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ACF's direct predecessor, the Family Support Administration, was created in 1986 by bringing together six existing major programs within HHS. ACF was created in its present form on April 15, 1991, by merging the Office of Human Development Services, the Family Support Administration, and the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Program.
OCSE is an office within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which is a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It helps states and tribes to design their programs, provides children medical and emotional support, technical assistance, funding, assistance in locating responsible parents, and ...
The United States Children's Bureau is a federal agency organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services ' Administration for Children and Families. Today, the bureau's operations involve improving child abuse prevention, foster care, and adoption. Historically, its work was much broader, as shown by the 1912 act which ...
Support Enforcement Services, Office of Family Support: Maine Revised Statute Ann. tit. 19-A, §§ 2001–2010, based on the Income Shares model: Division of Support Enforcement & Recovery: Maryland Family Law Code Ann. §§ 12-201 et seq., based on the Income Shares model: Child Support Enforcement Administration: Massachusetts
The Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, also referred to as the Hague Maintenance Convention or the Hague Child Support Convention is a multilateral treaty governing the enforcement of judicial decisions regarding child support (and other forms of family support) extraterritorially.
After the May 2 meeting, ACF found MPS had failed to show that children were adequately supervised between their buses and their homes, failed to show that it had corrected problems with oversight ...
The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act ( UIFSA) is one of the uniform acts drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in the United States. First developed in 1992 [1] the NCCUSL revised the act in 1996 [2] and again in 2001 [3] with additional amendments in 2008. [4] The act limits the jurisdiction that can ...
Child protective services ( CPS) is the name of an agency in many U.S. states responsible for providing child protection, which includes responding to reports of child abuse or neglect. Some states use other names, often attempting to reflect more family-centered (as opposed to child-centered) practices, such as department of children and ...