Help Grandfamilies Prevent Child Abuse Act

This bill changes the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to address children raised by relatives or close family friends, called kinship families or grandfamilies. It adds kinship service organizations, birth parents, kinship caregivers, and foster care alumni to the federal advisory board on child abuse and neglect. It requires certain grant recipients to plan for placing children with kin first and for licensing kin as foster parents, and it requires states to report how many children were diverted to live with kin outside foster care. It also expands community-based prevention programs to serve kinship families, including training for kinship caregivers.

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Sponsors

• Margaret Wood Hassan Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors