Supporting Our Nation’s Children and Youth
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This year, I had the privilege to participate in Foster Youth Shadow Day where Hailey from Ohio joined me in meetings for a day and shared her story of the foster care system. As the father of two children, it is especially important to me that we ensure our nation’s children and youth have the opportunity to live in homes where they can grow up and reach their full potential.
Unfortunately, the broken foster care system is not equipped to properly take care of and place the hundreds of thousands needing help. We have the responsibility to look at our existing programs and systems to determine where improvements can be made so we can provide real help and solutions to those in need.
Last month, the House passed the Family First Prevention Services Act by a unanimous vote. As part of this bill, states would be able to provide family services assistance for biological and adoptive families to help keep families together. Learn more about this legislation, as well as what I am doing to help homeless youth, by clicking here.
While these are issues not easily solved overnight, I hope we can continue to look at the systems and policies to find common-sense solutions to better support children and youth facing tough circumstances. As always, if you have questions or comments about this or any other issue facing the federal government, I invite you to call my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 225-2015, Hilliard office at (614) 771-4968, Lancaster office at (740) 654-2654 or Wilmington office at (937) 283-7049.
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