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Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal
agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations
to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child
care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating
to children and families.
Actual services are provided by state, county, city
and tribal governments, and public and private local agencies.
ACF assists these organizations through funding, policy direction,
and information services.
National Campaign to Encourage Adoption
HHS Secretary, Tommy G. Thompson (right), with Assistant Secretary
for Children and Families Dr. Wade F. Horn, at the Collaboration
to AdoptUSKids conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
in Washington, DC, July 15. Families from around the country
that have adopted children from foster care helped ACF unveil
this new campaign to encourage the adoption of children.
With a significant number of children in the U.S. foster care system in need of permanent, loving homes, a new campaign entitled "Answering the Call: A National Campaign to Encourage Adoption of Children from Foster Care" was unveiled to increase public awareness and encourage adoption of children from the foster care system.
HHS Secretary, Tommy G. Thompson (right), with Assistant Secretary
for Children and Families Dr. Wade F. Horn, at the Collaboration
to AdoptUSKids conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
in Washington, DC, July 15. Families from around the country
that have adopted children from foster care helped ACF unveil
this new campaign to encourage the adoption of children.
