Implementation News

States have begun implementing the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, and several have made significant progress. This section is intended to highlight the latest legislation, news and approaches underway across the nation. If you know of a state which has made good progress that should be featured here, please contact us at .

State and Tribal Approaches to Implementation

Adoption

Arizona's foster parent recruitment efforts
Currently, Arizona utilizes GIS mapping to assist in identifying specific geographic areas having high child removal rates, so that foster families can be recruited in these geographic areas. Read more. The Fostering Connections Resource Cente...
OH: Public Children Services Association of Ohio Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find the Public Children Services Association of Ohio grant summary here....
AB 154 Chapter 222 Enacted
States the intent of the Legislature to conform state statutes with the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 and to expend savings resulting from changes in eligibility for adoption assistance on services, inc...
AB 295, Chapter 427 Enacted
Extends the availability of funds appropriated for adoption activities to specified counties to to provide preadoption and postadoption services to ensure the successful adoption of children and youth who have been in foster care 18 months or more, a...
AB 665 Chapter 250
Makes a change to provisions of existing law under which the State Department of Social Services may provide state adoption services and which requires the state to reinvest adoption incentive payments for placement of older children into the child w...
HB 4159 Enacted
Modifies the adoption support subsidy to include that the department may pay a support subsidy to an adoptive parent if specific requirements are met including that the adoptee is a child with special needs. Determines that the maximum amount of the ...
SB 2080 Chapter 1238 Enacted
Develops the permanency care assistance program which authorizes foster care payments for relative caregivers who meet the eligibility criteria under federal and state law and department rule. Permanency care assistance may be extended after age 18 a...
SB 597 Chapter 339 Enacted
Makes amendments necessary to be consistent with the requirements set forth in the federal Fostering Connections Act. These include requiring the State Department of Social Services to exercise diligence to identify and provide notice to all adult gr...
HB 1151 Chapter 1118 Enacted
Extends adoption assistance to a child's adoptive parents after age 18 and until age 21. Establishes that the department shall include training in trauma-informed programs and services in any training the department provides to foster parents, adopti...

Education

Colorado's educational stability efforts
In 2008, House Bill 1019 created a child welfare education liaison designated by each school district and state charter school institute. The child welfare education liaisons collaborate with child placement agencies, county departments, the state de...
Delaware's educational improvements for youth in foster care
In 2004, Delaware passed HB 279 requiring Deleware's Department of Services for Children, Youth and Families and the Department of Education to implement practices pertaining to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Educational Assistance Improvement Act to he...
Illinois' use of technology to ensure educational stability
Illinois has a geographic information systems (GIS) application called "SchoolMinder." This GIS technology helps identify available foster homes that are near both the child's current educational setting and the home from which he or she was removed...
Kansas' educational stability indicators
Educational stability is currently managed in Kansas on an aggregate level using the American Bar Association's indicators of success. One such indicator is: How many children are attending the same school as they were prior to entering care? R...
Texas supports educational specialists to address educational needs of children in foster care
Texas was found to be in substantial conformity on the education outcome in the federal on-site Child and Family Service Review (CFSR) in March 2008. In Texas, strong cross system collaborations between DFPS and school districts help improve the educ...
Tennessee's educational stability efforts
Currently, DCS has fifteen regional education specialists who work closely with school systems to ensure that each child remains in his/her current school if possible. These specialists advocate for education stability at Child and Family Team meetin...
Wisconsin's educational stability efforts
To help facilitate educational transitions for youth in care, Wisconsin has developed a guide for child welfare and educational departments, which offers solutions to improve cross-systems collaboration. In response to P.L. 110-351, DCF will update t...
SB 152 Enacted
Relates to administrative and planning requirements involving children for whom the Department of Human Services has responsibility under state or federal law. Revises transition planning for older children in foster care who are age 16 or older and ...
HB 590 Enacted
Requires public school governing authorities to ensure that children in foster care are allowed to remain enrolled in the same public schools in which they were enrolled when entering foster care. Provides that if the placement is outside the jurisdi...
SB 588 Enacted
Provides that a student placed by the Department of Health and Human Services with an adult who is not the child's parent or legal guardian in accordance with the educational stability provisions of the federal Fostering Connections to Success and In...
HB 154 Enacted
Requires the state to make diligent efforts to contact and locate the grandparents of a child for emergency placement, except when the children's division determines this to not be in the best interest of the child. Defines "diligent efforts" to incl...
SB 291 Enacted
Creates a "Foster Care Education Bill of Rights" which designates an educational liaision from each school district to each child in foster care. Establishes that each child placing agency shall promote the educational stability for foster care child...
HB 1734 Chapter 338
Creates a Passport Program in the Department of Human Services to compile education, medical, and behavioral health records for children in protective custody, kinship care, and foster care. The Passport shall accompany each child to wherever the chi...
HB 63 Enacted
Amends education requirements related to enrollment and attendance in order to comply with the requirements of the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act. Requires a court to attempt to keep sibling groups of minors tog...
HB 1734 Chapter 338 Enacted
Creates a Passport Program in the Department of Human Services to compile education, medical, and behavioral health records for children in protective custody, kinship care, and foster care. The Passport shall accompany each child to wherever the chi...

