Time for Reform FIX THE FOSTER CARE LOOKBACK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Time for Reform FIX THE FOSTER CARE LOOKBACK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Pew Charitable Trusts would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their assistance, including Dr. Elliott Smith, associate director of Cornell University's National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, for completing and verifying all the new data analyses included within; Mary Bissell and Jennifer Miller of ChildFocus for their assistance with writing and research; Madelyn Freundlich for her editing and research assistance; Marlene Cimons for her writing and editing assistance; and the following individuals for their review and comment: Pauline Abernathy, deputy director, Health and Human Services division, The Pew Charitable Trusts; Gina Russo, Kids are Waiting communications manager; Don Schmid, Title IV-E consultant; Steve Christian, National Conference of State Legislatures; Dr. Mark Testa and Melinda Lis, Children and Family Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Simmons, National Indian Child Welfare Association; Jaia Petersen-Lent, Generations United; Joe Kroll and Mary Boo, North American Council on Adoptable Children; Tom Atwood and Jennifer Cole, National Council for Adoption; Carol Emig and Rob Geen, Child Trends; all of the individuals who provided quotations or consent to use quotations from other publications or venues; and all of those who willingly shared their experiences to inform this report. Marci McCoy-Roth, program officer with The Pew Charitable Trusts, was responsible for guiding the development, research and writing of this report. The views expressed here represent those of the Trusts and not necessarily of the individuals acknowledged above. The report was designed by Freedom by Design, Inc. The children pictured on the cover are models and the photo is being used for illustrative purposes only. The image is licensed from Getty Images. Time for Reform FIX THEFOSTER CARELOOKBACK Thousands of foster children and the states responsible for them are losing the critical help they need from the federal government. In 1998, 53 percent of the children in foster care were eligible for federal support, but, by 2005, the percentage had declined to 46 percent—an estimated 35,000 fewer eligible foster children. The number eligible for federal financial assistance is projected to continue to decline by approximately 5,000 children each year. 1 The decrease in the number of children eligible for federal foster care has translated into an estimated $1.9 billion loss in federal foster care support to the states between 1998 and 2004.2 Because states are required by federal law to protect children from harm and provide foster care services when necessary, states must make up the difference. And as states devote more of their resources to foster care, fewer funds are available to provide the range of other services children and families need.

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