Contact your state senator now if you have special needs children through foster care adoption, kinship care, guardianship, or tribal foster care. If you plan to adopt or parent children through any of these avenues, then contact your state senator. Send an urgent email or call by September 10. September 10 is when the Senate is scheduled to act on key child welfare legislation. NACAC (North American Council on Adoptable Children) is encouraging everyone to contact their state Senators to ask them to support S. 3038.

S. 3038 is one of the key bills pending in Congress. “Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act” Here is what NACAC says S. 3038 will do for families parenting special needs children.

 reauthorize and expand the adoption incentive program

make all foster children with special needs eligible for federal adoption assistance (de-linking from old AFDC income standards)

create a federal subsidized guardianship program to support relatives who become guardians so that their kin can permanently leave care