WashingtonWatch.com - Subject: Family services

P.L. 110-351, The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 - Cost per Average Family: $3.75

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 6893 would amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption....

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H.R. 7127, The Total Learning Curriculum Implementation Act

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 7127 would authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to implement the Total Learning curriculum....

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S. 3492, The Resource Family Recruitment and Retention Act of 2008

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3492 would amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to ensure States follow best policies and practices for supporting and retaining foster parents and to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States to improve the empowerment, leadership, support, training, recruitment, and retention of foster care, kinship care, and adoptive parents....

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H.R. 840, The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $29.60

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 840 would amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to consolidate the housing assistance programs for homeless persons under title IV of such Act....

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S. 3397, The First Responders Support Act of 2008

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3397 would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide adequate benefits for public safety officers injured or killed in the line of duty....

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H.R. 6445, To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from collecting certain copayments from veterans who are catastrophically disabled - Cost per Average Family: $9.01

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6445 would amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from collecting certain copayments from veterans who are catastrophically disabled....

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H.R. 6617, The Strengthening Communities Through Education and Integration Act of 2008

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6617 would strengthen communities through English literacy, civics, education, and immigrant integration programs....

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S. 3334, The Strengthening Communities Through Education and Integration Act of 2008

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3334 would strengthen communities through English literacy, civic education, and immigrant integration programs....

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H.R. 2192, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish an Ombudsman within the Department of Veterans Affairs - Cost per Average Family: $0.03

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 2192 would amend title 38, United States Code, to establish an Ombudsman within the Department of Veterans Affairs....

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H.R. 2343, The Education Begins at Home Act - Cost per Average Family: $7.01

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 2343 would expand quality programs of early childhood home visitation that increase school readiness, child abuse and neglect prevention, and early identification of developmental and health delays, including potential mental health concerns....

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H.R. 6307, The Fostering Connections to Success Act

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6307 would amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to assist children in foster care in developing or maintaining connections to family, community, support, health care, and school....

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H.R. 6268, The HONOR Warriors Act

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6268 would improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and it would enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans....

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H.R. 6215, The Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6215 would amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program....

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H.R. 6141, The Elder Serve Act of 2008

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6141 would establish pilot programs that provide for emergency crisis response teams to combat elder abuse....

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S. 3008, The HONOR Warriors Act

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3008 would improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and it would enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans....

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S. 2963, A bill to improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, to enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2963 would improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and it would enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans....

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S. 2900, The Partnership for Children and Families Act

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2900 would provide States with the incentives, flexibility and resources to develop child welfare services that focus on improving circumstances for children, whether in foster care or in their own homes....

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H.R. 5785, The Homefront Heroes Helping Frontline Families Tax Relief Act of 2008

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5785 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for providing volunteer service to military families through the America Supports You program of the Department of Defense....

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P.L. 110-374, The Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act - Cost per Average Family: $0.18

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1810 would amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the provision of scientifically sound information and support services to patients receiving a positive test diagnosis for Down syndrome or other prenatally and postnatally diagnosed conditions....

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H.R. 1198, The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $1.68

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 1198 would amend the Public Health Service Act regarding early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss....

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P.L. 110-387, The Mental Health Improvements Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $8.23

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2162 would improve the treatment and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders....

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S. 2796, A bill to require a pilot program on the use of community-based organizations to ensure that veterans receive the care and benefits they need, and for other purposes

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2796 would require a pilot program on the use of community-based organizations to ensure that veterans receive the care and benefits they need....

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H.R. 5654, To authorize a program to provide grants to youth-serving organizations that carry out child-parent visitation programs for children with incarcerated parents

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5654 would authorize a program to provide grants to youth-serving organizations that carry out child-parent visitation programs for children with incarcerated parents....

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H.R. 1538, The Wounded Warrior Assistance Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $49.14

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 1538 would amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the management of medical care, personnel actions, and quality of life issues for members of the Armed Forces who are receiving medical care in an outpatient status....

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H.R. 5563, The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5563 would reauthorize and reform the national service laws....

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