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This week, the Trump administration granted government-contracted child welfare agencies in South Carolina permission to discriminate against Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Unitarian, atheist, agnostic, and other prospective foster and adoptive parents [...]
From Adoptalk 2018, Issue 4; Adoptalk is a benefit of NACAC membership. The number of children and teens in US foster care and the number of youth adopted from foster care rose in 2017, according [...]
Center for American Progress, NACAC, and Voice for Adoption Release Report on Religious Refusal Bills Currently, 10 states have religious exemption laws permitting adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate [...]
This February, the South Carolina Department of Social Services informed state-contracted faith-based foster care agency Miracle Hill Ministries that it could lose federal funding if it continued to discriminate against [...]
In September, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services released a proposed rule that would force immigrant parents at the border to decide between waiving their [...]
In March 2018, the city of Philadelphia learned that two of its foster care providers would not allow same-sex couples to be foster parents. One agency changed its policy and [...]
This week, US District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) unconstitutional in the case of Brackeen v. Zinke, where a non-Native American couple sued for the [...]
The undersigned organizations call on the Congress to immediately reject a recent amendment that was included in the House Appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and [...]
by Anna Libertin, NACAC's Communications Specialist, and Mary Boo, NACAC's Executive Director. Earlier this spring, the US was highly focused on the impact of the Department of Homeland Security’s [...]
By implementing a "zero tolerance" immigration policy, the United States Department of Homeland Security has forcibly separated thousands of families in the past six weeks, sending children to massive detention [...]
This legislative session, legislatures in Kansas and Oklahoma have passed bills that would allow agencies to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. We encourage you to join us [...]
In 2017, NACAC joined other organizations—including FosterClub, the Youth Law Center, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Children’s Village, and Christian Alliance for Orphans—in a national campaign to ensure bright [...]
