Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-03-05 — Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025: Bill (HR579, 119th Congress) requires state child-welfare plans to develop and implement family partnership plans that improve foster-care placement stability, increase kinship placements, and better match foster/adoptive family composition to children’s needs; directs the Children’s Bureau to report annually on foster and adoptive family demographics and recruitment challenges. (novelty: 3)