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Foster Youth Interning in Congress Want Laws Improving Health Care, Greater Access to Benefits

7/21/2022

Foster Youth Interning in Congress Envision Laws Improving Health Care, Greater Access to Benefits

Interns with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute presented their policy recommendations to members of Congress and their staff.

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Washington, D.C., Pilot Gives $500 Per Month to Black Mothers with CPS Cases

3/16/2022

What’s in the 2022 Federal Spending Deal for Children and Families

The federal spending plan for 2022 is a $1.5 trillion package with billions slated for child welfare, youth justice and family homelessness.

Former Foster Youth Like Me Face Eviction as Pandemic Drags On

9/22/2021

Former Foster Youth Like Me Face Eviction as Pandemic Drags On; Congressional Champions Introduce Life-Saving Extensions

As the pandemic drags on, young people from foster care are continuing to struggle, and the federal relief provided for older youth from foster care will soon expire.

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6/23/2020

Karen Bass, Longtime Leader on Child Welfare Policy, In the Mix for Vice President

CBS News reported this morning that U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D), who represents the 37th district of Los Angeles, is being vetted as a potential running mate for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

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5/7/2020

Congressional Internship for Foster Youth Forced to Go Remote

The coronavirus pandemic has affected seemingly everything, and the 20th annual congressional summer internship program for former foster youth is no exception. For the first time in the history of the Foster Youth Internship Program, familiarly known as FYI, participants in the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s program will take place not in Washington, D.C.,

4/17/2020

Protecting Children Must Be Part of The Next Stimulus Package

The coronavirus crisis has put children in foster care – and those who need to be there – at serious risk in numerous, unnerving ways. To date, however, they and their families have barely been mentioned as potential victims of the pandemic, and the federal government has been done virtually nothing to help them.

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    4/14/2020

    Child Welfare Advocates Around Country Ask for More than $3 Billion in Next Stimulus

    Hundreds of child welfare and family services organizations signed on to a letter asking House and Senate leadership for a massive boost to child welfare funding for the year as part of a possible next piece of stimulus legislation.

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    12/20/2019

    Trump Signs Spending Bill with Family First Sweeteners, Boosts to Head Start and Child Care

    Just days after being impeached by the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump signed a spending bill for 2020 that includes hundreds of millions in funding to assist states with a recent overhaul of federal child welfare financing.

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    Connecticut Establishes Baby Bond Program to Reduce Wealth Disparity

    11/19/2019

    Klobuchar, Murkowski Introduce Bill on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

    Presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced legislation today that would restore long lost federal dollars to help children affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol. The Advancing FASD Research, Prevention and Services Act would amend the Public Health Service Act to include $42 million for research and services grants focused on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).