Assignment 5: Evaluation of the Agency's Budgeting and Cumulative Report

Joseph Brown

Dr. Valerie Richardson

PAD 599 - Public Administration Capstone

March 15, 2014

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is the second largest agency within the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS). Being so large comes with a cost; the budget preparation of ACF is challenging, and involves many processes and justifications. In justifying the budget, ACF ensures that they invest in efforts to promote the economic and social well-being of children, families, and communities by giving opportunity ways of a fiscally responsible budget. Prime example would be ACF's Early Childhood Education. "About8 billion a year on early childhood development services"...