Daily Update February 13, 2015 - Announcement of Family-Based Foster Care Services Act

Dear Ron,

Family-Based Foster Care Services Act

The Foster Family-based Treatment Association (FFTA) is pleased to announce that U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rob Portman have introduced bipartisan legislation that will improve access to treatment foster care services. The Family-Based Foster Care Services Act will establish a federal definition of treatment foster care and a baseline quality standard for this service. A bipartisan companion legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Rep. Tom Cole. Yesterday FFTA leaders, a foster and adoptive TFC parent, and twin boys in kinship care presented testimony at a Congressional Briefing on this legislation (you can access their testimony below).

The Foster Family-based Treatment Association has lead efforts to ensure that children and youth that come into the foster care system with special behavioral health needs and/or medical disabilities, as well as vulnerable children living with kin, can have access to quality services and supports in a family-based setting. This legislation will achieve that. 

We will keep our membership updated on the status of this legislation. In the meantime, see the links below for more information.

Press release from U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rob Portman   

Background on the legislation 

The Senate version of the Family-Based Foster Care Services Act   

The House version of the Family-Based Foster Care Services Act  


Testimony from the Congressional Briefing on the Family-Based Foster Care Services Act

My experience as a foster and adoptive father of TFC youth (Steve Buck)

TFC and Kinship Care (Dr. Sue Miklos)

Step-down from higher levels of care and TFC for non-custody youth (Phyllis Stephenson)

TFC and Psychotropic Medications (Dr. Gerald Nebeker)

 

Thank You,

Melissa Devlin
Foster Family-based Treatment Association
(800) 414-3382, ext. 113
mdevlin@ffta.org   
www.ffta.org
 

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