Summer 2017

Written By Voice for Adoption

June

  • VFA's executive director, Schylar Baber, co -authored an op-ed concerning Texas' House Bill 3859 "Texas Law Prioritizes Child Welfare Providers Over Children" with April Dinwoodie, chief executive of the Donaldson Adoption Institute (DAI), and Kimberly Paglino, program director of the DAI, and Mary Boo, executive director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children. Click here to read the piece.  

  • VFA works to fight for Medicaid protection for youth in foster care and adoptive families during Health Care reform. 

  • VFA stands with other organizations to fight and successfully save the Adoption Tax Credit that was about to be eliminated during tax reform efforts. 

  • Worked towards the passage of the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 that would open up federal foster care dollars to be used to prevent foster care altogether. 

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