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Rep. Bass and Rep. Bachmann talk new bipartisan initiative for foster youth

A National Foster Care Movement

In the years that I have spent chronicling the national movement to improve foster care, I have borne witness to the quiet, consistent progress achieved by a constellation of policy makers, foster youth, practitioners, academics, and advocates fully dedicated to bettering the lives of vulnerable children.

Democrat Karen Bass and Republican Michele Bachmann come together on foster care

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican find an issue they can agree on. That issue? Improving the foster care system.

Representative Karen Bass; Senator Mary Landrieu lead foster care mentoring initiative

With the United States Capitol as a backdrop, Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, and Representative Karen Bass, Democrat of California, last Thursday held a joint press conference highlighting the Foster Care Mentoring Act.