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Youth in foster care face obstacles in participating in enrichment activities that their peers often do not. However, it is important for youth in foster care to have the same opportunities to participate in healthy and appropriate activities, such as sports, extracurricular interests and attending school functions as their friends and classmates who are not in foster care.

CSSP’s newest brief, Promoting Well-Being through the Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard: A Guide for States Implementing the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (H.R. 4980), highlights the important role that states play in supporting the healthy development and well-being of youth in foster care. The brief provides policymakers and child welfare administrators with recommendations and successful state examples for implementing the prudent parenting standard in a way that promotes well-being for all youth in foster care and provides additional guidance for expectant and parenting youth and youth that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning (LGBTQ).

To read CSSP’s policy recommendations, click here.