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Agency Budget Summary
Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- No Administration for Children and Families (ACF) programs are targeted specifically on drug use and abuse, drug prevention, or drug treatment. Such activities, however, are a part of several comprehensive service programs.
- The amount counted as drug-related is determined as 100 percent for the following programs:
- Abandoned Infants program
- Head Start (Family Service Centers)
- Also, 20 percent of the funding for both Community-Based Resource Centers and Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs is considered drug-related.
III. Program Summary
- The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for programs which promote the economic and social well being of families, children, individuals, and communities.
- Drug use and abuse are barriers to ACF performance measurement goals of providing healthy development, safety, and well being of children and youth.
- ACF programs are not targeted specifically on drug use. Rather, the overall strategy is to combat drug use and abuse by focusing efforts on hard-to-reach and at-risk populations in the context of the broad, comprehensive service programs. Our target populations are:
Youth
- Adolescent populations, such as runaway and homeless youth and school-age children and youth in areas of significant poverty, juvenile delinquency, and crime are tragically vulnerable and at high risk of alcohol and illicit drug use.
Families and Children
- Families and children in crisis, often due to child abuse and neglect associated with substance abuse, are an ACF priority. Children in crisis, e.g., abandoned infants of substance abusing or HIV/AIDS infected parents, are also a primary at-risk population.
- ACF's general funding priorities follow the 1999 Strategy's general funding priorities as follows:
- Support prevention programs that help youth recognize the true risks associated with drug use and that target youth to reduce their use of illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco products.
- Support programs at the local level that create safe and healthy environments in which children and adolescents can live, grow, learn and develop.
- Support programs that strengthen multi-agency linkages at the community level among prevention, treatment, and criminal justice programs, as well as other supportive social services, to better address the problems of drug abuse.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.
- The FY 1999 enacted appropriation contains an estimated $43.8 million for prevention activities in support of Goal 1.
Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.
- The FY 1999 enacted appropriation contains an estimated $12.7 million for treatment activities in support of Goal 3.
2000 Request
Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.
- The total drug control request for Goal 1 prevention activities for FY 2000 is $48.8 million, an increase of $5.0 million over FY 1999 enacted appropriation.
- The FY 2000 budget requests $4.0 million in additional funding for drug prevention activities in the Head Start Program and a $1.0 million enhancement for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program.
Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.
- The total drug control request for Goal 3 treatment activities for FY 2000 is $12.7 million, the same as the FY 1999 enacted appropriation.
V. Program Accomplishments
- While Administration for Children and Families (ACF) programs are not targeted specifically on drug use and abuse, drug prevention, or drug treatment, these activities are a part of several comprehensive service programs administered by ACF that supports Goal 1 and 3 of the Strategy.
The ACF drug-related programs:
- Support prevention programs that help youth recognize the true risks associated with drug use and that target youth to reduce their use of illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco products.
- Support programs at the local level that create safe and healthy environments in which children and adolescents can live, grow, learn and develop.
- Support programs that strengthen multi-agency linkages at the community level among prevention, treatment, and criminal justice programs, as well as other supportive social services, to better address the problems of families that may lead to drug abuse.
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