December/January 2013Vol. 13, No. 11ACF's The Family Room
The Administration for Children and Families' (ACF's) blog—The Family Room—regularly provides information about new initiatives, policy announcements, and other important ACF news. Blog entries are authored by George Sheldon, Acting Assistant Secretary for ACF, and various Administration staff and span topics that include adoption, the Affordable Care Act, child abuse and neglect, foster care, Head Start, runaway and homeless youth, and countless others.
Recent blog articles have focused on the following:
- The 2012 National Adoption Month public service advertisements that encourage prospective parents to consider adopting teens in foster care
- Visits from ACF leadership to areas of New York and New Jersey affected by Hurricane Sandy
- ACF program outreach to Native American communities
To read these blog entries and more, visit The Family Room on the ACF website: