Administration for Children and Families - ACF

Half the country has officially joined A Home for Every Child! We are thrilled to welcome Montana as the 25th state to join our national initiative aimed at increasing the ratio of foster homes to children in foster care.

Thank you, Governor Greg Gianforte, for your leadership.

MORE: https://news.mt.gov/Governors-Office/Governor-Gianforte-Announces-Montana-Joins-A-Home-For-Every-Child-Initiative-To-Strengthen-Foster-Care

A new $6 million competitive grant opportunity for child welfare agencies to pilot predictive analytics represents ACF’s latest push to help modernize supports children and families in need.

State Scoop explains: https://acf.mobi/4o0cTcQ

The answer to more affordable child care is not more regulations or government control.

The Trump administration is working to get the federal bureaucracy out of the way so parents have more options and control when it comes to child care.

More: https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-pro-choice-policy-could-be-the-solution-for-struggling-american-families

NEW: ACF announced $6 million to help states, territories, and tribes pilot predictive analytics in child welfare to improve child safety and caseworker decision-making.

Technology tools like predictive analytics can help jurisdictions achieve a 1:1 ratio of foster homes-to-children in foster care nationwide by ensuring families are kept together, when appropriate, and placements are made quickly when necessary.

More: https://acf.gov/media/press/2026/acf-announces-6-million-states-pilot-predictive-analytics-child-welfare

Almost half the nation! Texas is the 24th state to join ACF’s “A Home for Every Child” initiative aimed at improving the ratio of foster homes to children in care.

Thank you, Office of the Governor Greg Abbott for your leadership!

🔥ACF is torching mounds of red tape that have been accumulating for decades.

Already, ACF Assistant Secretary Alex Adams has rescinded nearly 36,000 pages of outdated and irrelevant sub-regulatory guidance.

And just this week, ACF published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to eliminate 190 sections of obsolete regulations — marking what is believed to be the single largest repeal of Federal regulatory sections in U.S. history!

Find out what we have cut and why in a new Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's report: https://manhattan.institute/article/bringing-regulatory-dark-matter-to-light-a-case-study-of-reform-at-the-administration-for-children-and-families

The Lone Star State has joined “A Home for Every Child!”

“Governor Abbott is putting the needs of Texas’ children and families first by supporting efforts to keep families together and remove unnecessary barriers that would discourage loving families from fostering.”—ACF Assistant Secretary Alex J. Adams

More from Office of the Governor Greg Abbott: https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-texas-joining-a-home-for-every-child-initiative-to-strengthen-foster-care

ACF inventoried its sub-regulatory guidance, identified roughly 36,000 pages of “regulatory dark matter,” then rescinded all of it to ensure what information remained was transparent, useful, and current.

“Regulatory dark matter thrives when no one is responsible for managing it. By inventorying guidance, assigning responsibility, applying a presumption of obsolescence, and institutionalizing review, ACF brought discipline to a previously unseen but consequential dimension of governance.” — ACF Assistant Secretary Alex Adams

Learn More from Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: https://manhattan.institute/article/new-report-bringing-regulatory-dark-matter-to-light

States across America continue to take action to improve the ratio of foster homes-to-children in foster care.

ACF is thrilled to welcome Connecticut, New Jersey, and South Dakota to our "A Home for Every Child" initiative.

Learn more: https://acf.gov/a-home-for-every-child

A new report from Manhattan Institute for Policy Research explains how ACF has eliminated 74% of its “regulatory dark matter” and established a new review process to prevent outdated and irrelevant sub-regulatory guidelines from amassing in the future.

MORE: https://manhattan.institute/article/bringing-regulatory-dark-matter-to-light-a-case-study-of-reform-at-the-administration-for-children-and-families