Subject: Resources and Upcoming Webinar
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Advocates for
Families First
Helping ensure children in kinship, foster, and adoptive families thrive. |
2014 Green Book Has Updated Information on
U.S. Federal Child Welfare Laws and Funding
The U.S. House of Representative Ways & Means Committee recently released the 2014 Green Book, which includes information on the programs under the committee’s jurisdiction. The child welfare section of the Green Book includes numerous reports from the Child Welfare Congressional Research Services and charts and figures on federal child welfare funding.
Access the Child Welfare section. |
| New Resources Address Key Child Welfare Issues
The following recent reports and resources are of value to the kinship, foster care, and adoption community:
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| State-by-State Adoption Data Available
NACAC, through the State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center (SPARC), has published state adoption factsheets based primarily on 2012 AFCARS data. Each of the factsheets includes information about the number of waiting children, the number of adopted children, lengths of stay, race and ethnic background of waiting and adopted children, and more.
Access the factsheets.
Data Details State Adoptions from Care
The Children’s Bureau recently released a state-by-state chart listing the children and youth adopted with public agency involvement from 2004 to 2013.
Access the chart. |
| Free Webinars for Support and Advocacy Group Leaders |
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Being a foster parent I have found sometimes in getting educated it is your own team that stop you. Because if you ask for additional classes to help the children and your self, there’s always something to stop, there’s not enough people who asking or signing up this class, what do that have to do with your willingness to help these children in your home, sometimes I want to forget about being a foster home, I need therapeutic classes because I believe some children can be helped without drugs all the time, and talking, hands on approach like games, straight talk (age wise) letting children know they are somebody and their opinion counts it’s about their lives and they should have some input.