Jim McDermott

The 2010 budget which includes some limited funding for demonstration projects that seek to reduce long term foster care can assist in the development of reforms

The committee is joined by one of the Members of the Full Committee, Earl Pomeroy from North Dakota, who is one of those who was very often bending my ear on this issue.

CWLA thanks you for your leadership last year and for your continuing interest and dedication to addressing the needs of abused and neglected children.

Thank you for your testimony.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I respectfully suggest there are other topics well worth exploring also.

Those would be good topics for future hearings, too.

All of us have a responsibility for foster children, and we need to squarely meet that obligation.

Our action last fall to improve the child welfare system represented a bipartisan, bicameral commitment to work together to significantly improve the lives of our most vulnerable children. But our work is not done.

Thank you for that question.

More needs to be done

I commend this Subcommittee for convening a panel of experts in order to raise awareness of the major issues surrounding home visitation.

Thank you for this opportunity to provide testimony on the importance of a federal investment in early childhood home visitation.

We are grateful to Congressmen McDermott and Rangel and the members of the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support...

We congratulate the Committee for scheduling the hearing on this important proposal and for advancing the Administration's home visiting initiative in Congress.

We strongly support the framework put forth in the bill: to establish a mandatory federal funding stream to support evidence based home visitation programs.

We are anxious to help support this legislation in any way possible.

We applaud the leadership taken by Chairman Jim McDermott with Representatives Danny Davis and Todd Platts.

I would like to recognize Chairman McDermott and Representatives Davis (IL), and Platts (PA) for their continued leadership on this very important strategy.

We fully support President Obama's budget recommendation to help states implement, expand and establish quality voluntary home visiting models.

Every Child Succeeds (ECS) is a voluntary home visiting program whose aim is to improve the health and development of at-risk children in the Cincinnati region.

Thank you for holding this important hearing, and for the opportunity to submit this testimony for the Record.

We applaud the efforts of both Chairman McDermott and Representative Danny Davis, as well as Representative Todd Platts...

We would like to thank Chairman McDermott, Representative Danny Davis and Representative Todd Platts for their leadership on this issue

We thank Chairman McDermott for your leadership in this critical area through your sponsorship of the Early Support for Families Act of 2009 (H.R. 2667)