Foster and Adoptive Parent Support Bill

Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025This bill requires state plans for child welfare services to provide for the development and implementation of a family partnership plan to improve foster care placement stability, increase rates of kinship placements, and align the composition of foster and adoptive families with the needs of children in or entering foster care. The Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families also must include in its annual report information from states about the number, demographics, and characteristics of foster and adoptive families as well as a summary of the challenges related to recruiting and being foster or adoptive parents.

1. This bill requires states to create plans to recruit and support foster and adoptive families. 2. States must involve current foster and adoptive families in developing these plans. 3. The plans should include data on the number and demographics of foster families and children. 4. States must report on challenges in recruiting families that reflect the racial and ethnic backgrounds of children in care. 5. The bill aims to improve the stability and success of foster and adoptive placements.

Foster and adoptive families, children in foster care, and state child welfare agencies.