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This emergency legislation extends foster care for older foster youth in Washington, DC who turn 21 years of age during a public health emergency. Read the provision on p.46 of... (Read more)

This document is a letter to the Administration and Senate Finance Committee regarding their plan to help protect the vulnerable youth in and from foster care during this pandemic.(Read more)

On December 20th, as part of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, the President signed the Family First Transition Act into law. View the full text here. The Family First... (Read more)

U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) introduced bipartisan legislation, the Child Abuse Deaths Disclosure Act, which would require states to report data on all child-abuse related deaths... (Read more)

The bill (S. 2777/H.R. 4980) presents a bipartisan effort to help jurisdictions implement the Family First Prevention Services Act more effectively and proposes to provide resources to states, tribes and... (Read more)

Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, along with colleagues in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, introduced the “Family First Transition and... (Read more)

A letter signed by the Chair and Ranking Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance as well as the Chairman and Ranking Member of the U.S. House Committee on... (Read more)

Senator Wyden wrote a letter praising Oregon State Senator Gelser for leading legislative effort to implement Family First. See Oregon's proposed legislative changes here . The Letter(Read more)

Background on foster care data and need for reform, basis for and goals of reform efforts, timeline of legislative actions leading to Family First, and an overview of provisions. Presented... (Read more)

Full text of Public Law No: 115-123 (02/09/2018) including the Family First Prevention Services Act. View it here(Read more)