On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, CWLA submitted comments for the record about the recent Senate Finance Committee hearing, “The Family First Prevention Services Act: Successes, Roadblocks, and Opportunities for Improvement.”
From the comments: “While this legislation offers important advancements in child welfare policy, orienting Federal funding and attention toward the prevention of foster care, the child welfare system cannot and should not have to solve all the barriers and challenges these families involved with foster care face. There is a need for coordination and shared accountability for preserving families’ ability to care for their child(ren) and preventing children from going into foster care among all child- and family-serving systems in our country, and ultimately, it should not fall to the child welfare system to have the sole responsibility to and oversight of such collaboration.”
