The success of the Forum is driven by the commitment of the members of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

This report was written by the staff of the Forum, including Traci Cook, Forum Staff Director; Laura Hales, Economic Research Service; Calonie Gray, Administration for Children and Families; Sheila Franco and Ashley Woodall, National Center for Health Statistics; Thyria Alvarez and Barry Steffen, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Erin Tinney, Bureau of Justice Statistics; Connor Borkowski, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Mark Baldwin and Aly Lorenz, Environmental Protection Agency; Cindi Knighton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Jessica Cotto, National Institute on Drug Abuse; and Jessica Minnaert, Health Resources and Services Administration.

In addition, active members of the Planning Committee who guided development of the report included Juanita J. Chinn and Susan M. Jekielek, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; David Nehrt-Flores, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; Benjamin Adams, National Institute of Justice; and Christopher Marcum and Anthony Nerino, U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Other staff members of the Forum agencies provided data, developed indicators, or wrote parts of the report. They include Elaine Stedt, Administration for Children and Families; Hector Rodriquez and Shalom Williams, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Grace Robiou, Environmental Protection Agency; Mark Prell, Economic Research Service; Joseph Afful, Lara Akinbami, Yutaka Aoki, Shilpa Bengeri, Amy Branum, Debra Brody, Christopher Cairns, Anne Driscoll, Nazik Elgaddal, Cheryl Fryar, Matthew Garnett, Anne Mamish, Joyce Martin, Arialdi Miniño, Cynthia Ogden, Jeannine Schiller, Alan Simon, Anjel Vahratian, Xun Wang, Julie Weeks, and Anne Zehner, National Center for Health Statistics; Jennifer Turnham, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Laurie Elam-Evans, Leslie Harrison, Holly Hill, Mike Underwood, and Cassandra Pingali, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In addition, Ashley Roberts, Katie Mallory, Megan Barnett, Susan Armstrong, Jillian Harrison, Danielle Haslup, Mandy Chan, Steve Purcell, and Anlan Zhang with the American Institutes for Research assisted Forum staff in producing the report.