Health

Arkansas' health screening process
In Arkansas, eighty-nine percent of children entering foster care receive a health screening within 24 hours. The state hopes to increase that outcome to 95 percent. Eighty-seven percent of children who entered foster care between May 2007 and April ...
Colorado's health passport
Colorado has a mandatory requirement that every child in placement have a health passport. Read more. The Fostering Connections Resource Center gratefully acknowledges the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators for providi...
DC's health care coordination efforts
The Children and Family Services Agency in Washington, D.C. has a unique collaborative within the Agency to coordinate and ensure youth in care receive adequate health care, dental care and mental health services. Health services are tracked, monitor...
Florida's health care coordination efforts
In Florida, in September 2008, an interagency agreement was signed by the Department and agencies responsible for Health, Health Care Administration, Persons with Disabilities, and Juvenile Justice. This group was convened on February 5, 2009 specifi...
Illinois' health and well-being monitoring model
Illinois operates a Child and Youth Invest Team (CAYIT) which is a team decision making model. These multidisciplinary teams are full-time and regionally-based and are responsible for assessing a child or youth service needs, identifying the resourc...
Maine's health coordination efforts
Maine's state policies mirror the health oversight and coordination plan under P.L. 110-351. For instance, the state requires that all children in foster care receive a health assessment within 72 hours of placement. Maine has just initiated a ...
Massachusetts health care coordination strategies
Massachusetts state law stipulates that every child have a medical exam, including Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) screening within 30 days of placement. Massachusetts provides a medical passport for each child in placem...
New Mexico's health care coordination for youth in foster care
New Mexico has a pediatrician on staff that helps coordinate health services and is available to consult with staff. The agency also works closely with the Family, Infant ,Toddler Program to coordinate services for the 0 to 3 populations. . The Behav...
Pennsylvania's health care coordination strategy
The state is monitoring counties closely to see if counties are implementing appropriate health oversight and drafting coordination plans. Many counties utilize a managed care system for children in placement. There is an emphasis on special-needs ch...
Utah's health care coordination strategies
A contract with the Department of Health enables immediate access to medical care to any child entering the placement system in Utah. Any urgent medical needs are provided immediately. The protocol is for every child to have a physical exam wit...
SB 597 Chapter 339 Enacted
Makes amendments necessary to be consistent with the requirements set forth in the federal Fostering Connections Act. These include requiring the State Department of Social Services to exercise diligence to identify and provide notice to all adult gr...
HB 1734 Chapter 338 Enacted
Creates a Passport Program in the Department of Human Services to compile education, medical, and behavioral health records for children in protective custody, kinship care, and foster care. The Passport shall accompany each child to wherever the chi...

