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THE ADOPTION INCENTIVES ACT
Today, more than 127,000 children and young people in foster care are waiting to leave the system – for good – to join permanent families. Every day without a permanent family can feel like a lifetime to those of us in and from foster care.
The bipartisan Adoption Incentives Program has helped more than 443,000 children leave the uncertainty of foster care to join adoptive families – but unless Congress acts now, it will expire on September 30, 2008. The House acted unanimously to reauthorize the Adoption Incentives Program in late June and included provisions to provide relative guardianship as an additional way for children to exit foster care for permanent families. FCAA members from around the country contacted their Senators in July to urge reauthorization before the August recess, but the Senate did not act.
Senators on the Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the nation’s foster care system, will play a key role in promoting safe, permanent families for our most vulnerable children.
During the August recess, FCAA members in areas where Senate Finance Committee members are from will be asked to contact their Senators. Stay tuned for more information. As a community of alumni, we are keenly aware of just how long another day without a family can be.
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