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President Bush signed the H.R. 6893 into law Oct 7, 2008

Posted on Oct 14, 2008

Below is the alert circulated by the Children’s Defense Fund, which has played a major role in organizing advocates, along with the Center for Law and Social Policy and many other wonderful advocacy organizations in D.C. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this a reality by writing letters, calling your elected officials, testifying and working with the media. This is an incredibly important development that will change the lives of thousands of children and youth in foster care nationally by:

* Creating a subsidized guardianship program for kinship providers
* Expanding and improving adoption incentives
* Maintaining sibling ties and creating family connections for youth in foster care
* Improving outcomes for older youth by improving transition planning
* Expanding funding for training
* Allowing Indian tribes direct access to federal foster care funding
* Requiring increased health and education for children in foster care
* Providing states the option to extend foster care to age 21!!

Posted by CalICWA Webmaster