Voice for Adoption

ADVOCACY & POLICY: ADVOCACY AGENDA

Voice for Adoption advocates for improved adoption and child welfare policies to remove barriers to adoption for children in foster care who are waiting for permanent families and provide support for adoptive families.

For 2008, Voice for Adoption continues to hold post-adoption services as its top advocacy priority. We are also working actively to promote a wide range of improved adoption laws and policies to help waiting children in foster care find permanent, loving families and to support adoptive families.

Voice for Adoption has endorsed many important bills that have been introduced in the 110th Congress. We strongly support the following bills:

  • Adoption Equality Act (HR 4091 / S 1462 )
  • Foster Care Continuing Opportunities Act (S 1512)
  • Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2007(S 379)
  • Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act of 2008 (S 3038)
  • Kinship Caregiver Support Act of 2007(HR 2188 / S 661)
  • Medicaid Foster Care Coverage Act of 2007(HR 1376)
  • To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to increase payments to States for expenditures for short term training of staff of certain child welfare agencies (HR 2314)
  • Tribal Foster Care and Adoption Act of 2007(HR 4688 / S 1956)
  • White House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010 Act (HR 5461/ S 2771)

Click here to download a chart with more details on the bills that VFA endorses.

 

In addition to promoting our advocacy agenda through our own efforts, Voice for Adoption lends its support to advocacy campaigns being run by other organizations. For more information on these campaigns, please use the links below.

Children’s Defense Fund’s Healthy Child campaign
www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=healthy_child

Generations United’s All Children Deserve a Permanent Family campaign
www.gu.org/UG_Ab1201435.asp

Human Rights Campaign's All Children – All Families initiative
www.hrc.org/acaf

Kids Are Waiting campaign, a project of the Pew Charitable Trusts
kidsarewaiting.org

Third National GrandRally for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children
www.grandrally.org

Voice for Adoption is also a collaborating organization of National Adoption Day.