Members of FCAA and other advocates are celebrating the passage of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.  Our members have been instrumental in the passage of the bill in both houses of Congress through our campaigns to email and call your Senators and Representatives over the last several months. 

 

For a section-by-section detailing of the bill, click here.

 

This bill does the following to support our younger brothers and sisters from foster care:

• extends and increases incentives for permanency, particularly incentives for the adoption of children with special needs and older youth in foster care. 
• allows states to offer federal assistance to children who are in foster care but who have grandparent or other relative guardians who want to care for them permanently outside of the formal foster care system.
• makes it easier for relatives to step in to raise children when their parents cannot. 
• improves educational opportunities for children and youth in foster care. 
• significantly increases resources available to young people as they age out of foster care to help them successfully transition into adult life. 

 

THANK YOU to all of our members and supporters for your work on behalf of those who come after us in foster care.  Together, our voices really make a difference.