NFPA BOD Meeting Archives

  Foster care is important and it takes great foster parents to make it happen.

All NFPA members will soon be receiving an electronic ballot asking for an affirmative vote on a new resolution presented to the NFPA Board of Directors on Aug. 3. This resolution regarding allowing access to original birth certificates and information to adult...

With back-to-school shopping this month, giving back to NFPA is easier than ever! Just select us as your charity of choice on Amazon Smile and shop away!  The foster families and foster children we serve across America thank you!!!

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the 2016 Annual National Foster Parent Association's Convention, June 22-25, 2016 at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.

As the National Professional Trade Organization of Foster Families, the National Foster Parent Association is focused on advocating and serving front line foster parents across the United States who provide homes for abused and neglected children. Many of you are...

The biweekly electronic newsletter of the National Foster Parent Association, The NFPA Informer, has taken on a new look and feel as of September 2015.  NFPA has partnered with paper.li to create our new interactive and very informative web-based newsletter, focused...

The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is the workplace giving program of the federal government of the United States.  According to its website, the mission of the CFC "is to promote and support philanthropy through a program that is employee focused, cost-efficient,...

According to the Child Welfare League of America, once Congress gets beyond appropriations this month they have a number of other areas that either must be addressed or could receive action.  The following areas impact the child welfare and foster care field...

With Congress likely to be discussing appropriations into December there is time for a number of issues and in some cases Congress will have to act. One possibility that was mentioned in early August by Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is a mark-up of...

Foster Youth Museum Presents Lost Childhoods Exhibition at Grace Cathedral October 15 – November 1, 2015  Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco Open Daily, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Foster Youth Museum presents its groundbreaking exhibit about youth...

The winners of the 2015 CedarWorks' Play It Forward contest have been chosen!  Five lucky foster families are in the process of being contacted this week with this wonderfully generous news.  Keep following us for the latest on who has won!!!

Each committee within the National Foster Parent Association needs more volunteer committee members.  There is a place within NFPA for everyone willing to serve.  No matter your skill level, no matter your education or experience, there is a committee where you will...

Currently, the United States does not have a comprehensive framework that governs the rights of the child. As a result, the essential needs of thousands of children are not met, and standards relating to the health, safety, and well-being of children are applied...

Approximately 30 percent of the United States foster care population comprises youth ages 13 to 18 years old and, last year, 23,000 youth aged out of care without any legal tie to a family. Through adoption, youth experience a sense of stability, as well as receive...

The following article is writing by "Confessions of an Adoptive Parent:" Whether you’re an adoptive, foster, or special needs family, there’s a tricky balance between inviting people into your story and keeping private information, private. The best place to begin?...

We need your support! Support children in foster care and adoption by supporting the families that provide safe, nurturing care for them when they can no longer live safely with their parents.  These selfless families make a real difference in the lives of over...

As part of the 2015 initiative, the Children's Bureau, in collaboration with Child Welfare Information Gateway and AdoptUSKids, hosted a free, interactive webinar that focused on older youth adoption. This webinar highlights the adoption story of Mary Lee Esq., who...

From Bluewater Family Support Services, support for foster families: Bluewater is back with a friendly tip we think will make your role as a parent easier and less distressing: connect with you child before attempting to correct your child. Children need to know...

As you begin your holiday shopping, please don't forget that Amazon.com has partnered with the National Foster Parent Association to give back a portion of sells purchased on Amazon Smile when the charity choice is NFPA.  This is a simple, easy, and fast way to give...

  The National Foster Parent Association is please to announce this fantastic news for your high school senior. The Hotelscheap.org Spring 2016 General Scholarship Award opportunity is now available and accepting student application through April 15, 2016 with a...

Five-part webinar series: Leveraging the Strengthening Families Act For more than a decade, the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative has been partnering with communities across the nation to help improve outcomes for young people transitioning from foster care to...

The 2015 CedarWorks Play It Forward contest winners have been announced!  A total of five families were selected by CedarWorks to win a customized CedarWorks play set for their homes!  The following winners are: 1. Karen and Sean Mowad Bristol, CT 2. Janell McNally...

Today’s children are tomorrow’s leaders.  Children and youth who cannot live with their birth parents deserve well trained, safe, nurturing, loving, understanding and supported families that can welcome them to join their family for as long as they need care.  Foster,...

