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Esta hoja informativa proporciona una lista de recursos para padres y familias.

Esta hoja informativa proporciona consejos sobre la crianza de los hijos.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is committed to supporting the economic and social well-being of children and families. ACF programs aim to empower families, support the development of children, and encourage strong, healthy communities.

This guide provides a listing and details of services for fathers and families. 

There are plenty of myths about human trafficking including what it is, who can experience it, and what happens in a trafficking situation. This article dispels common myths about human trafficking and provides research-based facts.  

This interactive guide and the accompanying full toolkit (PDF) provide practitioners with user-friendly, hands-on resources to support the implementation of new program components or services. The resources are organized into three main sections that correlate with major phases of the process, Ready, Set, and Go!, each of which involves several substeps.

For child support to be a reliable source of income for children, parents who are incarcerated need child support orders that reflect actual income. This chart, which reviews practices, laws, and policies in different jurisdictions, is a companion to the “Realistic Child Support Orders for Incarcerated Parents” fact sheet, PAID fact sheet No. 4.

For child support to be a reliable source of income for children, parents who are incarcerated need child support orders that reflect actual income. This fact sheet highlights opportunities to encourage incarcerated parents to engage with the child support system, to reduce or suspend orders during incarceration to avoid arrears, and to offer post-incarceration child support services.

This factsheet explores what foster caregivers can do to work with the birth families of the children in their care to promote reunification. This may include actively communicating with the birth parents, the caseworker, and the agency; accessing help from a variety of sources; cultivating trust and compassion; and maintaining contact with families after reunification or other permanency. (Author abstract)

Several decades of research on the impact that fathers have on the lives of children demonstrate that fathers have a significant influence on their children’s lives—whether by virtue of their presence, or by their absence. We designed this toolkit for professionals working to establish healthy relationships with fathers to improve service and/or program engagement. It includes a full complement of tools to help you use this film in your work. (Author abstract, modified)