthy Marriage & Responsible Fatherhood
ACF provides grants to agencies and organizations working to help participants build and sustain healthy relationships and marriages, and to strengthen positive father-child interaction.
Runaway & Homeless Youth
ACF supports street outreach, emergency shelters, and longer-term transitional living and maternal group home programs to serve and protect runaways and homeless youth.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program helps families foster economically secure households and communities for the well-being and long-term success of children and families.
Research
ACF’s Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation studies ACF programs and the populations they serve through rigorous research and evaluation projects.
