ACF at 25: Impacting People, Affecting Change, Empowering Families

ACF at 25: Impacting People, Affecting Change, Empowering Families

April 18, 2016

By: Mark Greenberg, Acting Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families

Twenty-five years ago, on April 15, 1991, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) was born. ACF was created to bring together a wide range of programs for children, families and communities, under a single division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan explained at the time: "For the first time, the government will have a single agency bringing together the many child and family programs." In doing so, a key goal was to encourage existing federal programs, now under the same roof, to find ways to work with each other to address the needs of the same populations being served.
Much has changed in the 25 years since ACF was established, but not our commitment to bring together the diverse programs under ACF's jurisdictions in our coordinated efforts to help children and their families.

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