3 Steps to Asking Your Organization to Support Your Attendance at NACAC’s Conference
NACAC's 49th annual adoption and foster care conference offers [...]
NACAC announces new executive director
The North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) board of [...]
AFCARS Data for 2020 Suggests a Child Welfare System Seriously Slowed by the Pandemic
This fall, the US Department of Health and Human Services [...]
Statement and Resources from Families Rising about Fighting Racism
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Once again, our community is outraged [...]
Supreme Court to Hear Case That Puts Best Child Welfare Practices at Risk
On Monday, February 24, the US Supreme Court agreed to [...]
Number of Adoptions Highest Ever; Foster Care Population Down
By Mary Boo In federal fiscal year 2018, according to [...]
Families Rising Supports Legislation to End Discrimination in Child Welfare
Today, Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) and Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) [...]
NACAC Opposes Decision to Permit Discrimination in South Carolina
This week, the Trump administration granted government-contracted child welfare agencies [...]
Foster Care Numbers Up for Fifth Straight Year
From Adoptalk 2018, Issue 4; Adoptalk is a benefit of NACAC membership. The number of [...]
Voice for Adoption Release Report on Religious Refusal Bills
Center for American Progress, NACAC, and Voice for Adoption Release [...]
NACAC Opposes Lobbying to Allow Discrimination Against Jewish Parents in South Carolina
This February, the South Carolina Department of Social Services informed [...]
NACAC Opposes Proposed Rule Allowing Indefinite Detaining of Children
In September, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health [...]
Families Rising Supports LGBTQ+ Foster and Adoptive Parents in Amicus Brief
In March 2018, the city of Philadelphia learned that two [...]
NACAC Opposes Texas Court Ruling on ICWA
This week, US District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled the Indian [...]
NACAC Joins Child Welfare Organizations to Oppose Aderholt Amendment
The undersigned organizations call on the Congress to immediately reject [...]
NACAC Protects Immigrating Children
by Anna Libertin, NACAC's Communications Specialist, and Mary Boo, NACAC's [...]
NACAC Stands Against Trump Administration’s Separation of Family and Parents
By implementing a "zero tolerance" immigration policy, the United States [...]
NACAC Joins Other Child Welfare Organizations to Oppose Discrimination
This legislative session, legislatures in Kansas and Oklahoma have passed [...]
2016 Saw More Children in Foster Care and More Adopted
Just as it has for the last few years, the [...]
Proposal to Eliminate the Adoption Tax Credit Reversed!
November 9, 2017 Good news! The House Ways and Means [...]