Biography of Wade F. Horn
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Wade F. Horn, Ph.D. was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary for
Children and Families in the Administration for Children and Families,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on July 30, 2001. The
Administration for Children and Families is responsible for programs
that promote the social and economic well-being of families.
ACF’s programs include Temporary Assistance to Needy
Families, foster care, adoption assistance, family preservation and
support, Head Start, child care, child support enforcement, runaway
and homeless youth, low income home energy assistance, community
services, refugee resettlement, mental retardation and developmental
disabilities, and community services.
Prior to this appointment, Dr. Horn was President of the National
Fatherhood Initiative, whose mission is to improve the well-being of
children by increasing the number of children growing up with
involved, committed and responsible fathers in their lives.
From 1989-1993, Dr. Horn was the Commissioner for Children, Youth and
Families and Chief of the Children’s Bureau in the
Administration on Children, Youth and Families. He also served as a
Presidential appointee to the National Commission on Children from
1990-1993, was a member of the National Commission on Childhood
Disability from 1994-1995, and the U.S. Advisory Board on Welfare
Indicators from 1996-1997. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Horn was
the Director of Outpatient Psychological Services at the
Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.,
and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at
George Washington University. From 1993 to 2001, Dr. Horn was also an
adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University’s Public Policy
Institute, and an affiliate scholar with the Hudson Institute.
Dr. Horn is the author of numerous articles on children and family
issues, including a weekly newspaper column entitled Fatherly
Advice, and is the co-author of several books including The
Better Homes and Gardens New Father Book (Meredith Books, 1998)
and The Better Homes and Gardens New Teen Book (Meredith
Books, 1999.) He is also the lead editor of The Fatherhood
Movement: A Call to Action (Lexington Books, 1998.)
Dr. Horn is frequently featured on television and radio as a child
development expert and commentator. He has appeared on NBC’s
Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This
Morning, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, 20/20, 48
Hours, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, NBC Nightly
News, CNBC, Fox News Channel, CNN and
MS-NBC.
Dr. Horn received his Ph.D. in clinical child psychology from Southern
Illinois University in 1981. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with
his wife and two daughters.
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