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CHAPTER 4: human servicesChild Care. To support working families, ACF providesStates, territories, and tribes with direct child careassistance payments to low-income families when theparents work or participate in education or training. Incollaboration with the U.S. Department of Education,ACF’s Office of Head Start, and HRSA, ACF’s ChildCare Bureau promotes State flexibility in developingchild care programs and policies that meet the needsof children and parents within each State; supportsresearch and evaluation of innovative child care subsidypolicies and Web-based access to reports, data, andother research-related information; and helps familiesto achieve and maintain self-sufficiency by improvingaccess to affordable, high-quality child care.Assets for Independence. The Assets for Independence(AFI) program uses asset-building strategies toassist low-income families in achieving economicindependence. The program helps participantssave earned income in special-purpose, matchedsavings accounts called Individual DevelopmentAccounts (IDAs). Every dollar in savings depositedby participants into an IDA is matched by the AFIprogram. The IDA mechanism promotes savings andenables participants to acquire a lasting asset aftersaving for a few years. AFI program families use theirIDA savings, including the matching funds, to acquirea first home, capitalize a small business, or enroll inpostsecondary education or training. In additionto helping participants with their IDA savings, allAFI programs provide basic training and supportiveservices related to family financial management.AFI continues to develop new partnerships to assistfamilies. SCORE, a U.S. Small Business resourcepartner, helps AFI grantees saving for small businessstartups. Moreover, the 360 IDAs Initiative nowhelps increase the availability of IDAs to people withdisabilities and their families.Programs of the Administration for Native Americans.The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) inACF promotes the goal of self-sufficiency by providingsocial and economic development opportunities.ANA programs offer training, as well as financial andtechnical assistance, and support a range of projectsfor eligible tribes and Native American organizations.ANA supports the creation of new jobs, developmentor expansion of business enterprises and social serviceinitiatives, and formulation of environmental ordinancesand training in the use and control of natural resources.Future grants will continue to support social andeconomic development strategies and healthy marriagesto improve the well-being of children.Child Support Enforcement. The Child SupportEnforcement (CSE) program is a joint Federal, State,and local partnership that seeks to ensure financial andemotional support for children from both parents bylocating noncustodial parents, establishing paternity, andestablishing and enforcing child support orders. Childsupport services, as mandated in Title IV-D of the SocialSecurity Act of 1935 (Public Law 74-271), as amended,are available for all families with a noncustodial parent,regardless of welfare status. Child support collectionsplay an important role for families transitioning fromwelfare to self-sufficiency, particularly in light oftime limits on receipt of cash assistance. By securingsupport from noncustodial parents on a consistent andcontinuing basis, families may avoid the need for publicassistance, thus reducing government spending.The CSE program continues to make strong gains inchild support order and paternity establishment, aswell as in collections of current and back support. TheDeficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 (Public Law 109-171) includes a series of provisions to strengthen andimprove the program. Overall, DRA provisions willboth strengthen existing collection and enforcementtools and allow States the option to provide additionalsupport to families who need it most. These provisionsinclude State options to direct more child supportcollections to children and families that ever receivedTANF; new efforts to increase collections such asexpanding passport denial, mandatory review andadjustment of support orders, and improving medicalsupport by requiring States to consider both parents’access to health insurance coverage when establishingchild support orders; and an annual user fee for childsupport cases when enforcement efforts are successfulfor families who have never received TANF assistance.94 HHS Strategic Plan FY 2007-2012
CHAPTER 4: human servicesWell-Being Across the LifespanHealthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood. TheDRA provides funding for research and demonstrationsthat support healthy marriage. Approximately 125 Federalgrants were awarded to States and communities to testnew ways to promote and support healthy married-parentfamilies. Grant funds will be used to test promisingapproaches to encourage healthy marriages and providemarriage education, marriage skills training, publicadvertising campaigns, high school education on the valueof marriage, and marriage mentoring programs.HHS supports several other healthy marriage activitiesand research, including Building Strong Families,Supporting Healthy Marriages, and the CommunityHealthy Marriage Initiative. The purpose of the BuildingStrong Families project is to evaluate healthy marriageservices for romantically involved low-income, unwedparents around the time of the birth of a child. Thepurpose of Supporting Healthy Marriages is to informprogram operators and policymakers of the mosteffective ways to help married parents to strengthenand maintain their marriages. The Community HealthyMarriage Initiative evaluates broad-based communitylevelcoalitions that help couples who choose marriagefor themselves to develop the skills and knowledge toform and sustain healthy marriages. In collaborationwith the U.S. Department of State, HHS also promotesprograms and policies at international organizations tostrengthen families and marriages and to promote thepreservation of human life and dignity.The Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Initiativepromotes responsible fatherhood by funding programsthat support healthy marriage activities, enhanceresponsible parenting, and foster economic stability.The initiative will enable fathers to improve theirrelationships and reconnect with their children. Itwill help fathers overcome obstacles and barriers thatoften prevent them from being the most effective andnurturing parent possible. Although the primary goal ofthe initiative is to promote fatherhood in all of its variousforms, an essential point is to encourage fatherhoodwithin the context of marriage. Grant funds will beallocated to promote involved, committed, responsiblefatherhood through counseling, mentoring, marriageeducation, enhancing relationship skills, parenting, andactivities to foster economic stability.HHS Strategic Plan FY 2007-201295
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