Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) Law and Legal Definition
Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was signed into law on November 1997. ASFA was enacted in an attempt to correct problems that critics claimed were inherent in the foster care system that deterred the adoption of children with special needs. The Act was designed to improve the safety of children, to promote adoption and other permanent homes for children who need them and to support families. The law requires Child Protective Services (CPS) to provide more timely and focused assessment and intervention services to the children and families that are served within the CPS system. The biggest change to the law was how ASFA amended Title IV-E of the Social Security Act regarding funding.
Legal Definition list
- Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)
- Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS)
- Adoption
- Adopted Decision [Immigration]
- Adopted Child
- Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
- Adoption Disruption
- Adoption Dissolution
- Adoption Facilitator
- Adoption Loss
- Adoption of [Other Party’s] Motions
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