Articles of category "Recent United States Foster Care Legislation"

There is a new foster care legislation bill being tried in the Senate for Michigan. They want twenty percent of all public foster care to be changed over to a private sector. This has caused a major up roar in the foster care community. Is this the right choice for the children, or is the state only looking to save money. This question is causing foster care parents to lose sleep at night. That is your choice to make.

While foster care programs are administered by state and local agencies, they receive a large portion of their funding from the Federal government. This means that local legislation controls the details of the administration of the foster care programs and Federal legislation sets the broad outlines and goals of the program. The most recent foster care legislation from the Federal Government is the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.