As part of our responsibilities under our new cooperative agreement, the newly funded NRCPFC will provide TA to the new Family Connections Grantees.  As our relationship with our Family Connections grantee colleagues develops, we will be adding information to this web link.

The new Grantees for the next three years, as announced by the Children's Bureau on September 30, 2009 are:

• YMCA of San Diego County, San Diego, CA
• Four Oaks Family and Children's Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
• Amethyst, Inc., Columbus, OH
• State of Hawaii Department of Human Services, Honolulu, HI
• Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima, dba CFCS R, Richland, WA
• Edgewood Center for Children and Families, San Francisco, CA
• Aspiranet, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
• International Social Service United States of American B, Baltimore, MD
• Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Oklahoma City, OK
• Kids Central, Inc., Ocala, FL
• The Wayside House, Inc., St. Louis Park, MN
• Minnesota Kinship Caregivers Association, St. Paul, MN
• Maryland Depart Human Resources, Baltimore, MD
• State of Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, Madison, WI
• RI Foster Parents Association, East Providence, RI
• Children's Service Society of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
• South Carolina Department of Social Services, Columbia, SC
• Lilliput Children's Services, Sacramento, CA
• On Track, Inc., Medford, OR
• Renewal House, Inc., Nashville, TN
• Partnership for Strong Families, Gainesville, FL
• The Children's Home Society of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
• Department of Health & Human Services, Augusta, ME
• Public Children Services Association of Ohio, Columbus, OH

Resources

• RFP for Family Connections Grant
  
  
• The Fostering Connections Resource Center
  The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (Fostering Connections) became Public Law 110-351 on October 7, 2008. The new law represents the most significant federal reforms to foster care in more than a decade. The actual impact of the legislation on children, however, will depend largely upon how it is implemented. Implementation of the Act involves the process of promulgating and issuing federal regulations, decisions by state policymakers as to how or if to respond to new federal funding opportunities, and efforts made by the larger child welfare community to provide input into program and policy development. The Fostering Connections Resource Center was established to aid states and Tribes in implementation of this bill. Child Trends and The Finance Project have primary responsibility for managing the Resource Center. (2009)