Requires states to build family partnership plans for recruiting, licensing, supporting, and keeping foster and adoptive families, with yearly data reporting on family capacity and congregate care use.

• Requires each state's plan to be developed with birth, kinship, foster, and adoptive families, service providers, and youth with foster care experience, and to identify and support relatives as placement options.
• Requires states to report at least annually on licensed foster family capacity, unused homes and the reasons for them, and children placed in congregate care in and out of state.
• Requires states to report on barriers to recruiting families that reflect the racial and ethnic background of children in foster care, and adds state-by-state foster and adoptive family data to the annual child welfare outcomes report to Congress starting fiscal year 2028.
• Sets the state plan requirements to take effect October 1, 2027, with a delay for states that need legislation to comply.

• Finance Committee (Senate)

Families