Virginia’s Foster Care Caucus

Virginia Creates First-Ever Foster Care Caucus: Legislators from both sides of the aisle gathered Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 to show their support for much-needed changes to Virginia’s foster care system. The newly created Foster Care Caucus was hosted by co-chairs Del. Emily Brewer, R-Suffolk and Sen. Monty Mason, D-Williamsburg. The caucus hopes to raise awareness of the deficiencies within the foster care system, support the initial steps to implement the federal Family First Prevention Services Act, and bring structure and supports to the kinship diversion program. Read more about it here. In 2019, Voices helped create the first-ever Foster Care Unified Agenda.  The Unified Agenda can be downloaded here.

The Family and Children's Trust Fund Releases Briefs: Read the Trauma-Informed Homeless Services Issue Brief summary here. Check out the Trauma-Informed Schools Brief summary here. 
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Voices for Virginia's Children Launches Trauma-Informed Virginia Campaign: Voices focuses their analysis and advocacy on developing and championing policies and practices that positively impact the health and well-being of Virginia’s children and families. The goal of the campaign is to influence state policymakers to adopt trauma-informed approaches by increasing investments in prevention of trauma and adopting trauma-informed and evidence-based practices across the state agencies that impact children and families. Learn more here.   Advocacy opportunities.