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Through this study, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeks to (1) understand how Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), child support, and other human services programs gather and use input from the families they have served, currently serve, or could serve for program improvement; (2) identify ways for TANF and child support programs to incorporate family input for program improvement; and (3) identify the successes and challenges these programs face in gathering and using family input. This study will explore approaches to gathering family input, create program resources to support programs in gathering and using family input, engage TANF and child support programs in formative learning cycles to test and refine the resources, and report on findings. The Family Input Study is one sub-study of the TANF and Child Support Moving Forward project. The other sub-study is the Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic study.