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Arizona's Foster Care Review Boards strive to serve the best interests of Arizona's dependent children. The following organizations also work towards helping and protecting children.

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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www.nationalcasa.org

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15 March 2007

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