Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
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Families
Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4] (R) — IA
Summary
This bill requires state plans for child welfare services to provide for the development and implementation of a family partnership plan to improve foster care placement stability, increase rates of kinship placements, and align the composition of foster and adoptive families with the needs of children in or entering foster care.
The Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families also must include in its annual report information from states about the number, demographics, and characteristics of foster and adoptive families as well as a summary of the challenges related to recruiting and being foster or adoptive parents.
Legislative subjects
Adoption and foster care; Child safety and welfare; Congressional oversight; Families; Family relationships; Family services; Government information and archives; State and local government operations
Latest action
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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