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The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 is a significant recognition of the contribution grandparents and other relatives make in raising our nation’s children. This new law is designed to better connect foster children with their relatives, promote permanent families through relative guardianship, and improve education and health care for foster children.
Specifically, the law provides:
- Subsidized guardianship to enable children in the care of grandparents and other relatives to exit foster care into permanency
- Kinship navigator programs to help link relative caregivers to a broad range of services and supports that will help meet their needs and the needs of the children in their care
- Notices to adult relatives of a child placed into foster care
- Options for states to waive non safety related licensing standards for relative foster parents
It also extends direct Title IV-E funding to tribal governments, reauthorized the Adoption Incentives Program, offers federal reimbursement to states for support provided to foster youth up to age 21, and requires increased efforts to keep siblings together when placed in foster care.
The Grandfamilies State Law and Policy Resource Center offers several summaries of the legislation, including a fact sheet on what the new law means for relative caregivers.
Click here to read a detailed summary of the law. http://www.grandfamilies.org/images/pdfs/fosteringSummary.pdf
Click here to read a short summary of the law. http://www.grandfamilies.org/images/pdfs/shortSummary.pdf
Click here for the actual text of the law. http://www.grandfamilies.org/images/pdfs/TextofFosteringConnectionsLaw.pdf
Click here to read the kinship provisions. http://www.grandfamilies.org/images/pdfs/kinshipprovisions.pdf
Thinking about foster parenting? Learn about foster parent requirements and PRIDE classes. If you don't have time to be a foster parent, consider becoming a CASA.
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