We were pleased to welcome @ACF_Adams today to discuss our model and the strong outcomes we are achieving for children and families. #HeadStart is the foundation of this work: high-quality early learning, comprehensive services, and family partnerships. #HeadStartWorks
🚨25 states join A Home for Every Child🚨
To deliver on President Trump’s and First Lady Melania Trump’s Executive Order on Fostering the Future, ACF launched A Home for Every Child.
180 days later, half the nation has signed on to the national initiative!
.@ACF_Adams joins @glennbeck to explain state momentum behind ending the “orphan tax.”
Governors and state legislatures have taken action to preserve survivor benefits for foster youth, with states like Nebraska, Louisiana, and Mississippi leading the charge.
Proud to join @ACF_Adams to announce our participation in the “A Home for Every Child” initiative to strengthen families, reduce the number of kids in foster care, and ensure a loving home for every child.
Thrilled to welcome @GovGianforte and Montana to A Home for Every Child!
Montana has done a great job with prevention, adoption tax credits, and faith-based partnerships — a model for other states!
Importantly, Montana is the 25th state to join so we are officially half way there…together we can ensure homes are waiting on kids, not kids waiting on homes.
Every child deserves to grow up in safe, stable, and loving home.
As part of our commitment to supporting kids in foster care, we're partnering with @ACFHHS on the "A Home for Every Child" initiative to increase the number of licensed foster families in Montana.
A new $6 million competitive grant opportunity for child welfare agencies to pilot predictive analytics represents ACF’s latest push to help modernize supports children and families in need.
@State_Scoop explains: https://t.co/z6a8NAUyks
Every child deserves to learn in a secure and protected environment. Our partnership with @usedgov reinforces this commitment to child safety and ensures families can trust that their children are safe while pursuing their education. @ACFHHS
https://t.co/S0mRqag3sj
NEW: ACF announced $6 million to help states, territories, and tribes pilot predictive analytics in child welfare to improve child safety and caseworker decision-making.
Learn more: https://t.co/eipGKoNk5T
Almost half the nation! Texas is the 24th state to join ACF’s “A Home for Every Child” initiative aimed at improving the ratio of foster homes to children in care.
Thank you, @GregAbbott_TX for your leadership!
We appreciate your partnership @MikeCrapo! Honored to work with your team to make a difference for foster youth and the nation’s incredible foster parents
May is National Foster Parent Appreciation Month, a time to recognize the selfless individuals who open their hearts and homes to children in need. The “A Home for Every Child” initiative, led by Idaho’s own @ACF_Adams as Assistant Secretary of @acfhhs, is transforming the child welfare system. Thank you to Alex for his efforts and to the foster families across Idaho who provide the stability and love every child deserves. https://t.co/dP8kSG6aqd
Thrilled to welcome Texas to A Home for Every Child - we are close to the tipping point of half of all states joining!
Appreciate @GregAbbott_TX’s leadership in improving child welfare outcomes!
The Lone Star State joins “A Home for Every Child!”
"Gov. @GregAbbott_TX is putting the needs of Texas’ children & families first" by working to keep families together & remove needless barriers that discourage loving families from fostering.—@ACF_Adams
👉https://t.co/7hAEA0lz6P
States across America continue to take action to improve the ratio of foster homes-to-children in foster care.
ACF is thrilled to welcome Connecticut, New Jersey, and South Dakota to our "A Home for Every Child" initiative.
Learn more: https://t.co/0KQUEuM6pi
“Resurrecting an emphasis on parental choice — and shifting the focus away from federal mandates that handcuff states’ ability to pioneer new models and approaches to supporting parents — is a welcome and necessary step toward expanding child care support for America’s families.”
My @realDailyWire piece on how the Trump administration's parental choice child care policy gives parents more options and control is available here: https://t.co/1227PZR6NV
Every year, thousands of vulnerable children go missing from our foster care system, making them prime targets for child sex trafficking.
Operation Hope is taking direct aim at this crisis. Thank you @POTUS for making the safety of our most vulnerable children a priority.
In Toledo, Ohio, @ACF_Adams and I visited Clever Bee Academy, a Head Start program, where we met with staff and children, discussed the importance of healthy nutrition, and announced a $30,000 nutrition grant to support the academy’s work serving local families.
THE FOSTERING THE FUTURE ACT
Today, the House unanimously passed the Fostering the Future Act.
Senators- we have momentum. Let’s protect our foster care community and enact permanent law now.
THE FOSTERING THE FUTURE ACT
This afternoon, the United States House of Representatives unanimously passed the Fostering the Future Act (H.R. 7432).
Unanimous. Bipartisan. Action.
Thank you Chairman @RepJasonSmith, Chairman @RepLaHood, Ranking Member @RepDannyDavis, plus every American leader who is working to protect America's foster care children.
Now, the momentum moves to the Senate.
Majority Leader @LeaderJohnThune — America’s next generation is counting on you.