Hundreds of thousands of children who have survived abuse and neglect exit the foster care system without a family to call their own. We believe the right to a family is fundamental. Our reforms increase opportunities for every child to have a safe and loving home. We achieve this, in part, by prioritizing searches for relatives, enforcing time-in-care laws, and providing children with lawyers to enforce their rights.
We also recognize the acute shortage of foster families for children in the system, with only one licensed home available for every two children. Infants are sleeping in overflowing office buildings, and “hoteling” and group homes have become common. We advance policies that increase the number of families willing to welcome children.
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Arizona has 1 foster care home for every 4 children in need. That’s a crisis
As a licensed foster mom, I answered a call from a group home a few weeks before Christmas. When I arrived, I saw a bland environment for children, with identical, impersonal beds pushed up against walls — no stockings, no decorations, no matching pajamas.
It’s National Adoption Month — And With 114,000 Kids Waiting For Adoption, Here’s How We Can Solve It
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INTRODUCTION For more than 25 years, despite countless reforms, outcomes for America’s abandoned, abused, and neglected children in the foster care system have remained unchanged. Children in foster care face a devastating reality—poor educational attainment, staggering suicide rates, and an endless cycle of re-abuse and preventable deaths. Read more here.
Frequent and unnecessary delays in the court cases of Arizona’s foster children add years to a child’s time in state care. Each court continuance delays permanency for a child up to four months. Timely hearings are a matter of due process for all parties and delays are costly to families, children, and taxpayers alike. Senate [...]