Federal HHS/ACYF/CB

This is a letter from Jerry Milner, Associate Commissioner of Children’s Bureau, adresses child welfare leaders regarding the availability of federal funding and other resources to assist with the purchase... (Read more)

Are you interested in evaluating a child welfare program or service? Join child welfare evaluation experts for the Evidence-Building Academy (the Academy), offered at no cost to participants. The Academy... (Read more)

In this letter from Children’s Bureau Associate Commissioner, Jerry Milner, he addresses child welfare leaders. He urges child welfare leaders to work with emergency management and public health leaders to... (Read more)

Children's Bureau released this Program Instruction (PI) to provide guidance to title IV-E agencies that on September 30, 2019 were operating a title IV-E child welfare waiver demonstration project under... (Read more)

This letter from Children's Bureau addresses the fingerprint-based criminal record check requirements of §471(a)(20)(A), (C), and of the Social Security Act (the Act). As well as the requirement that 50... (Read more)

The Children’s Bureau has issued new guidance to highlight and strongly encourage court leaders to engage Court Improvement Programs (CIPs) in assisting dependency courts to respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019... (Read more)

Millner informs you of changes in the Children’s Bureau’s plans for conducting Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews (IV-E Reviews) and National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) Reviews. Read more... (Read more)

Children's Bureau released new Program Instruction (PI) to provide instruction and procedures to title IV-E agencies on how to request flexibility to meet the specific title IV-E requirements noted in... (Read more)

Children's Bureau released this Information Memorandum (IM) to inform title IV-B/IV-E agencies of the enactment of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the CARES Act and to provide basic... (Read more)

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) recognizes the severe impact of COVID-19 on our grantee community. This page centralizes ACF-wide guidance as it pertains to recipients, i.e., grantees, and... (Read more)