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Kinship Caregiver Support Act
A bill to establish kinship navigator programs, to establish guardianship assistance payments for children, and for other purposes.
Other Bill Titles (2 more) 2/16/2007--Introduced.
Kinship Caregiver Support Act - Authorizes the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants for kinship navigator programs to state agencies, metropolitan agencies, or tribal organizations with experi... moreSee Full Bill Text
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| Introduced |  | Voted on by Senate | | Voted on by House | | Considered By President | | Bill Becomes Law |
| February 16, 2007 |
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July 01, 2008 Step Up and Be Part of CDF's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Campaign
Action is now needed in the Senate where similar bills (S. 661 and S. 3038) are pending. Please call your Senators (1-888-226-0627) and urge them to support children being raised by grandparents and other relatives now by voting for the ...
Source: Know4LIFE's Black News Forum
April 17, 2008 Child Abuse and Placement for Children
... 2008 Kids Caucus Teen Foster/Kinship Care Forum next week. So please make a call to your federal legislator and ask the to co-sponsor and pass S.661 and HB. 2188. We can all save kids and give them hope while also saving tax dollars!
Source: ProfileLooker.Com » Blogs
April 08, 2008 Hot trends for April 09, 2008
Pew's Kids Are Waiting project for foster care reform is urging folks to contact Congress to pass S. 661/HR 2188, the Kinship Caregiver Support Act. If you want to help children in foster care or relatives who care for kids in crisis, ...
Source: Scott's : Breaking News
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I was raised in foster care from age 2 to 16 with periodic reunifications with my birth parents: Father alcoholic and mother drug addict laced with horrific domestic violence along with constant placement with one relative after another by my birth parents. Thank God for foster care and for CPS who stepped in and saved me. I think that relatives need to be evaluated and set to the same standards as non relative foster homes. I think it should be made a crime to place children in sick homes with sick parents or relatives. I think good homes whether they are relatives or not need to be evaluated, trained, supervisored and reimbursed. I also worked for Child Protective Services for 10 years. I am most concerned with this trend to return kids to their birth homes/ relatives at all cost. Not a month goes by that another child is being killed by these new policies and we now have 2100 homeless, abused children on our streets instead of in foster homes?????? What is going on??? Take care before you decide to shut down these foster homes and replace them with a nightmare. It sounds good on paper, but look carefully--build in safe guards for these kids along with giving money to the relatives, please. See Sen Ronda Storms R-Brandon Chair of the Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs' report in the article called State Failure Persist in Child Welfare.
Natalie McGee, MSW
acr113@juno.com
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