Volume 19

Fostering Results Releases New National Report on Subsidizing Guardianship

According to a new report issued by Fostering Results, children adrift in long term foster care can find safety, permanence and security with grandparents and other caregivers. The report provides an unprecedented perspective on the value of subsidized legal guardianship for the nearly 19,250 children in long term relative foster care in the U.S. in “permanency limbo” – children that courts have determined cannot return safely home and for each of whom adoption has been determined not to be a viable option.

Fostering Results is a national, nonpartisan project supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Children and Family Research Center at the School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project is dedicated to raising awareness of issuing facing children in foster care.

Fostering Results invites you to attend the release of this national, first-of-its-kind study

Please join them:
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The Capitol, LBJ Room, S-211 Washington, D.C.

Participants will include:

Mark Testa
Co-Director, Fostering Results
Director of the Children and Family Research Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Judge Nancy S. Salyers
Co-Director, Fostering Results
Former Presiding Judge of the Cook County Juvenile Court, Child Protection Division

Katie Sutton
Grandmother and legal guardian, Philadelphia, PA

RSVP: Space is limited. Please RSVP to Linda Lenzini, 217-415-9514, fosteringresultscommunications@msn.com or Gina Russo 202-687-0697 mediaiq@comcast.net