The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families leads and supports interdisciplinary research on the needs of Hispanic populations served by ACF and promising approaches to promote social and economic well-being among low-income Hispanic families. The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation recently awarded a new cooperative agreement for the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families to Child Trends, Inc., with partners National Opinion Research Corporation at the University of Chicago, New York University, University of Maryland, and University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Through a combination of research, research capacity building, and communication activities, this Center will focus broadly on marriage and relationships, fatherhood, child care and early education, and related issues such as financial stability, employment and economic mobility of low-income families, and children's healthy development and learning.