Organizations Supporting the Family First Prevention Services Act

Bipartisan, Bicameral Solution for Evidence-Based Foster Care Prevention Services

Organizations from across the United States have come out in support of the Family First Prevention Act. A full list of supporters is below.

  • AAJ Research & Evaluation (Florida)
  • Adoption Exchange Association
  • Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine Inc.
  • Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine, Inc and the Kinship Program
  • Advocates for Children and Youth (Maryland)
  • Advocates for Children of New Jersey
  • Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
  • American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • American Bar Association (ABA)
  • American Psychological Association (APA)
  • American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
  • Arizona’s Children Association
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
  • Association of State and Tribal Home Visiting Initiatives
  • Association of University Centers on Disability
  • Brazelton Touchpoints Project, Inc.
  • Buckner International
  • CASA Youth Advocates (Pennsylvania)
  • Catholic Charities USA
  • Center for Children’s Justice (Pennsylvania)
  • Center for Native American Youth
  • Center for Public Priorities (Texas)
  • Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)
  • Child and Family Policy Center (Iowa)
  • Child and Family Services of New Hampshire
  • Child Care Aware of America
  • Child First, Inc.
  • Child Welfare League of America
  • Children & Families First (Delaware)
  • Children and Family Futures
  • Children Awaiting Parents (New York)
  • Children First for Oregon
  • Children’s Action Alliance (Arizona)
  • Children’s Advocacy Alliance (Nevada)
  • Children’s Advocacy Institute
  • Children’s Defense Fund – California
  • Children’s Defense Fund – Minnesota
  • Children’s Defense Fund – Mississippi
  • Children’s Defense Fund – New York
  • Children’s Defense Fund – Texas
  • Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)
  • Children’s Home + Aid (Illinois)
  • Children’s Home Society of America
  • Children’s Home Society of North Carolina
  • Children’s Hospital Association
  • Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
  • Children’s Leadership Council
  • Children’s Rights
  • Children’s Trust Fund or Oregon/Prevent Child Abuse Oregon
  • Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc.
  • Coalition on Human Needs
  • Conference of Chief Justices
  • Conference of State Court Administrators
  • Connecticut Voices for Children
  • Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
  • Covenant House International
  • Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch (North Dakota)
  • Easterseals
  • Every Child Matters
  • Families And Children Together (Maine)
  • Family Policy Alliance
  • First Five Years Fund
  • First Focus Campaign for Children (FFCC)
  • Florida’s Children First, Inc.
  • Focus on the Family
  • Foster Adopt Connect
  • Foster Adopt Connect (Missouri and Kansas)
  • Foster Club
  • Foster Family-based Treatment Association (FFTA)
  • Futures Without Violence
  • Generations United
  • Gift of Hope, Grandparents and Others Raising America’s Children (Illinois)
  • Girls Inc. of Alameda County, CA
  • Girls Inc. of Carpinteria, CA
  • Girls Inc. of Greater Los Angeles, CA
  • Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, CA
  • Girls Inc. of Long Island
  • Girls Inc. of New York City
  • Girls Inc. of Orange County, CA
  • Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region (New York)
  • Girls Inc. of the Island City in the city of Alameda, CA
  • Girls Inc. of Westchester
  • Girls, Inc.
  • Governor Gary R. Herbert – State of Utah
  • Grandfamilies PTSA, Inc. (Florida)
  • HALOS (South Carolina)
  • Harlem Dowling – West Side Center for Children and Family Services
  • Healthy Families America
  • Healthy Teen Network
  • Heartland Family Resource Center
  • Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
  • HopeSparks (Tacoma, WA)
  • Human Rights Project for Girls (Rights4Girls)
  • Illinois Department of Children & Family Services
  • Juvenile Law Center (JLC)
  • Juvenile Law Center (Pennsylvania)
  • Kansas Appleseed
  • Kentucky Youth Advocates
  • Kinship Families Coalition of Kentucky
  • Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)
  • Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois
  • Lutheran Family and Children’s Services of Missouri
  • Lutheran Family Services of Virginia
  • Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains (CO, NM)
  • Lutheran Services Florida
  • Lutheran Services in America
  • Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jerseys
  • Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
  • Lutheran Social Services of Indiana
  • Lutheran Social Services of Nevada
  • Lutheran Social Services of New York
  • Many Lights Foundation (Washington)
  • Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange
  • Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
  • Michigan’s Children
  • Nathan L. Hecht – Chief Justice – The Supreme Court of Texas
  • National African American Drug Policy Coalition, Inc.
  • National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds
  • National Association for Children of Alcoholics
  • National Association for Children’s Behavioral Health (NACBH)
  • National Association of Black Social Workers
  • National Association of Counsel for Children
  • National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
  • National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators (NAPCWA)
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD)
  • National Center for Youth Law
  • National Center on Adoption and Permanency
  • National Center on Child Welfare and Housing
  • National Center on Shared Leadership
  • National Child Abuse Coalition
  • National Children’s Alliance
  • National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
  • National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
  • National Family Preservation Network
  • National Foster Parent Association
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association
  • National Kinship Alliance for Children
  • National Respite Coalition
  • Nebraska Appleseed
  • New Mexico Voices for Children
  • New York Coalition for Child Welfare Finance Reform
  • North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
  • Nurse-Family Partnership
  • Open Arms (Kentucky)
  • Parent-Child Home Program
  • Parents Anonymous Inc.
  • Parents as Teachers
  • Partners for Our Children (Washington)
  • Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children
  • Prevent Child Abuse America
  • Ray E. Helfer Society
  • Relatives As Parents Program (RAPP) (West Virginia)
  • SafeCare
  • Save the Children
  • Save the Children Action Network
  • School Social Workers Association of America (SSWAA)
  • Strengthening Families All Across America
  • The Arc
  • The Black Administrators in Child Welfare, Inc.
  • The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
  • The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey
  • The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • The Children’s Partnership
  • The Children’s Partnership (California)
  • The Children’s Village
  • The Dalton Daley Group
  • The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
  • The Donaldson Adoption Institute, Inc.
  • The Mockingbird Society
  • The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
  • The National Crittenton Foundation (TNCF)
  • The Ounce of Prevention Fund
  • The Ounce of Prevention Fund (Illinois)
  • The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development
  • Think of Us
  • Treehouse (Washington)
  • United Way Worldwide
  • University of California Davis Guardian Professions Program
  • Voice for Adoption
  • Voices for Alabama’s Children
  • Voices for Children in Nebraska
  • Voices for Ohio’s Children
  • Voices for Vermont’s Children
  • Voices for Virginia’s Children
  • YMCA of San Diego County, Kinship Support Program
  • YMCA of the USA
  • Youth Law Center
  • Youth Law Center (California)
  • Youth Villages
  • Zero to Three

 Notable Remarks:

“Not only recognizes the unique needs of children and families in adversity, but also makes great strides to meet them in a way that pediatricians can stand behind: through evidence-based, prevention-focused approaches.” – American Academy of Pediatrics

“Takes historic and long overdue steps to direct federal child welfare dollars to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families […] takes important steps to ensure children who need foster care will be placed in the least-restrictive most family-like setting appropriate to their needs, and gives special attention to children whose emotional or other special needs require residential treatment.” – Children’s Defense Fund

“Promotes a number of policy priorities our state and local members have identified as key to improving child and family well-being … We appreciate your bipartisan, bicameral effort to address child welfare reform, and specifically, the longstanding policy priority to expand Title IV-E for prevention so that children and parents/caregivers have access to services and interventions that maintain family stability.” – American Public Human Services Association and National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators

“Expand[s] the availability of such services and reflects the reality that many families, including adoptive families, need targeted, effective services to meet their children’s needs and prevent foster care entry.” – North American Council on Adoptable Children

“Offers the important possibility of allowing funds to provide vital mental health, substance use and in-home services that could help children stay with their own families.” – Child Welfare League of America

“Offer[s] relatives the support they need to keep children out of foster care and help them thrive.” – Generations United