The National Foster Parent Association Board of Director and Council of State Affiliates will be meeting November 9-11, 2015 at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.  These meetings are open to all members of NFPA.  Please plan to join us and hear all...

The final days of waiting are upon us!  CedarWorks "Play It Forward" annual campaign will be announcing it's 2015 winners on September 14, 2015.  This NFPA members only contest awards a free customized CedarWorks play set to several lucky families!  Winners are chosen...

Join renowned foster parenting expert, Dr. John DeGarmo, every week as he discusses foster care and foster parenting issues with guest speakers and families across the country.  This 30-minute program will be sure to leave you feeling more educated, valued, and...

  It's that time of year again and we need you for the Scholarship Committee.  Every year this committee is responsible for determining the National Foster Parent Association scholarship recipients.  Scholarships are awarded to chosen high school senior foster,...

Many of you don't know that Mary Beth Evans, better known to many of you as Kayla Brady on the daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives, is a CASA volunteer.  This wife, mother, actress, and child advocate is partnering with The National Foster Parent Association to...

National Foster Parent Association members have agreed with our board's proposal and have voted YES to allowing access to original birth certificates and information to adult adoptees. For those members who took the time to vote on this important resolution, we...

For all of you in the Washington D.C. area, this will be a fantastic training for foster parents on trauma informed care and aiding children in finding healing.

Congratulations to Rhonda Sciortino on her Purposeful Parenting video series on how best to work with abused or neglected children. Foster parents will be able to view live action scenarios on how to best respond to common themes seen with children in foster, kinship,...

  Foster care is important and it takes great foster parents to make it happen.

All NFPA members will soon be receiving an electronic ballot asking for an affirmative vote on a new resolution presented to the NFPA Board of Directors on Aug. 3. This resolution regarding allowing access to original birth certificates and information to adult...

With back-to-school shopping this month, giving back to NFPA is easier than ever! Just select us as your charity of choice on Amazon Smile and shop away!  The foster families and foster children we serve across America thank you!!!

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the 2016 Annual National Foster Parent Association's Convention, June 22-25, 2016 at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.

As the National Professional Trade Organization of Foster Families, the National Foster Parent Association is focused on advocating and serving front line foster parents across the United States who provide homes for abused and neglected children. Many of you are...

The biweekly electronic newsletter of the National Foster Parent Association, The NFPA Informer, has taken on a new look and feel as of September 2015.  NFPA has partnered with paper.li to create our new interactive and very informative web-based newsletter, focused...

The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is the workplace giving program of the federal government of the United States.  According to its website, the mission of the CFC "is to promote and support philanthropy through a program that is employee focused, cost-efficient,...

According to the Child Welfare League of America, once Congress gets beyond appropriations this month they have a number of other areas that either must be addressed or could receive action.  The following areas impact the child welfare and foster care field...

With Congress likely to be discussing appropriations into December there is time for a number of issues and in some cases Congress will have to act. One possibility that was mentioned in early August by Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is a mark-up of...

Foster Youth Museum Presents Lost Childhoods Exhibition at Grace Cathedral October 15 – November 1, 2015  Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco Open Daily, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Foster Youth Museum presents its groundbreaking exhibit about youth...

The winners of the 2015 CedarWorks' Play It Forward contest have been chosen!  Five lucky foster families are in the process of being contacted this week with this wonderfully generous news.  Keep following us for the latest on who has won!!!

Each committee within the National Foster Parent Association needs more volunteer committee members.  There is a place within NFPA for everyone willing to serve.  No matter your skill level, no matter your education or experience, there is a committee where you will...

Currently, the United States does not have a comprehensive framework that governs the rights of the child. As a result, the essential needs of thousands of children are not met, and standards relating to the health, safety, and well-being of children are applied...

Approximately 30 percent of the United States foster care population comprises youth ages 13 to 18 years old and, last year, 23,000 youth aged out of care without any legal tie to a family. Through adoption, youth experience a sense of stability, as well as receive...

The following article is writing by "Confessions of an Adoptive Parent:" Whether you’re an adoptive, foster, or special needs family, there’s a tricky balance between inviting people into your story and keeping private information, private. The best place to begin?...

We need your support! Support children in foster care and adoption by supporting the families that provide safe, nurturing care for them when they can no longer live safely with their parents.  These selfless families make a real difference in the lives of over...

