Nevada Cash For Kids
“Nevada has been awarded a nearly $1 million federal grant for its efforts to increase the number of children adopted from foster care.
State officials say the funds announced Tuesday will be used to improve child welfare programs.
This year’s award of $995,000 is based on 652 adoptions statewide that were finalized in the federal fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2010.
States receive $4,000 for every child adopted beyond their best year’s total, plus $8,000 for every child age 9 and older and $4,000 for every special needs child adopted above the baseline.
Last year, Nevada’s grant totaled $467,665.”
[8 News Now 9/27/11 by Associated Press]
Adoption incentive payments are part of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997., Title II, Section 201. See here.
What is missing are checks and balances for whether these kids really needed permanent new homes and whether or not the foster or adoptive parents are truly prepared to handle these children.
As we discussed in March 2011, Nevada takes away children at a rate 60 percent above the national average. In Clark County, the removal is 35 percent above the national average. This is due to poverty mostly.
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