Help Grandfamilies Prevent Child Abuse Act

This bill changes the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to address children raised by relatives or close family friends, called kinship families, both inside and outside the foster care system. It adds kinship service organizations, birth parents, kinship caregivers, and former foster youth to the federal advisory board on child abuse. It requires grant recipients to plan for placing children with relatives first and to work toward licensing relatives as foster parents. States would report how many children were diverted from the child welfare system to live with relatives outside foster care. Community-based prevention grants would cover kinship families and fund training for kinship caregivers.

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Sponsors

• Mary Gay Scanlon Democrat sponsor
• 2 cosponsors