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NFPA Advocacy Position Statement and Advocacy Priorities

We are pleased to announce and provide, for your use, NFPA's new Advocacy Priorities and Position Statement to be used to guide us through this year. NFPA will continue to update these statements on a regular basis.

Arnold Eby

Executive Director, NFPA

Click the images below to review the complete document or download.

Download: Advocacy Position Statement PDF

Download: Advocacy Priorities PDF

Learn more about S. 162, A bill to amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to improve foster and adoptive parent recruitment and retention.

Foster Care Facts

505,000 young people were in foster care for at least of some of the year. Entries Dashboard, ‘Served’ (bottom, left)
As of September 30, 2024, 328,963 children were actively in foster care.
2.5M are being raised in kinship families (GKSNetwork.org)
117,000 are waiting to be adopted (AdoptUSKids.org)
15,000 young adults age out of foster care annually (emancipated). AFCARS Exit Dashboard.
31-46% of youth who age out end up being homeless by age 26 (Youth.gov)