NACAC was delighted to see that the Fostering Connections to Success Act (H.R. 6307) passed the House yesterday. (See previous post for more information on the bill.)
Now it's on to the Senate! We will be working for passage of the Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act (S. 3038), which would:
* Reauthorize and expand the adoption incentive program
* Make all foster children with special needs eligible for federal adoption assistance (de-linking from old AFDC income standards)
* Create a federal subsidized guardianship program to support relatives who become guardians so that their kin can permanently leave foster care
Then we hope that, in conference, the final bill will also include de-linking of federal adoption assistance and the tribal direct funding included in H.R. 6307.
We encourage you to ask your Senators to sign on to S. 3038 as co-sponsors today. To reach your Senators, go to http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm.
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The foster care system needs to be changed. Too many children spend too much of their childhoods in foster care. We need changes at the national and state levels to ensure that every child has a permanent, loving family, and all families have the support needed to raise their children. The time for reform is now.
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- North American Council on Adoptable Children
- Since its founding in 1974 by adoptive parents, the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) has been dedicated to the mission that every child deserves a permanent family. Through education, support, parent leadership capacity building, and advocacy, NACAC promotes and supports permanence for children and youth in foster care in the United States and Canada. Some of NACAC’s core activities include empowering parents to support one another as they raise children adopted from foster care; working with policymakers, administrators, and grassroots advocates to reform the foster care system and improve outcomes for children and youth; and disseminating information that will help child welfare professionals and adoptive families better support vulnerable children. For more information, visit www.nacac.org
1 comment:
We took my grand-niece into foster care with the intent to adopt her. We were ADVISED to go through foster care first, since we could take custody and get support more easily that way. Even so, it took a year to even meet the child and 2-1/2 years for the adoption (final next Wednesday) to actually happen. We're RELATIVES, yet. Maybe state bureacracies feel they're being thorough; with (6) foster care social workers between the beginning and the end of the process, we feel they're impeding the process anywhere they can.
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