Briefs

FosteringConnections.org offers non-partisan information on the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act by providing resources created by us and our collaborating partners.  Our Connections series highlights facts and figures on various sections of the law.

Connections

• No. 1 - Number of Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Continues to Rise, by Marci McCoy-Roth, Madelyn Freundlich and Timothy Ross January 2010
• No. 2 - Designing Foster Care to 21 - A discussion guide for policymakers, by Barbara Langford, Margaret Flynn-Khan and Katherine Gaughen May 2010
  
• No. 3 - Research Support for Achieving Permanency for Youth in Foster Care through Kin Connections COMING SOON
• No. 4 - Fostering Connections through Adoptions, Time to Adoption Decreases Since 1998, but Thousands Still Wait COMING SOON
• No. 5 - West Virginia’s Rules of Juvenile Procedure: Supporting Education and Transition Services for Young People, by Madelyn Freundlich, June 2010
  
  

Non-technical briefs describing the law

The law made significant changes related to several  child welfare-related issues or services. FosteringConnections.org developed a series of non-technical descriptions of these changes. Click below to view pdf files:

• Adoption provisions summary
  
• Education provisions summary
  
• Health provisions summary
  
• Kinship/Guardianship provisions summary
  
• Older Youth provisions summary
  
• Tribal provisions summary