Today's Guest Blogger is Mary Laderer. This article follows the stories of three adopted youth who ended up homeless and later found out that their adoptive parents were still receiving money from the government to care for them. The article asserts that there are loopholes in many states for adoptive parents to continue to receive [...]
Throughout the last few days and continuing into next week, the House Health and Human Services (HHS) Finance Committee has been discussing the delete-everything (DE) amendment to HF 1638, which would turn this bill into the omnibus HHS finance bill. The DE amendment is 354 pages long; what follows is the child welfare–related components. This [...]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the report Housing for Youth Aging Out of Care in May 2014. This report details the housing challenges that youth who age out of the foster care system face. According to the report, several regional studies have shown that between 11 and 37 percent of these [...]
Yesterday Governor Dayton signed the omnibus Health & Human Services (HHS) Finance bill, making it Chapter 108 in the 2013 Session Laws. The main point of this bill was to establish the HHS budget, but there are also policy changes that will impact child welfare. One big change from earlier versions of the bill is [...]
Update 4/16/13, 11:09 AM - Content clarification Update 4/5/13, 11:05 AM - Content clarification On Wednesday in the House Health and Human Services (HHS) Finance committee, Assistant Commissioner of Child and Family Services Erin Sullivan Sutton provided a walk-through of Governor Dayton's updated HHS budget recommendations from his supplemental budget as they pertain to children [...]
The National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth have focused their latest edition of The Exchange on permanency connections for youth. The issues focuses on helping youth who are homeless/runaway connect, build, and improve their permanent connections - that is, a stable living situation that these youth are not afraid of having to leave, with connected [...]
H. R. 3076 was introduced on October 3, 2011. The purpose of this bill is to amend the Internal Revenue Code to qualify formerly homeless youth who are students for purposes of the low income housing tax credit. The bill affects those youth identified as homeless by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act sec. 725, which [...]
