BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SCR 35
Author: Steinberg (D), et al
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE OR FILE
SUBJECT : Foster Care Month
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates May 2009 as Foster
Care Month.
ANALYSIS :
Resolution findings:
1.In California, there are 75,000 children and youth in
foster care who need and deserve safe permanent
connections to loving adults, stable homes, and adequate
preparation for a secure future.
2.The needs of children and youth for a sense of belonging
and unconditional emotional commitment are best met in
families.
3.Many California counties have successfully supported
permanent family connections for foster youth, provided
support for families at risk of entering the child
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welfare system, and changed practices to fully engage
youth, family, and communities, thereby reducing the
number of children and youth in foster care.
4.California recognizes the enduring and valuable
contribution of relatives, foster parents, and adoptive
parents who open their hearts, families, and homes to
vulnerable children and youth.
5.California recognizes the numerous individuals and public
and private organizations that work to ensure that the
needs of children and youth living in, and leaving,
foster care are met, that help to provide foster children
and youth and former foster children and youth with vital
connections to their siblings, and that help launch young
people into successful adulthood.
6.There is a new federal awls, the Fostering Connections to
Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Public Law
110-351), that offers opportunities to promote permanent
families for children in foster care, improves outcomes
for older youth in foster care, increases support for
Native American foster children and youth, improves the
quality of staff working with children and youth in the
child welfare system, expands our support of relative and
adoptive caregivers, and assists older foster youth in
securing meaningful supportive transitions from foster
care.
7. The new federal act affirms California's leadership and
success in pioneering innovative child welfare
approaches.
8.California is committed to working in partnership with
the federal government to improve the lives and futures
of all children and youth touched by the child welfare
system.
This resolution designates May 2009 as Foster Care Month.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
CTW:do 4/28/09 Senate Floor Analyses
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SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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