Diligent Relative Searches

Children have a right to family. We champion laws to ensure agencies act immediately to find grandparents, siblings, and relatives from the moment a child enters the care system.

Key Points

Preventing Trafficking: Safety begins with a family. We shut down the trafficking pipeline by securing safe family placements over group homes.

Events & Testimonies

  • Woman presenting in a courtroom, addressing judge, emphasizing legal advocacy for children in foster care.

    Testimony: Support Senate Bill 88

    Support Senate Bill 88 Modifies provisions relating to the due diligent search for and placement of a child with a relative. Oral Testimony - Brad Galbraith, Director of Policy, Center [...]

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  • Child with pigtails observing a woman holding a baby, both in a sunlit garden, symbolizing family connections and nurturing relationships in child welfare.

    Testimony: Suppose House Bill 2554

    Modifies provisions relating to the due diligent search for and placement of a child with a grandparent or other relative. Read full testimony.

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Op-Eds

  • Close-up of a child's face in soft lighting, highlighting the eye and facial features, representing the emotional impact of foster care and child welfare initiatives.

    America’s Flood of Opioid Orphans

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Research & Reports

  • Family portrait featuring a joyful young girl in a yellow polka dot dress, smiling and playfully pointing to her cheeks, seated between a smiling father in a floral shirt and a mother with long hair, highlighting themes of family stability and child welfare.

    Fact Sheet: Family Search and Stability Act

    ABUSED KIDS IN CRISIS The number of children in foster care is increasing. Children are sleeping in government office buildings as the need for foster families outstrips the supply. The [...]

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Resources & Tools

Podcasts & Audio

Television & Video

Model Reforms