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Placement of Foster Children
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing
Adoptions Act of 2008
The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions
Act (H.R. 6893/P.L. 110-351) will help hundreds of thousands
of children and youth in foster care by promoting permanent
families for them through relative guardianship and adoption
and improving education and health care. Additionally, it will
extend federal support for youth to age 21.
The Act provides the following:
- Notice to relatives when children enter care
- Funds for Kinship Navigator programs to help connect children
living with relatives with support and assistance
- Subsidized guardianship payments for relatives.
- Licensing standards for relatives
- Increased incentives to states to find adoptive families
- Adoption assistance
- Requiring states to make reasonable efforts to place siblings
together
- Helping youth who turn 18 in foster care without permanent
families to remain in care to age 19, 20, or 21 with continued
federal support
- Educational stability (requiring that states ensure that foster
children remain in their same school where appropriate) - Health
care coordination.
Full text of item: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:2:./temp/~mdbs35hhaF::
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Safe & Timely Interstate Placement of
Foster Children Act of 2006 (PL 109-239)
Safe & Timely Interstate Placement of Foster Children Act of
2006 (PL 109-239) is designed to improve the process by which
foster children are placed across state lines.
The Act provides the following:
1. States shall receive incentive payments to complete home
study requirements within 30 days ($1500 per timely interstate
home study); and,
2. Receiving states shall complete home studies requested by
another state within 60 days of request. If the state cannot
complete the home study due to circumstances beyond its control,
such as the failure by a federal agency to return background
check information or failure to receive required medical records,
the receiving state may request an additional 15 days to complete
the home study. However, the receiving state must document that
it made the necessary records requests at least 45 days prior
to the end of the initial 60 day period.
Full text of item: http://www.ct.gov/ccpa/lib/ccpa/PA_Interstate.htm.
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