A Home for Every Child

A happy multigenerational family hugging and having fun outside.

Alex J. Adams, PharmD, MPH, serves as Assistant Secretary for Family Support, leading the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Assistant Secretary Adams brings years of health, human services, education, and regulatory expertise to advance President Trump and Secretary Kennedy’s broader vision to Make America Healthy Again. Prior to leading ACF, Dr. Adams spent more than ten years in Idaho State Government. He led the Governor’s zero-based regulation initiative, which resulted in Idaho becoming the least regulated state in the nation. Dr. Adams also made significant efforts to improve Idaho’s child welfare system, enacting kin-specific licensing standards, announcing paid family leave for foster parents, extending foster care to age 23, and overseeing record recruitment and retention of fost er homes. This webpage showcases resources that support the priorities identified by Assistant Secretary Adams.

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The Power of Kinship Care

Stakeholder Resource

This Casey Family Programs webpage offers videos and resources that highlight data and research that support the benefits to child safety, permanency and well-being that kinship care can provide. This webpage also notes specific policies –…

Elders Connect with Youth

Research-To-Practice Brief

In American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities, Elders are highly respected and are referred to as the community’s leaders, teachers, keepers of knowledge, and role models to all. Elders ensure the continuation of traditional…

Improving Food Security in Kinship/Grandfamilies 

Webinar / Webcast

With the significant increase in the cost of food, some grandfamilies and kinship families, especially those on fixed incomes, may not have ample food to feed their growing family.  Federal nutrition programs can help kin caregivers stretch…

What Are Some Strategies for Finding and Keeping Resource Families?

Research-To-Practice Brief

Research shows that separating children from their families causes lasting trauma. Child protection agencies should exhaust all means to ensure children and families receive essential support to safely remain together. In instances when temporary…

The Kinship Navigator Program

Stakeholder Resource

The Family First Prevention Services Act enacted as part of Public Law 115 -123 amended Title IV-E to allow Title IV-E agencies the option to receive funding for evidence-based kinship navigator programs that meet certain criteria. Kinship…

Keeping Families Together: How TANF Programs Can Provide Concrete Supports to Keep More Children at Home

Fact / Tip Sheet

Families that receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance are often in a state of crisis. They face immediate material needs, and these unmet basic needs put families at an increased risk for investigations in the child…