Blake Moore: “As our country grapples with how to respond to this pressing moment facing women, families, and children, I believe we…”

“As our country grapples with how to respond to this pressing moment facing women, families, and children, I believe we must strive for a better, more compassionate future. All Americans want women and their babies to be safe, loved, and empowered, no matter their situation or socioeconomic status. I believe Americans are capable of seizing this moment and coming together to support those facing tremendous challenges and uncertainty. We can support critical, comprehensive services for women in need. We can make it easier for working-class families to earn money and raise children, and we can support the rights and dignity of our youngest Americans. This month, I was elected to serve on the Ways and Means Committee, and I intend to use this position to do better by American families. We owe our most vulnerable children more effective policies that give them a better runway to achieve their dreams in a broken world. I am engaging on Title IV-B and IV-E programs to ensure child welfare and foster care programs are as evidence based as MIECHV. I am engaging on the Connecting Forever Families Act to expedite foster care placements and help child welfare courts adopt new procedures to address the unacceptable delays and backlogs for children waiting for placements in supportive homes. I will fight for children in foster care who have to spend nights in shelters, government offices, or other inappropriate settings because of our congregate care crisis.…”