US: Child Abuse Prevention: Senators Seek More CAPTA Money for Community-Based Family Services
Imprint – September 14, 2021
Saying efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect are “tragically underfunded,” a pair of U.S. senators have introduced a bill that uses an unconventional approach that could pump hundreds of millions of dollars into fighting the problem by strengthening families in the coming decade. Although it is the official policy of the United States to use the foster care system as a last resort, Sens. Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico) and Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) say the balance between funding for foster care services and child abuse and neglect prevention remains way out of whack.
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