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The following are resources addressing HHS Faith Center priorities.
Protecting Women and Children
HHS is taking steps to pursue systemic policies that will provide comprehensive, holistic women's and pediatric health care.
Strengthening Marriage and Family
*The National Health Marriage Resource Center is a clearinghouse for quality, balanced, and timely information and resources on healthy marriage and relationship education.
Fatherhood.gov an Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs/Federal grantees, states, and the public at-large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.
Lifting Up Individuals Through Work and Self-Sufficiency
The Temporary Assistance for Need Families (TANF) program is designed to help families with children experiencing low-income achieve economic security and stability.
Defending Religious Liberty
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within HHS enforces Federal protections against discrimination based on conscience and religion in specific programs funded by HHS federal financial assistance. This includes not just the specific right to worship, but the general rights of belief and practice.
Promoting Foster Care and Adoption programs
The Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families partners with federal, state, tribal, and local agencies to improve the overall health and well-being of our Nation's children and families.
Providing Wholesome and Effective Education
The Administration for Children & Families (ACF) is an operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services. They promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities by providing federal leadership, partnership and resources for the compassionate and effective delivery of human services.
Preventing and Reducing Crime and Facilitating Prisoner Reentry
Individuals, families, and communities served by HHS programs are affected by high rates of incarceration. HHS initiatives that target this population encompass a range of human services, health, and behavioral health services.
Promoting Recovery from Substance Use Disorder
HHS remains committed to preventing substance use initiation, reducing the number of lives lost to overdose, and helping Americans to overcome substance use disorders, achieve recovery, and live healthy lives.
Go to FindTreatment.gov to find a treatment facility near you for substance use disorder.
Fostering Flourishing Minds
Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Go to MentalHealth.gov for additional resources.