News Report | April 26, 2023
After The Family First Act Was Implemented, 62% Of States Reported Reducing Number Of Congregate Foster Care Placements
Signed into law in 2018, Family First allows states to use Title IV-E funds to support preventive services to help children and families avoid out-of-home placement. It included reforms to federal foster care policy intended to encourage states to provide services to help families avoid out-of-home placement, and in the event that a child entered foster care to ensure that children would be placed in a family-like setting, such as non-relative family foster care or kinship care (with a relative or family friend) rather than in congregate care, whenever possible. October 2021 was . . .