The National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families will host a webinar on October 10, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET to discuss strategies for supporting parents of children with special needs. Presenters will share tips on what…

This set of Child Trends fact sheets identifies changes in the use of child care assistance on a state-by-state basis as a result of increases in Child Care and Development Block grant funding in FY2015. The fact sheets highlight changes in state…

This Administration for Children and Families blogpost, authored by the ACF Assistant Secretary, highlights a listening tour that provided the public an opportunity to discuss the challenge of improving access and increasing the affordability of…

This Brookings Institution report from the Hamilton Project examines the reasons behind the decline in labor force participation over the last two years. The analysis identifies trends in labor force participation by age, gender, race, and…

This Office of Family Assistance dataset identifies combined federal TANF and state maintenance-of-effort (MOE) expenditures at national and state levels. The dataset, which includes tables and national and state pie charts, illustrates how the TANF…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation literature survey identifies research conducted by the Division of Child and Family Development in fiscal year 2018. It covers projects that examine early childhood research, child care, Head Start…

This recorded webinar from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation assists Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) staff and partners in how to use administrative data to answer questions from external constituencies, including state legislators…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation literature review is an updated guide to annotated resources that support the research and evaluation capacity of Child Care and Development Fund lead agencies. Subjects included in this guide are:…

More than half the caseload of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program consists of child-only cases, in which a child receives TANF cash assistance but the parent or caregiver does not. The most common type of child-only case…

This blogpost, authored by the Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), describes the 10 listening sessions that ACF held nationally among key stakeholders to address family homelessness. These stakeholders, who…