Giving foster children their owed disability and survivor benefits could help them avoid societal pitfalls
Child Welfare
Child welfare policy is a system with extraordinary authority—removing children, intervening in families, making life-altering decisions.
And yet, it often operates without the level of transparency or performance clarity the public expects elsewhere in government.
FREOPP developed its project, The Center for Safe and Stable Futures, to drive sound policy for our nation’s children and families. Together, we can change lives for the better.
All Child Welfare
Young people who age out of foster care too often struggle and succumb to poor life outcomes
As the Governor learns more about foster care in Virginia, he will discover that the Commonwealth is not merely neglecting foster children: it is actively stealing from them
Advocates hope the change will spur other child welfare agencies across the country to follow suit
An underrated barrier to equal opportunity is America’s 21st-century expectation that children should be constantly supervised
The program could become a model for other states as lawmakers look to help at-risk youth make the challenging transition to adulthood
Congress needs to stop this practice