HHS Proposes Extension of Foster Care and Adoption Data Plans
Published Date: 5/6/2025
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Summary
The Administration for Children and Families wants to extend and update the plan that helps support foster care, adoption, guardianship, and family support programs for three more years. This affects states and agencies that manage these programs, making sure they keep helping kids and families smoothly. The update keeps things on track until 2028 without extra costs right now.
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Three-Year Extension of Title IV-E Plan
The Administration for Children and Families is requesting a 3-year extension of the Plan for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance (OMB# 0970-0433), whose current expiration is July 31, 2025. The extension is intended to keep the plan and associated information collection active through 3 more years (keeping activity on track until 2028) without adding extra costs right now.
Plan Now Includes Guardianship, Prevention, Kinship
The plan being extended explicitly incorporates requirements for optional guardianship assistance, Title IV-E prevention services, and the Title IV-E kinship navigator programs. That means the single Plan for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance will cover those program requirements as part of the renewed information collection.
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