As part of the 2015 initiative, the Children's Bureau, in collaboration with Child Welfare Information Gateway and AdoptUSKids, hosted a free, interactive webinar that focused on older youth adoption. This webinar highlights the adoption story of Mary Lee Esq., who...

From Bluewater Family Support Services, support for foster families: Bluewater is back with a friendly tip we think will make your role as a parent easier and less distressing: connect with you child before attempting to correct your child. Children need to know...

As you begin your holiday shopping, please don't forget that Amazon.com has partnered with the National Foster Parent Association to give back a portion of sells purchased on Amazon Smile when the charity choice is NFPA.  This is a simple, easy, and fast way to give...

  The National Foster Parent Association is please to announce this fantastic news for your high school senior. The Hotelscheap.org Spring 2016 General Scholarship Award opportunity is now available and accepting student application through April 15, 2016 with a...

Five-part webinar series: Leveraging the Strengthening Families Act For more than a decade, the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative has been partnering with communities across the nation to help improve outcomes for young people transitioning from foster care to...

The 2015 CedarWorks Play It Forward contest winners have been announced!  A total of five families were selected by CedarWorks to win a customized CedarWorks play set for their homes!  The following winners are: 1. Karen and Sean Mowad Bristol, CT 2. Janell McNally...

Today’s children are tomorrow’s leaders.  Children and youth who cannot live with their birth parents deserve well trained, safe, nurturing, loving, understanding and supported families that can welcome them to join their family for as long as they need care.  Foster,...

The National Foster Parent Association Board of Director and Council of State Affiliates will be meeting November 9-11, 2015 at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.  These meetings are open to all members of NFPA.  Please plan to join us and hear all...

The final days of waiting are upon us!  CedarWorks "Play It Forward" annual campaign will be announcing it's 2015 winners on September 14, 2015.  This NFPA members only contest awards a free customized CedarWorks play set to several lucky families!  Winners are chosen...

Join renowned foster parenting expert, Dr. John DeGarmo, every week as he discusses foster care and foster parenting issues with guest speakers and families across the country.  This 30-minute program will be sure to leave you feeling more educated, valued, and...

  It's that time of year again and we need you for the Scholarship Committee.  Every year this committee is responsible for determining the National Foster Parent Association scholarship recipients.  Scholarships are awarded to chosen high school senior foster,...

Many of you don't know that Mary Beth Evans, better known to many of you as Kayla Brady on the daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives, is a CASA volunteer.  This wife, mother, actress, and child advocate is partnering with The National Foster Parent Association to...

National Foster Parent Association members have agreed with our board's proposal and have voted YES to allowing access to original birth certificates and information to adult adoptees. For those members who took the time to vote on this important resolution, we...

For all of you in the Washington D.C. area, this will be a fantastic training for foster parents on trauma informed care and aiding children in finding healing.

Congratulations to Rhonda Sciortino on her Purposeful Parenting video series on how best to work with abused or neglected children. Foster parents will be able to view live action scenarios on how to best respond to common themes seen with children in foster, kinship,...

  Foster care is important and it takes great foster parents to make it happen.

All NFPA members will soon be receiving an electronic ballot asking for an affirmative vote on a new resolution presented to the NFPA Board of Directors on Aug. 3. This resolution regarding allowing access to original birth certificates and information to adult...

With back-to-school shopping this month, giving back to NFPA is easier than ever! Just select us as your charity of choice on Amazon Smile and shop away!  The foster families and foster children we serve across America thank you!!!

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the 2016 Annual National Foster Parent Association's Convention, June 22-25, 2016 at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.

As the National Professional Trade Organization of Foster Families, the National Foster Parent Association is focused on advocating and serving front line foster parents across the United States who provide homes for abused and neglected children. Many of you are...

The biweekly electronic newsletter of the National Foster Parent Association, The NFPA Informer, has taken on a new look and feel as of September 2015.  NFPA has partnered with paper.li to create our new interactive and very informative web-based newsletter, focused...

The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is the workplace giving program of the federal government of the United States.  According to its website, the mission of the CFC "is to promote and support philanthropy through a program that is employee focused, cost-efficient,...

According to the Child Welfare League of America, once Congress gets beyond appropriations this month they have a number of other areas that either must be addressed or could receive action.  The following areas impact the child welfare and foster care field...

With Congress likely to be discussing appropriations into December there is time for a number of issues and in some cases Congress will have to act. One possibility that was mentioned in early August by Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is a mark-up of...

