Impacting the Future Initiatives
Region IV has eight Impacting the Future Initiatives that will complement program areas and include activities around collaboration geared toward producing positive outcomes at the local, state and federal levels with the primary objective of enhancing the lives of children and families in the southeast.
Focusing on the development of outreach initiatives which will inform minority communities of ACF activities in order to establish on-going partnerships and explore approaches for improving customer services, with special emphasis on Hispanic families and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Identifying issues and challenges for moving unemployed fathers into lasting work; proposing strategies for improving existing processes; and examining the non-monetary, emotional supports fathers provide to children and how more active participation in these areas may be encouraged.
3. Maximizing Services to At-Risk Youth Means:
Sharing models of collaboration with existing programs; encouraging grantees to develop new ways of removing barriers; and fully utilizing resources to assist young people achieve independence.
4. Developmental Disabilities Interface Means:
Seeking to identify and bring together all significant Federal partners involved with the DD population; evaluate the well being of the developmental disabilities population within the Southeast Hub; and establish joint goals for heightening awareness of challenges facing the DD population and increasing the availability of supportive services.
5. Making a Difference Through TANF Means:
Identifying approaches and broad-based strategies for assisting parents to remove barriers to work, education, training, or work experience needed to secure better paying jobs; and reduce poverty among families and children.
6. Impacting the 21st Century Means:
Developing a strategic plan to improve the quality of preschool services to both the children and their parents in five key areas: business management, technology, human resources, quality enhancement and partnerships.
7. Extended Services - Head
Start and Child Care Means:
Focusing on the goal of expanding services in local Head Start programs through partnerships with other agencies to meet the child care needs of working parents whose children are enrolled in Head Start.
8. Reinvention of ACF
- Staff Development and Resource Maximization Means:
Enhancing staff development, intensifying internal collaborations across our programs in order to increase productivity, and maximizing the capability of staff to be a high-performing, customer focused organization that values its partners and empowers employees to achieve results.