National Grants

First Star Kent State Academy
To provide resources, programming and coaching to strengthen the relationships of college-bound youth and caregivers impacted by the child welfare system to promote legal permanency

Generations United
To identify strategies and inform stakeholders on best practices to engage and support kinship families post-finalization

National Adoption Association
To build and strengthen child welfare systems and leaders to adopt, embed and sustain change projects that result in increased Black family and cultural connections, and increased perceptions of Black families who are at the highest risk of family separation

National Center for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression (The National SOGIE Center)
To provide tailored technical assistance from field experts to help child welfare and adoption professionals adopt best practices, navigate challenges and ensure culturally competent services for LGBTQ+ youth and families impacted by the child welfare system

Second Nurture
To support foster care and adoption in the Jewish community

Adoptee Mentoring Society
To support a mentoring program for adoptees

Alliance for Children’s Rights
To increase the number of legal finalizations of older youth and non-minor dependents (ages 15–21) in Los Angeles County and to provide legal training on permanency for older youth

Center for Adoption Support and Education
To increase adoption-competent mental health providers nationwide through the accredited, evidence-based Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) program

Families Rising
To support the Adoption Subsidy Resource Center to advocate for adoption subsidies and tax credits at the policy level and on behalf of individual families

Treehouse Foundation
To provide intergenerational housing to children and youth who have been impacted by the child welfare system, their low-income caregivers and low-income older adults

State-Specific Post-Permanency Grantees
To identify emerging best practices to facilitate more effective, streamlined or supportive post-permanency resources for families created through the Foundation’s Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program.

ABA Center on Children and the Law
To distribute a national toolkit highlighting the legal community’s role in supporting kin to help achieve permanency for youth in foster care

Bolder Horizon
To develop a fellowship program to retain and develop bipartisan federal child welfare policy leaders to inform future child welfare policy and generate better outcomes for children and families

Center for Rights of Abused Children
To expand the National Attorney Referral Network to connect children in foster care with trained, supported attorneys who can help children navigate their foster care legal proceedings

Child Welfare League of America
To develop the first and only volume of Permanency Standards to inform best practices, promote equity and community engagement and prevent youth from lingering in the foster care system

Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
To provide funding for the Foster Youth Intern program, placing young people with lived foster care experience with members of Congress to advocate for federal child welfare policy reform

Fostering Change for Children
To increase retention rates of frontline child welfare workers by providing dedicated recruitment, training and support

National Council For Adoption
To create resources, provide trainings and conduct research to advocate for better policies and support for adopted individuals and families

Voice for Adoption
To host meetings of the State Advisory Council to support the development of bipartisan, consensus-based child-welfare policy recommendations and communicate these recommendations to federal policymakers

Family to Family Support Network
To address systemic barriers to better support child and family outcomes and reduce child welfare involvement

Fostering Media Connections
To elevate literature and news coverage around child welfare and adoption issues to better educate policy makers and the general public