Foster Youth Museum Presents Lost Childhoods Exhibition at Grace Cathedral October 15 – November 1, 2015  Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco Open Daily, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Foster Youth Museum presents its groundbreaking exhibit about youth...

The winners of the 2015 CedarWorks' Play It Forward contest have been chosen!  Five lucky foster families are in the process of being contacted this week with this wonderfully generous news.  Keep following us for the latest on who has won!!!

Each committee within the National Foster Parent Association needs more volunteer committee members.  There is a place within NFPA for everyone willing to serve.  No matter your skill level, no matter your education or experience, there is a committee where you will...

Currently, the United States does not have a comprehensive framework that governs the rights of the child. As a result, the essential needs of thousands of children are not met, and standards relating to the health, safety, and well-being of children are applied...

Approximately 30 percent of the United States foster care population comprises youth ages 13 to 18 years old and, last year, 23,000 youth aged out of care without any legal tie to a family. Through adoption, youth experience a sense of stability, as well as receive...

The following article is writing by "Confessions of an Adoptive Parent:" Whether you’re an adoptive, foster, or special needs family, there’s a tricky balance between inviting people into your story and keeping private information, private. The best place to begin?...

We need your support! Support children in foster care and adoption by supporting the families that provide safe, nurturing care for them when they can no longer live safely with their parents.  These selfless families make a real difference in the lives of over...

As part of the 2015 initiative, the Children's Bureau, in collaboration with Child Welfare Information Gateway and AdoptUSKids, hosted a free, interactive webinar that focused on older youth adoption. This webinar highlights the adoption story of Mary Lee Esq., who...

From Bluewater Family Support Services, support for foster families: Bluewater is back with a friendly tip we think will make your role as a parent easier and less distressing: connect with you child before attempting to correct your child. Children need to know...

As you begin your holiday shopping, please don't forget that Amazon.com has partnered with the National Foster Parent Association to give back a portion of sells purchased on Amazon Smile when the charity choice is NFPA.  This is a simple, easy, and fast way to give...

  The National Foster Parent Association is please to announce this fantastic news for your high school senior. The Hotelscheap.org Spring 2016 General Scholarship Award opportunity is now available and accepting student application through April 15, 2016 with a...

Five-part webinar series: Leveraging the Strengthening Families Act For more than a decade, the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative has been partnering with communities across the nation to help improve outcomes for young people transitioning from foster care to...

The 2015 CedarWorks Play It Forward contest winners have been announced!  A total of five families were selected by CedarWorks to win a customized CedarWorks play set for their homes!  The following winners are: 1. Karen and Sean Mowad Bristol, CT 2. Janell McNally...

Today’s children are tomorrow’s leaders.  Children and youth who cannot live with their birth parents deserve well trained, safe, nurturing, loving, understanding and supported families that can welcome them to join their family for as long as they need care.  Foster,...

The National Foster Parent Association Board of Director and Council of State Affiliates will be meeting November 9-11, 2015 at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.  These meetings are open to all members of NFPA.  Please plan to join us and hear all...

The final days of waiting are upon us!  CedarWorks "Play It Forward" annual campaign will be announcing it's 2015 winners on September 14, 2015.  This NFPA members only contest awards a free customized CedarWorks play set to several lucky families!  Winners are chosen...

Join renowned foster parenting expert, Dr. John DeGarmo, every week as he discusses foster care and foster parenting issues with guest speakers and families across the country.  This 30-minute program will be sure to leave you feeling more educated, valued, and...

  It's that time of year again and we need you for the Scholarship Committee.  Every year this committee is responsible for determining the National Foster Parent Association scholarship recipients.  Scholarships are awarded to chosen high school senior foster,...

Many of you don't know that Mary Beth Evans, better known to many of you as Kayla Brady on the daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives, is a CASA volunteer.  This wife, mother, actress, and child advocate is partnering with The National Foster Parent Association to...

National Foster Parent Association members have agreed with our board's proposal and have voted YES to allowing access to original birth certificates and information to adult adoptees. For those members who took the time to vote on this important resolution, we...

For all of you in the Washington D.C. area, this will be a fantastic training for foster parents on trauma informed care and aiding children in finding healing.

Congratulations to Rhonda Sciortino on her Purposeful Parenting video series on how best to work with abused or neglected children. Foster parents will be able to view live action scenarios on how to best respond to common themes seen with children in foster, kinship,...