Stays in residential care should be based on the child's specialized behavioral and mental health needs.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has drafted legislation that would bolster funding for prevention and services to families.
I think kin are often underutilized and tend to be the type of providers who will provide stable homes.
You and Senator Hatch, in my view, have been real leaders on this topic, and I am very grateful.
As the title of this hearing suggests, foster care group homes are no place to grow up.
I want you to know that I am going to make sure, as we talk about this, that we are going to do this in a bipartisan way...
It should not have happened.
We ought to be considering those fresh approaches, fresh ways of thinking about how we serve the goal that all Americans...
This account that you have just given provides a real wakeup call to this committee, because this is something, colleagu...
What are we going to be able to do in this bill?
There is wide consensus that children and youth, especially young children, are best served in a family setting.
It would have been more work for the bureaucracy.
I am appreciative of working with Senator Grassley on the caucus.
This can be done in a bipartisan way, colleagues.
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