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Tom Atwood testifies at Congressional hearing on improving child protective services

On May 23, 2006, at the invitation of the House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resources, NCFA President Thomas Atwood offered testimony on improving child protective services to better serve children within the foster care and child welfare systems. Congress is currently considering the reauthorization of the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, and Atwood’s remarks addressed the need to preserve and fund this program, and maintain its flexibility, as well as the importance of adoptive and foster parent recruitment and post-placement services for adoptive families. Additionally, he stressed the need for flexible funding to provide for effective prevention and rehabilitation programs to meet the needs of children and families, and concurrent planning so that adoption can be made a more immediate and timely case goal for a child in foster care if parental reunification is not possible.

Click here to read Tom Atwood’s full written testimony submitted to the House Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means.

Click here to read Tom Atwood’s oral testimony before the House Subcommittee.