Research Report Intentions and Results: A Look Back at the Adoption and Safe Families Act
Olivia Golden, Jennifer Ehrle Macomber, Additional Authors
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The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), signed into law on November 19, 1997, was the most significant piece of legislation dealing with child welfare in almost twenty years. The ambitious new law aimed to reaffirm the focus on child safety in case decision making and to ensure that children did not grow up in foster care but instead were connected with permanent families. Twelve years after the law was enacted, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) in partnership with the Urban Institute co-sponsored this series of papers to examine effects of the ASFA law and its implementation.
Research Areas Children and youth Immigration Child welfare
Tags Child welfare