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Official title: Home for Every Child Initiative (Executive Session)
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March 23, 2026
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextOn another matter, Mr. President, in my years in the U.S. Senate, I have been a person very interested in the foster care system serving the young people. So I would like to recognize a meaningful initiative that the Administration for Children and Families, or ACF, launched called A Home for Every Child.
ACF's A Home for Every Child initiative “sets an ambitious goal of achieving a foster home-to-child ratio greater than one-to-one in every state.” I applaud this very ambitious goal.
retention efforts because kids in foster care deserve qualified, well- trained, and loving parents.
Home for Every Child initiative by enabling State child welfare agencies to
integrate best practices along with quality data. This will help ensure that foster youths and parents are best supported.
When referring to raising a child, a common phrase is used: It takes a village. That phrase rings more true when a child experiences foster care.
for her work to modernize the child welfare system. It will strengthen partnerships for youth aging out of foster care through the program entitled Fostering the Future for American Children and Families initiative.
on his commitment to tackle the foster recruitment and retention challenge that is tainting child welfare agencies nationwide.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.