Kinship/Guardianship

Michigan's Guardianship Assistance Program
The Michigan Department of Human Services is the fourth state in the nation to receive an approved state plan amendment for the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program (Kin-GAP). Michigan had enacted state legislation authorizing guardianship for ch...
Rhode Island's Guardianship Assistance Program
Rhode Island's state plan amendment for guardianship approved Following the passage of the Fostering Connections Act, Rhode Island was the first state to receive an approved state plan amendment for the federal guardianship assistance program (GAP...
Pennsylvania's Guardianship Assistance Program
Pennsylvania’s state plan amendment for guardianship approved In 2009, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Office of Children, Youth and Families received approval from the federal government for its state plan amendment for ...
Tennessee's Guardianship Assistance Program State Plan Amendment
In 2009, the Tennessee Department of Children's Services received approval from the federal government for its state plan amendment for the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program (GAP). Tennessee had been conducting a Title IV-E waiver demonstr...
Arkansas' family finding efforts
Arkansas is collaborating with the Wendy's Wonderful Kids program to help improve their intensive family finding efforts. Read more. The Fostering Connections Resource Center gratefully acknowledges the National Association of Public Child Wel...
Delaware's family finding strategies
Delaware has "Special Investigators" assigned to the agency that hold police authority. Through that authority they have the ability to access law enforcement search programs to assist staff in locating parents and other relatives. Delaware also has ...
Florida's efforts to improve sibling placement rates
In Florida, several initiatives underway place emphasis on sibling issues including: family centered practice training, longest waiting teens project, and family finding efforts. Florida continues to work to improve sibling placement practices. ...
Illinois kinship placement strategies
A comprehensive diligent search procedure supports Illinois' dedication to placing children with relatives. Within 48 hours of taking protective custody of a child or screening a child into care through the state attorney's office, the worker must lo...
Indiana's focus on keeping siblings together
In Indiana, eighty three percent of siblings are placed together. Indiana has designed data information systems to track sibling placements. Whenever siblings are separated the effort to reunify them continues throughout the life of the case. The Dep...
Kentucky's family finding program
Kentucky has an intensive family finding program pilot project in one region. The results of this program are positive. There is great interest in pursuing expansion of this program. Read more. The Fostering Connections Resource...
New Hampshire's kinship placement efforts
As part of its five-year goals, DCYF has a mission to focus on relatives as caregivers with three innovative approaches. These cultural shifts are due in large part to New Hampshire's 2003 Child and Family Service Review (CFSR) and subsequent Program...
New Jersey's sibling connections strategies
New Jersey's efforts to maintain sibling connections have grown significantly in recent years. The state places a particular focus on recruiting foster care/adoptive families prepared to take siblings, and those strongly suited toward multiple child...
Oregon's efforts for keeping siblings together
Two years ago, Oregon passed a law which requires that one of the first placement considerations must be that siblings are placed together. If it is not possible for siblings to be placed together, it must be documented as to why this did not occur a...
Virginia's strategies for improving placing siblings together.
The 2008 General Assembly amended the Code of Virginia (the Code) to strengthen sibling rights and visitation. The Code requires all reasonable steps be taken to place siblings together in the same foster home, and when siblings are placed in separat...
Washington's family identification strategies
Washington has an intensive family finding program that began in Pierce County with a contract funded by the mental health and child welfare programs. The contractor is Catholic Community Services. This program was developed as a crisis response for ...
Maintaining Sibling Connections in Iowa
Iowa legislation enacted in 2007 promotes ongoing connections for siblings placed in foster care. The Iowa law preceded enactment of the federal provision to require reasonable efforts to place siblings together. The process for enacting the Iowa la...
Listing of Family Connection Grants
