This blogpost by the Associate Commissioner of the Children’s Bureau identifies this year’s National Adoption Month theme as “Engage Youth: Listen and Learn” and features a link to the Adoption Month’s website, which provides resources to engage…

This fact sheet summarizes the features and functions of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation’s Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse, which offers reliable information about what works to help low-income job seekers find and keep…

This interactive set of continuously updated state profiles presents waivers that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service has granted for emergency allotments of SNAP and other funds to address food insecurity in light of…

The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will host a webinar on October 29, 2020 from 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. CT to discuss research findings on how the EITC contributes to intergenerational mobility and…

The Aspen Institute’s ASCEND initiative will host a webinar on October 28, 2020 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. ET to discuss the role of social capital as part of the 2Gen approach. Social capital, the “secret sauce” of the 2Gen approach, is…

The economic shocks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic along with social distancing and stay-at-home orders have dramatically reshaped the approach social service programs are taking to support employment for low-income populations. The Office…

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Office of Family Assistance hosted a webinar on October 28, 2020. A subject matter expert and a TANF program practitioner shared insights and recommendations for leveraging TANF to provide…

This dataset features FY2019 kinship caregiving profiles for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Data used in these profiles were retrieved from the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect. Some of the data featured…

This interactive mapping tool reflects the community factors associated with safe children and strong families. These factors include child and family well-being (children living in poverty and children without health insurance), educational…

This Administration for Children and Families fact sheet identifies the positive outcomes reported as a result of fathers involved in raising their children. It also outlines activities that the agency’s Fatherhood FIRE grants address, including…