Michigan House Adoption & Foster Care Task Force
The House Adoption and Foster Care Task Force held a series of virtual meetings over several months where people from all corners of Michigan’s child welfare system were able to share their experiences and provide guidance on how to best improve outcomes for all involved. The bipartisan panel also collected numerous written comments to consider when crafting recommendations to help bring an end to Michigan’s consent decree, achieve timely permanency, remove obstacles and disincentives preventing new families from supporting foster youth, increase adoptions, bolster kinship care, expand access to services, improve caseworker retention, enhance systemic legal representation, and much more.