Email accidentally suggests that head start, secret plans to end research on other child safety net programs

Iowa City: The Trump administration can research the effectiveness of child welfare programs, a spreadsheet in this week that according to a spreadsheet made publicly public, planned to abolish dozens of grants studying head start and child care policy. The document listed more than 150 research projects for termination by the Department of US Health and Human Services.
This covered the grants funded by the Planning, Research and Evaluation Office, which states that it “creates evidence to improve life” helps policy makers evaluate programs that help children and families with low -income.
Naomi Goldstein said, “The aim of these grants is to learn that to further goals such as healthy child development, to reduce misconduct and promote economic self -reliance and promote economic self -reliance to make programs more effective,” led the office for about two decades before retiring in 2022. “It is difficult to see why they want to cancel these efforts.”
Grants cancellation will add deep deductions already implemented in the administration of HHS for children and families, planning to shut down five regional offices and a month ago hundreds of workers were fired. Former employees say its staffing has fallen from about 2,400 to 1,500 in January, and the administration has stated that it will turn ACF in other parts of HHS.
Other HHS divisions, such as the Disease Control and Prevention Center and the National Institute of Health, have already cut billions of dollars, including the administration of President Donald Trump related to public health, gender, breed and other subjects protested by the administration of Donald Trump.
The document released on Wednesday marked the first news of the schemes for the possible mass termination of ACF grants, although the department spokesman later said it was only an old draft.
The proposed termination further reduced the head start, the 60 -year program viewed by ACF who supports preschool and services for hundreds of thousands of low -income children. Head Start has faced plans and plans to completely eliminate its funding in recent months. The grants facing expiration included studies aimed at answering major questions and improving its operations, such as how to maintain more teachers in local head start programs.
The spreadsheet listed for a termination of millions of dollars for the first-one centers dedicated to the first-one centers dedicated to the low-income black and Hispany children and families at a non-profit institution in Maryland, at the Morhouse College in Atlanta and in a non-profit organization in Maryland.
Child care policy, child development, foster care, preventing child abuses, temporary assistance to needy families were also listed as a set to cancel the dozens of grants and dozens of grants, which reflect the comprehensive portfolio of ACF.
With those studies, policy makers helped understand what a former official of the administration said what works.
“These projects not only ruin the dollar without clarification,” said Katie Ham, it also threatens the basis of evidence behind the major security net programs. ” “It is worrying that grants and contractors had to find out this way through a contingent email rather than a transparent process.”
The information was accidentally included by an HHS employee in an email sent on Wednesday to give grants to the recipients to universities and non -profit organizations, who asked them to review and update their contact information.
HHS recalled the message only after the spreadsheet, in which the funding for each grant would be “finished” or “released”, there was a column on it, downloaded by recipients. A department spokesman said the document had “old and preceding information”, but did not dismiss that research could be cut off within ACF.
Spokesperson Andrew Nixon said, “ACF is committed to ensuring that government funds are used in alignment with administration priorities and are in the best interest of American people.”
Director of the former Research Office, Goldstein stated that the situation “appears to reflect the level of haste and chaos in the agency”.
Of the 177 listed grants, only 21 were marked with a note for “continuing” funding in the document. A small number had already expired, and some were marked for the termination “at the end of the budget period.”
The document did not list how much funding would be cut in all, but the office was responsible for $ 154 million in the grant and contract in FY 2024.
More than 50 universities were listed as the abolition of the grant. Many other state agencies and non -profit will also be affected.
A follow -up email asked recipients to disregard the spreadsheet, but again asked for updated contact information. A researcher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid vengeance, said that he was hoping to receive formal notification soon that his grant would be terminated. Several other grant recipients refused to comment.