A Home for Every Child

A happy multigenerational family hugging and having fun outside.

Alex J. Adams, PharmD, MPH, serves as Assistant Secretary for Family Support, leading the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Assistant Secretary Adams brings years of health, human services, education, and regulatory expertise to advance President Trump and Secretary Kennedy’s broader vision to Make America Healthy Again. Prior to leading ACF, Dr. Adams spent more than ten years in Idaho State Government. He led the Governor’s zero-based regulation initiative, which resulted in Idaho becoming the least regulated state in the nation. Dr. Adams also made significant efforts to improve Idaho’s child welfare system, enacting kin-specific licensing standards, announcing paid family leave for foster parents, extending foster care to age 23, and overseeing record recruitment and retention of fost er homes. This webpage showcases resources that support the priorities identified by Assistant Secretary Adams.

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Kinship Navigator Programs Around the United States

Stakeholder Resource

Kinship navigator programs offer information, referrals, and follow-up services to kin caregivers to link them to benefits and services that can support them and the children they raise. Some of these programs are over twenty-five years old and…

How Do Helplines Support Children and Families?

Research-To-Practice Brief

Helplines provide referrals to community and government resources that support parents and other caregivers in raising their children safely and successfully. By connecting children and families to upstream services, helplines can be an effective…

The Power of Kinship Care

Stakeholder Resource

This Casey Family Programs webpage offers videos and resources that highlight data and research that support the benefits to child safety, permanency and well-being that kinship care can provide. This webpage also notes specific policies –…

Elders Connect with Youth

Research-To-Practice Brief

In American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities, Elders are highly respected and are referred to as the community’s leaders, teachers, keepers of knowledge, and role models to all. Elders ensure the continuation of traditional…

What Are Some Strategies for Finding and Keeping Resource Families?

Research-To-Practice Brief

Research shows that separating children from their families causes lasting trauma. Child protection agencies should exhaust all means to ensure children and families receive essential support to safely remain together. In instances when temporary…

The Kinship Navigator Program

Stakeholder Resource

The Family First Prevention Services Act enacted as part of Public Law 115 -123 amended Title IV-E to allow Title IV-E agencies the option to receive funding for evidence-based kinship navigator programs that meet certain criteria. Kinship…