Family Connection Discretionary Grants Up to $1,000,000 per year for up to 3 years. YMCA of San Diego County, San Diego, CA Four Oaks Family and Children's Services, Cedar Rapids, IA Amethyst, Inc., Columbus, OH State of Hawaii Department of Hu...
CA: Aspiranet Inc.Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Aspiranet Inc.'s grant summary here. ...
MN: Minnesota Kinship Caregivers Association Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Minnesota Kinship Caregivers Association's summary here....
NJ: The Children's Home Society of New Jersey Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey summary here....
CA: YMCA of San Diego County, YMCA Youth & Family Services Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find YMCA of San Diego County, YMCA Youth & Family Services summary here....
WI: Children's Service Society of Wisconsin Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find the Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin's summary here....
IA: Four Oaks Family and Children's Services Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find the Four Oaks Family and Children's Services summary here....
NJ: International Social Service-USA Branch Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find the International Social Service-USA Branch's summary here....
FL: Kids Central Inc. Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Kids Central Inc.'s summary here....
FL: Partnership for Strong Families Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find the Partnership for Strong Families summary here....
OH: Amethyst, Inc. Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Amethyst, Inc.'s summary here....
OR: OnTrack Inc. Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find OnTrack Inc.'s summary here....
TN: Renewal House, Inc. Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find the Renewal House, Inc.'s summary here....
MN: The Wayside House Inc. Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find The Wayside House Inc.'s summary here....
WI: Wisconsin Department of Children and Families Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Wisconsin Department of Children and Families summary here....
WA: Catholic Charities Diocese of Yakima's Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Catholic Charities Diocese of Yakima's summary here....
CA: Lilliput Children's Services Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Lilliput Children’s Services summary here....
ME: Maine DHHS, Office of Child and Family Services Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Maine DHHS, Office of Child and Family Services summary here....
MD: Maryland Department of Human Resources Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Maryland Department of Human Resources' summary here....
OK: Oklahoma Department of Human Services Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Oklahoma Department of Human Service's summary here....
RI: Rhode Island Foster Parents Association's Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Rhode Island Foster Parents Association's summary here....
SC: South Carolina Department of Social Service Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find South Carolina Department of Social Service's summary here....
HI: State of Hawaii Department of Human Services Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find the State of Hawaii Department of Human Service's summary here....
CA: Edgewood Center for Children and Families Family Connection Grant Summary
On September 30th, 2009, the Children's Bureau awarded 24 discretionary grants. Find Edgewood Center for Children and Families summary here....
SB 2080 Chapter 1238 Enacted
Develops the permanency care assistance program which authorizes foster care payments for relative caregivers who meet the eligibility criteria under federal and state law and department rule. Permanency care assistance may be extended after age 18 a...
SB 152 Enacted
Relates to administrative and planning requirements involving children for whom the Department of Human Services has responsibility under state or federal law. Revises transition planning for older children in foster care who are age 16 or older and ...
HB 154 Enacted
Requires the state to make diligent efforts to contact and locate the grandparents of a child for emergency placement, except when the children's division determines this to not be in the best interest of the child. Defines "diligent efforts" to incl...
SB 597 Chapter 339 Enacted
Makes amendments necessary to be consistent with the requirements set forth in the federal Fostering Connections Act. These include requiring the State Department of Social Services to exercise diligence to identify and provide notice to all adult gr...
HB 1151 Chapter 1118 Enacted
