Placement & Permanency

Hearing on Health Care for Children in Foster Care

United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support July 19, 2007 The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), representing public and private nonprofit, child-serving member agencies across the country, is pleased to submit testimony to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support. CWLA commends the Subcommittee for its

Hearing on Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support July 12, 2007 The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), representing public and private nonprofit, child-serving member agencies across the country, is pleased to submit testimony to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support. CWLA commends the Subcommittee and its

Hearing on Disconnected and Disadvantaged Youth

United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support June 19, 2007 The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), representing public and private nonprofit, child-serving member agencies across the country, is pleased to submit testimony to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support. CWLA commends the Subcommittee and its

Statement by Shay Bilchik, President & CEO of Child Welfare League of America on HHS Decision to Grant Foster Care Funding Waivers to Five States

April 11, 2006 Washington, DC - Two inextricably linked events occurred last week in the child welfare world -the Federal government announced that it had granted foster care funding waivers to five states including California, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, and Virginia, immediately following its release of the new national child abuse and neglect data for

CWLA Comments To The EPA Regarding Protections Against Foster Children Taking Part in Pesticide Testing

Pursuant to a request for comments on proposed changes for the Protection of Human Subjects in Pesticide Testing, CWLA submitted the following to the Enivronmental Protection Agency (EPA).  Public Information and Records Integrity Branch Office of Pesticide Programs Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20460-001  Attention: Docket ID Number OPP-2003-0132  December 12,

Statement of the Child Welfare League of America for House Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means for the Hearing on Federal Foster Care Financing

June 9, 2005 The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and our nearly 900 public and private nonprofit child-serving member agencies nationwide applauds the House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee for addressing the issue of federal funding for child welfare at this hearing. We believe that as a country we must confirm

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