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North Carolina LINKS is a program of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services.. The agency's website states that the name LINKS was chosen as a word that captures the purposes and intent of the Foster Care Independence Act also known as The John H Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.
In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]
Those who participate in the AB12 program are considered non-minor dependents of the county in which they were placed into foster care. Foster youth are allowed to re-enter the program up until age 21 if they opted out earlier. [8] The AB12 program allows for two additional supervised independent living setting placements for non minor dependents.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is restoring some proposed cuts to funding for foster care youth, in response to bi-partisan pressure and criticism from advocates.
NC attorney: A foster care bill making its way through the NC legislature would unnecessarily take kids from their families | Opinion
Republican House Speaker Tim Moore said Wednesday that the General Assembly plans to fund more money for the Opportunity Scholarship program. The program uses taxpayer money to fund private school ...
ASFA was enacted in a bipartisan manner to correct problems inherent within the foster care system that deterred adoption and led to foster care drift. Many of these problems had stemmed from an earlier bill, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, [1] although they had not been anticipated when that law was passed, as states decided to interpret that law as requiring biological ...
A lawsuit accusing North Carolina officials of unnecessarily warehousing foster children in locked psychiatric facilities has survived the Department of Health and Human Services’ effort to ...