Extends adoption assistance to a child's adoptive parents after age 18 and until age 21. Establishes that the department shall include training in trauma-informed programs and services in any training the department provides to foster parents, adopti...
HB 2013, Act 1311 Enacted
Requires the Department of Human Services to identify and provide notice to all adult grandparents and other adult relatives within 30 days of a juvenile transferred to the custody of the department. Requires court reports to include information and ...
SB 351, Act 325 Enacted
Amends Arkansas' relative guardianship subsidy program to add those children who are eligible for Title IV-E foster care maintenance payments and who have been in the care of a relative for at least six months to the list of eligible children under t...
AB 938 Chapter 261 Enacted
Requires a social worker, when a child is removed from the home, to immediately begin conducting an investigation in order to identify and locate all grandparents, adult siblings, and other adult relative of the child, in order to provide those perso...
SB 245 Chapter 436 Enacted
Amends portions of the Colorado Children's Code to comply with the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 concerning kinship placements and due diligence. Allows the court to order the Department of Human Servic...
Hb 5421 Chapter 185 Enacted
Establishes that at the temporary custody hearing regarding the placement of a child, the court shall identify any person or persons related to the child or youth by blood or marriage who might serve as licensed foster parents, certified relative car...
HB 254 Enacted
Determines that within 30 days after the removal of a child from the custody of the parent or parents of the child, the department shall exercise due diligence to identify a parent or relative of the child or other persons who have demonstrated an on...
HB 2365 Public Act 276 Enacted
Creates the Kinship Navigator Act. Defines "kinship care" as the full time care and of children by relatives, members of their tribes or clans, grandparents, godparents, stepparents, or any adult who has physical custody and a kinship bond. Establish...
SB 227 Public Act 15 Enacted
Creates the Guardianship Assistance Act to provide a negotiated, binding agreement for financial support for children who meet the qualifications for guardianship assistance. Sets eligibility of child and guardian. Specifies that only a relative who ...
SR 27 Enacted
Urges Congress to take certain actions with regard to the federal guardianship assistance program by revising the funding to allow the six-month residency requirement to begin to run prior to licensing of the home, provided that both the home is lice...
SB 1503, Chapter 163 Enacted
Companion to HB 1709. Establishes that the responsible social services agency shall make diligent efforts to identify and locate both parents of any child who is the subject of child welfare proceedings, as well as conduct a relative search to identi...
AB 153 Chapter 53 Enacted
Makes appropriations for the support of government - Education, Labor and Family Assistance Budget, including appropriations for developing and implementation of a new subsidized kinship guardianship program consistent with the federal fostering conn...
HB 1094 Chapter 267 Enacted
Relates to placement of siblings in foster care and a guardian's duty to exercise due diligence to identify and provide notice to all potential relative caregivers. Sponsored by Human Services Committee; Rep. Delzer and Sen. Erbele Find out more he...
SB 339 Chapter 160 Enacted
Requires the court, at the emergency custody hearing of the child, to mandate the parent, legal guardian, or custodian to list all parents and relatives as potential placements for the child. Requires the Department to exercise due diligence to ident...
HB 507 Enacted
Proposes to modify the permanent guardianship law for children to comply with new federal provisions and enable guardians to access federal funds for guardianships. Sponsored by Representative Pugh. Find out more here....
HB 1961 Chapter 235 Enacted
Expands foster care up to age 21, expands the current relative guardianship program, and expands their current child welfare services. Clarifies the authority of the Department of Social and Health Services to provide continuing foster care placement...
HB 1938 Chapter 234 Enacted
Directs the court reviewing and approving an adoption agreement to encourage consideration of providing postadoption contact between siblings who will be separated by the adoption. Requires the court to inquire of attorneys and GALs representing chil...
SB 103 Chapter 196
Establishes that notice be served of child protective proceedings, regarding a child who is alleged to have been abused or neglected, to a non-custodial parent or putative father who has not had parental rights to the child removed by a court, and wh...

