This newsletter issue focuses on how the family support movement can help reshape the human services delivery system to more effectively meet the needs of African American families. The newsletter includes the following articles: (1) "Dispelling Myths and Building on Strengths: Supporting African American Families"; (2) "The 'Nguzo Saba': African-Centered Values as Tools for Family Assessment, Support, and Empowerment"; (3) "Public Policy and African American Families: Employment, Education, Community Development"; (4) "African American Academic Achievement: Issues, Answers, and Promising Strategies"; (5) "It Takes a Whole Village To Raise a Child" (profiles of five programs); (6) "Understanding Fathers: Human Services Perspectives in Theory and Practice"; (7) "Black Churches and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Breaking the Silence"; (8) "The Importance of Including Grandparents in Services for African American Families"; and (9) "In Our Mothers' Homes There Is Still God: African American Spirituality."