ACF’s Commitment to Behavioral Health
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En Español (PDF) Supporting the behavioral health of children, families, and youth is an essential priority for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). We see youth and families facing mental health challenges, substance use struggles, and high levels of stress. In partnership with federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local partners, as well as youth and families themselves, we have — through prioritizing actions and investments — further integrated behavioral health support and services into existing supports for youth and families. This enables us to promote behavioral health, foster recovery, cultivate resilience, and strengthen overall well-being among individuals and communities across the country. I’m proud of the work ACF has done — and will continue to do — in partnership with all of you to address the President’s Strategy to Address our National Mental Health Crisis and the HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration . I’d like to highlight in this email some of our work and accomplishments to improve behavioral health for children, youth, and families. ACF is committed to centering and partnering with youth, families, and communities and learning from their experiences and expertise as we transform behavioral health in this country. The ACF team and I have regularly listened to, engaged with, and co-developed several behavioral health resources. These engagements have informed behavioral health activities, policy, and communications to better reach and serve children, youth, parents, and caregivers. A few examples of ACF’s engagements include: As part of this commitment, we recently launched our ACF and Behavioral Health webpage to expand access to resources for communities, parents and caregivers, teens and young adults, tribes, grantees, and service providers. Included online are resources to support the prevention, treatment, and recovery from behavioral health conditions; recognize, manage, and support children’s mental health needs; and address substance use during pregnancy. We have also dedicated a webpage specifically for early childhood behavioral health resources. I encourage you to share these resources within your networks and to note that near the top center of the webpage is a tool to translate the information into a variety of languages; ACF is committed to promoting language access. In the coming months, we will be making additional changes and adding new resources, including several Spanish language resources. We are working with partners across the federal government to increase access to culturally and linguistically relevant support for youth and families served by ACF programs. A few examples of ACF’s efforts to improve access to culturally and linguistically relevant resources include: ACF has been a partner in launching the first-ever HHS Children and Youth Resilience Challenge , which is investing in innovative, community-led solutions to advance the mental health of children and youth. Later this month, ACF will be announcing finalists for Phase 1 of the Challenge to support the mental health of children. Last year, we partnered with Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud and the U.S. Census Bureau to develop new solutions to enhance children’s resilience to adversity in Puerto Rico (PDF). The collaborative process led by The Opportunity Project brought together youth, tech, academic, and community partners to address the challenge by building public-facing products informed by open federal data. ACF values and welcomes your partnership to support behavioral health of children, youth, and families. We are in this work together. With thanks for your leadership, January Contreras Assistant Secretary Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
ANA provides funding to federally and state recognized tribes and Native nonprofits in the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa through the following programs: Find out more about by reading ANA Fact Sheet (PDF) . Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and tribal consortia are eligible for federal funding to administer programs authorized under titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act. Tribes are also eligible to apply for discretionary grants. Learn more by reading the CB's Tribal Fact Sheet (PDF) The Office of Early Childhood Development (ECD) oversees early care and education programs in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). ECD provides leadership to support a national agenda focused on young children, their families, and the early care and education workforce. Find out more about ECD's current initiatives: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) Program The FVPSA Program serves as the primary federal funding stream for emergency shelter and related assistance for victims of domestic violence and their children. Information on FVPSA’s formula and discretionary grants is below and FVPSA’s State and Tribal Domestic Violence Services Fact Sheet may be accessed here. The Office of Child Care supports low-income working families by improving access to affordable, high-quality early care and afterschool programs. OCC administers the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) —a block grant to state, territory, and tribal governments that provides support for children and their families with paying for child care that will fit their needs and that will prepare children to succeed in school. CCDF is the primary federal funding source for child care subsidies to help eligible low-income working families access child care and to improve the quality of child care for all children. View the OCC CCDF Final Rule Tribal Fact Sheet. Sixty-three tribes currently operate child support programs, providing services to Native American families consistent with tribal values and cultures. Tribal child support programs locate custodial and noncustodial parents, establish legal fatherhood (paternity), establish child support orders, and enforce orders. View the OCSS Tribal Fact Sheet. The Office of Community Services (OCS) partners with states, tribes, territories, and non-profit and community-based organizations to reduce the causes and consequences of poverty, increase opportunity and economic security of individuals and families, and revitalize communities. Our social service and community development programs work in a variety of ways to improve the lives of many. The OCS includes the following divisions that include grant opportunities available to tribes and/or tribal organization: Division of Community Assistance (DCA), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA), and the Division of Community Discretionary and Demonstration Programs (DCDDP). The OCS is committed to supporting our tribal partners through our OCS divisions and the OCS Tribal Services Workgroup which partners with tribes and tribal organizations providing information, opportunities available, and resources available within the Office of Community Services. Division of Community Assistance Division of Energy Assistance Division of Community Discretionary and Demonstration Programs Community Economic Development Planning (CED-P) grant program helps recipients develop comprehensive and viable plans to spur economic development; builds administrative capacity to design a sustainable business project; and provides the time and resources that community development corporations (CDCs) need to develop a successful traditional CED job creation grant application. Rural Community Development (RCD) program works with regional and tribal organizations to manage safe water systems in rural communities. RCD funds are used to provide training and technical assistance to help co