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Foster Care Alumni of America
Foster Care Alumni of America (FCAA) is a national, independent non-profit organization founded and led by alumni of the foster care system. FCAA is the only national organization that provides opportunities for alumni of foster care to join together and to use our experiences and power to effect positive change. We believe that lasting change happens when alumni have opportunities to connect with each other and with our allies—those people who share our mission—to advocate for better futures for people in and from foster care.
The
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
The National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues is
dedicated to achieving safety, permanence and well-being for abused and
neglected children through improved laws and judicial decision-making.
The Resource Center provides training, technical assistance and consultation to
agencies and courts on all legal and judicial aspects of the child welfare
system, including court improvement, agency and court collaboration, court
process, reasonable efforts requirements, legal representation of children and
their families, guardianship, confidentiality and other emerging child welfare
issues.
AdoptUSKids.org
AdoptUSKids.org is a national photo listing service for children awaiting
adoption across the United States. You may "Meet
the Children" by searching our photo listing.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better
futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The
primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service
reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's
vulnerable children and families.
2005
KIDS COUNT Data Book
This system contains state-level data for over 75 measures of child well-being,
including all the measures regularly used in our popular KIDS COUNT Data Book.
This easy-to-use, powerful online database allows you to generate custom reports
for a geographic area (Profiles) or to compare geographic areas on a topic
(Ranking, Maps, and Line Graphs).
LawForKids.org
LawForKids.org is America's first stand alone web site dedicated to teaching
children about the law. The Site was created by the Arizona Foundation for Legal
Services and Education with the specific goal of educating Arizona's youth,
their parents, communities and schools to increase their knowledge about youth
laws and to encourage law-abiding behavior.
Foster Club
Foster Club's mission is to provide foster children with a network that allows
them to communicate with other other and provide them with education,
motivation, and benefits that the foster care system does not usually provide.
National
Adoption Day
National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the
119,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. For
the last six years, National Adoption Day has made the dreams of thousands of
children come true by working with courts, judges, attorneys, and advocates to
finalize adoptions and find permanent, loving homes for children in foster care.
Center on
Children and the Law
Improving children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge,
practice, and public policy. A program of the American Bar Association Young
Lawyers Division. This site includes the Association's Standards of Practice for
Lawyers Representing a Child.
The
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public charity
dedicated to increasing the adoptions of the more than 150,000 children in North
America’s foster care system. Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s International,
created the Foundation in 1992 in support of the vision that every child
deserves a permanent home and a loving family. The Dave Thomas Foundation for
Adoption focuses on increasing adoption awareness while supporting model
adoption service programs.
Adoption
assistance information by State
Adoption assistance information by State is provided by the Association of
Administrators of the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance and
the American Public Human Services Association.
Delaware Child
Placement Review Board
(CPRB) serves foster children in the State of Delaware by involving, trained
citizen volunteers in regular reviews of where these children have been placed,
how they are treated, and how their changing needs are being addressed.
NCCPR
The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform works to improve the
child welfare system through litigation and public education.
Oregon
Citizen Review Board
The Oregon Judicial Department's Citizen Review Board (CRB) creates a system of
checks and balances in which the public can affect how our state's child welfare
and juvenile justice systems are serving children, youth, and families.
Nebraska State Foster
Care Review Board
The State Foster Care Review Board’s mission is to ensure the best interests
of children in out-of-home care are being met through external citizen review,
monitoring facilities that house children and youth, maintaining up-to-date data
on a statewide tracking system, and disseminating data and recommendations
through an Annual Report.
South
Carolina Foster Care Review Board
Every child in South Carolina deserves the opportunity to grow up knowing the
many advantages of a safe, secure, healthy, permanent family.
National Court
Appointed Special Advocate Association
In the United States, over one half million children are in foster care because
they cannot safely live with their families. CASA volunteers work to ensure that
these children do not suffer further abuse due to the overburdened court system
or at home.
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