Recognizing National Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges of children in the foster care system and encouraging Congress to implement policy to improve the lives of children in, or at risk of entering, the foster care system.
Sponsored By: Representative Kamlager-Dove
Introduced
Summary
Putting permanency and support for children in foster care first. This resolution would designate National Foster Care Month and urge Congress to pursue policies that boost prevention and reunification, strengthen kinship supports, and improve transitions to adulthood.
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- Families and children: Encourages investment in prevention and reunification services to reduce foster care entries and reentries.
- Foster parents and kin caregivers: Recognizes foster parents and kin as frontline caregivers and notes some relative caregivers receive less financial help and supportive services than foster caregivers.
- Youth aging out: Calls for programs to help youth who age out; more than 20,000 youth age out annually and about 20% become instantly homeless.
- Child welfare workforce: Highlights workforce strain with about an 8.5% vacancy rate and an average tenure of 3 years for child protection staff.
- Health and education risks: Flags that foster children on Medicaid are prescribed antipsychotics at nearly four times the rate of other recipients and that 65% of former foster youth experience at least seven school changes during care.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Kamlager-Dove
CA • D
Cosponsors
Moore (WI)
WI • D
Sponsored 5/6/2025
Bacon
NE • R
Sponsored 5/6/2025
Scanlon
PA • D
Sponsored 5/6/2025
Nunn (IA)
IA • R
Sponsored 5/6/2025
Houchin
IN • R
Sponsored 5/6/2025
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