Downloadable PDF Version: Open Letter: On HB584 – Against the Abrogation of the Rights of Children in Foster Care Saturday, April 18, 2026 The Honorable Delisha Boyd Louisiana House of Representatives 3401 General De Gaulle Drive Suite 5076 New Orleans, LA 70114 The Honorable Regina Barrow President Pro Tempore Louisiana Senate 4811 Harding Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70811 Members of…
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The number of Louisiana children in foster care is on the rise. Following a remarkable three-year decline in the number of Louisiana children in foster care from August 2018 to August 2021, the number of children in Louisiana’s foster care system has returned to numbers that were normal ten years ago. Following a significant decline from Fall 2018 to Summer…
Recently, class actions to protect children in foster care have been filed against several state child welfare agencies on behalf of children in foster care. These stories report allegations about child welfare agencies not meeting the essential needs of children in foster care. Louisiana: Louisiana the Latest State to Be Sued over Foster Care Issues San Bernardino: Legal Fees to…
While reading this morning’s news reports about child welfare among the states, the following struggles seem to be the most significant and common problems of child welfare agencies around the country. 1. First is the problem of children being removed from parents and placed into foster care for reasons of neglect because removal is a state child welfare system’s obvious…
Child welfare professionals were delighted in 2013 when the Congressional Budget Office reported the number of children in foster care had been on a 10-year decline. The CBO published a report about foster care, adoption and kinship care which looked at the past and predicted the future. Based on the past and hopeful about the next decade, the CBO report…
Until the proper care of Louisiana’s children in foster care becomes a priority in Baton Rouge, children in our state’s foster care system will continue to be among the most under-supported in the nation. If you consider how children in foster care are indirectly used by politicians in state budget arguments, you will see they do indeed have political value.…
Longer foster care stays increase the risk of continued placement. According to a recently released national survey from the Administration for Children and Families, after children spend 12 to 18 continuous months in foster care, their chances of leaving foster care decrease rapidly. Once children spend 36 to 42 continuous months in foster care, their chances of leaving foster care…