Drawing on the expertise and extensive reach of both its membership organizations and its leadership, the National Foster Care Coalition (NFCC) has the capacity to assist states and localities in implementing key child welfare legislation. By engaging the voices of its diverse membership, including youth organizations, foster parents, and others, in the implementation process, NFCC can help ensure that this critically important new legislation will have the greatest positive impact on the children and youth it is intended to benefit.

Currently, NFCC is working on the implementation of the following:

• Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act
• Foster Care Independence Act and the Chafee Education and Training Voucher Program

MEMBER PROJECT PROFILES

Fostering Healthy Connections through Peer Mentoring

The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), in partnership with FosterClub, has secured funding from the New York Life Foundation to launch a three-year initiative, Fostering Healthy Connections. It’s a unique peer mentoring program in which former foster youth mentor children and youth currently in the foster care system in order to develop healthy connections to: improve their educational and behavioral outcomes and strengthen their interpersonal relationships.