Older Youth

DC's Transition Planning for Older Youth
In the District, transition plans should begin no later than 90 days before a youth exits foster care and when they turn 19 years of age. Additionally, transition plans in the District are youth-led and young people aging out work with independent li...
Delaware's transition planning efforts
Delaware requires youth with an Alternative Permanency Placement Living Arrangement (APPLA) to have their transition plan reviewed by the court every six months, rather than annually. The state is also required to consider family connections througho...
Illinois' transition planning efforts
Illinois, in collaboration with the Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center, will develop a Life Skills Coaching Program that will prepare children and youth between the ages of six and twenty for successful transition into adult self-sufficiency...
Indiana's transition planning efforts
In Indiana, effective July 1, 2009, IC 21-12-6-14 requires that each child in the care and custody of DCS be provided information about the following programs: Pell grants, Chafee grants, federal supplemental grants, free application for federal stud...
Ohio's transition strategies for older youth
Ohio has robust transition plans, policy and practice in place. Local Public Children Services Agencies (PCSA) conduct life-skills assessments for each youth in substitute care who has attained the age of 16 or whom the state feels is ready to ...
South Carolina's transitional housing efforts for older youth
In South Carolina, child welfare funds are blended with housing authority program funds to cover transitional housing costs and provide services, which include educational services, employment assistance and therapeutic counseling. Transition plannin...
SB 2080 Chapter 1238 Enacted
Develops the permanency care assistance program which authorizes foster care payments for relative caregivers who meet the eligibility criteria under federal and state law and department rule. Permanency care assistance may be extended after age 18 a...
SB 152 Enacted
Relates to administrative and planning requirements involving children for whom the Department of Human Services has responsibility under state or federal law. Revises transition planning for older children in foster care who are age 16 or older and ...
HB 1151 Chapter 1118 Enacted
Extends adoption assistance to a child's adoptive parents after age 18 and until age 21. Establishes that the department shall include training in trauma-informed programs and services in any training the department provides to foster parents, adopti...
HB 1961 Chapter 235 Enacted
Expands foster care up to age 21, expands the current relative guardianship program, and expands their current child welfare services. Clarifies the authority of the Department of Social and Health Services to provide continuing foster care placement...
SB 359 Act 391 Enacted
Establishes that the Department of Human Services shall develop a transitional plan with every juvenile in foster care not later than the juvenile's seventeenth birthday or within ninety (90) days of entering a foster care program for juveniles who e...
HB 4054 Public Act 581
Creates the Foster Youth Successful Transition to Adulthood Act. Establish a program of transitional discharge from foster care for teenage foster children, enabling former foster youths under the age of 21 who encounter significant hardship upon ema...
SB 666, Chapter 106
Allows certain foster children between the ages of 18 and 21 to request, and requires the local agency to develop, a specific plan related to the foster child's vocational, educational, social, or maturational needs, and must ensure that any foster c...
SB 248 Chapter 239 Enacted
Includes in the New Mexico Children's Code that prior to the foster child's 18th birthday the court shall review the transition plan and determine whether the department has made reasonable efforts to have a complete transition plan for the youth. S...
HB 704 Chapter 96 Enacted
Adds a section to the Family Code establishing extended jurisdiction over a foster youth, if the youth requests it, after the youth's 18th birthday. Allows a court to conduct placement review hearings for a child in the managing conservatorship of th...

Training

HB 1151 Chapter 1118 Enacted
Extends adoption assistance to a child's adoptive parents after age 18 and until age 21. Establishes that the department shall include training in trauma-informed programs and services in any training the department provides to foster parents, adopti...

Tribal

Michigan's efforts to improve outcomes for American Indian and Native American children in foster care
Michigan has 12 federally recognized tribes, which are as follows: Bay Mills Indian Community, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Hannahville Indian Community, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chi...
Missouri's collaboration efforts with Indian Centers
There are no federally recognized tribes in Missouri. But there are three multipurpose social service centers for Native Americans: Heart of America Indian Center in Kansas City; American Indian Council in St. Louis and the Southwest Missouri Indian ...
Montana's coordination of child welfare services for American Indian/Native American children
Montana has twelve Indian Tribes on seven federal reservations: Fort Peck (Assiniboine and Sioux), Blackfeet, Rocky Boy (Chippewa and Cree), Fort Belknap (Assiniboine and Gros Ventre), Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Flathead (Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Ko...
AB 770 Chapter 124 Enacted
Maximizes the opportunities for Indian tribes to operate foster care programs for Indian children pursuant to the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008; rquires the Department of Social Services to modify the s...
HB 1298 Chapter 88 Enacted
Increases county program aid payable to Beltrami County in the calendar year 2009 to be used by the county to the governing body of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians for the cost of implementing the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing...