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The purpose of this Information Memorandum is to provide state, tribal, and territorial agencies and Court Improvement Program (CIP) grantees an update regarding implementation of the Supporting America’s Children and Families Act.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to inform states and Tribes of enactment of the Supporting America's Children and Families Act and provide information on the new law.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum is to inform state and tribal title IV-B and title IV-E agencies of a nationwide stay of the Designated Placements Final Rule and corresponding regulation at 45 CFR 1355.22.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to inform state and tribal title IV-B and title IV-E agencies of a final rule issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that implements Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973  (Section 504). 

This Information Memoranda (IM) provides State, Tribal and Territorial title IV-E agencies an updated Title IV-E Plan Pre-Print for the Foster Care Assistance, Adoption Assistance, Guardianship Assistance and Kinship Navigator programs.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to inform title IV-E agencies that a final rule was published amending the AFCARS regulations to require state title IV-E agencies to collect and report data elements related to the procedural protections of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA). This final rule was published in the Federal Register on December 5, 2024 (89 FR 96569).

This Information Memorandum (IM) notifies child welfare agencies about the release of updated nonregulatory guidance: Nonregulatory Guidance: Ensuring Educational Stability and Success for Students in Foster Care.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to inform title IV-E agencies of changes to PRWORA that permit citizens of “freely associated states” to be “qualified aliens” thereby, potentially eligible for title IV-E programs.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to remind title IV-E agencies that for all adoption assistance agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2024, eligibility for title IV-E adoption assistance must be determined using the “applicable child” eligibility criteria described in section 473(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the Act.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to inform title IV-B and title IV-E agencies that the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule for Foster Care Legal Representation on May 10, 2024 (89 FR 34818). The final rule allows title IV-E agencies to claim FFP for administrative costs of legal and certain non-legal representation.