Foster Care Support: Improving Recruitment and Retention of Caregivers
This act aims to improve the foster and adoptive family system. It introduces new rules for states to better find, support, and retain foster families, and to collect data on their needs. This gives children in need of care a greater chance of stable and appropriate homes.
Key points
States must develop family partnership plans to better recruit and support foster and adoptive caregivers, considering the diversity of children.
It mandates data collection on foster family capacity and congregate care utilization, aiming for more efficient system management.
The act requires regular feedback from foster and adoptive parents and youth to improve licensing, training, and support processes.
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