Improves Foster Family Recruitment and Support

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. States must create a detailed plan to recruit and support foster and adoptive families. 2. The plan requires input from families, service providers, and youth with foster care experience. 3. States will collect and report data on foster family capacity and utilization annually. 4. The legislation aims to address barriers to recruiting families that reflect the diversity of children in foster care. 5. States must establish foster family advisory boards to enhance recruitment and retention efforts.

This bill affects children in foster care, foster families, and adoptive families across the United States.