HEHS-00-12 Foster Care: HHS Could Better Facilitate the Interjurisdictional Adoption Process
United States General Accounting Office GAO Report to Congressional Requesters November 1999 FOSTER CARE HHS Could Better Facilitate the Interjurisdictional Adoption Process GAO/HEHS-00-12 GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education, and Human Services Division B-281621 November 19, 1999 The Honorable William V. Roth, Jr. Chairman The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan Ranking Minority Member Committee on Finance United States Senate The Honorable Bill Archer Chairman The Honorable Charles B. Rangel Ranking Minority Member Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) is the most recent federal legislation to emphasize the importance of permanence in the lives of the 520,000 children in foster care and, in particular, the importance of adoption when foster children cannot safely and quickly return to the care of their birth parents. …
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