First Focus is committed to the long-term goal of substantially reducing the number of children entering foster care, while working to ensure that our existing system of care protects children and adequately meets the needs of families in the child welfare system. Specifically, First Focus is working to ensure that promising prevention efforts, including nurse-family visitation programs, are adequately funded and broadly replicated. In addition, First Focus is engaging in efforts to improve access to substance use and mental health treatment for parents and children, expand kinship care and subsidized guardianship, improve services and continuity in care for teens aging-out of the child welfare system, and promote comprehensive reforms to the existing federal child welfare financing structure.
