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KIDS ARE WAITING

All Children Deserve a Permanent Family

All Children Deserve a Permanent Family is a Generations United campaign designed to raise awareness about the need for subsidized guardianship to help children move out of foster care into safe and loving homes of grandparents and other relatives. Across the U.S. about 20,000 children are in foster care with relatives and are waiting for a normal childhood. For these kids a court has deterined that they cannot be safely returned to their parents and adoption is not possible.  But because they are in state custody, they have to get permission from authorities for ordinary childhood activities that most of us take for granted. A sleepover at a friend's house or going on a school field trip can turn into a bureaucratic nightmare.  Federally supported guardianships could end these problems.

Through support provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts, GU is conducting awareness raising activities to educate media, policymakers, and the public on policy recommendations that provide the services and resources children in foster care with relatives need to reach successful adulthood. Special attention is given to the recommendation of The Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care to allow states to use federal Title IV-E federal foster care funding for subsidized guardianship programs for children in foster care. The Pew Charitable Trusts is also championing a broader campaign called Kids Are Waiting: Fix Foster Care Now. It is a national, non-partisan campaign dedicated to ensuring that all children in foster care have the safe, permanent families they deserve by reforming the federal financing structure that governs our nation's foster care program.

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