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There are 513,000 kids living in foster care across America.
Now young people are banding together to make a difference for their peers who have suffered abuse, neglect, or abandonment.

People are thinking about ways the foster care system in America can be improved. One way would be to change the rules about how your state can spend federal money on kids in foster care. One thing we know for sure: your voice is needed to make people listen. Your story could change the way people look at the foster care system — and the kids in it. Band Together with the Kids Are Waiting campaign!

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Call your Senator today about the Children's Budget Act

Please help get cosponsors for the "Children's Budget Act"... call your Senator today!

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HB10-1059: Gagliardi Bill Helping Foster Kids Get Driver’s Licenses Passes Final House Vote

Statebillnews, February 8, 2010, Denver –- Representative Sara Gagliardi’s (D-Arvada) bill to help foster kids get a driver’s license easier, successfully passed a final reading in the House today 63-0, with 2 excused.

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ADVOCACY ALERT: The Every Child Deserves a Family Act (H.R. 3827)

Please take a few minutes today to call your Representatives and educate their staff on the legislation introduced by Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA).

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Charlie Crist today signed legislation that benefits children in foster care

May 14, 2009, FORT LAUDERDALE – Governor Charlie Crist today signed legislation that benefits children in foster care as well as young people leaving foster care. Senate Bill 126 provides children in foster care better access to their own personal records often needed for medical and educational purposes.

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New Illinois Law Allows Foster Youth to Reenter Care

Chapin Hall, Springfield, IL -- On August 25, Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn signed into law the Foster Child Successful Transition to Adulthood Act, which will allow young people who leave foster care before the

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