NACAC promotes and supports permanent families for children and youth in the U.S. and Canada who have been in care—especially those in foster care and those with special needs.
Our Work
To achieve this mission, NACAC focuses its program services in four areas: public policy advocacy, parent leadership capacity building, education and information sharing, and adoption support.
Thank You!
NACAC is grateful for
the support of our
major funders:
The Debra Steigerwaldt Waller Foundation
North American Council
on Adoptable Children ... because every child deserves a permanent, loving,
and culturally competent family
NACAC and other adoption organizations have banded together to form the Adoption Tax Credit Working Group, a collaboration dedicated to saving the adoption tax credit. If no action is taken in Congress, the adoption tax credit as we know it will end after 2012.
The annual NACAC conference will be held in Crystal City, Virginia (just outside Washington, D.C.) on July 25 to 28. We hope that you can attend, and that you will help us get the word out to other members of the child welfare community. If you are part of an adoption network, please help us share information about this valuable event.
NACAC and Jockey Being Family®
Launch Adoption Advocacy Toolbox
Access the Federal
Adoption Tax Credit
With funding from Jockey Being Family, NACAC has created a new online resource for adoption advocates in the U.S. and Canada. The site contains information about how to advocate for adoption, strategies for advocacy efforts, a guide to post-adoption advocacy, and resources and links related to numerous special topics in adoption (adolescent permanency, education/school issues, FASD, kinship, openness, and much more.
The health care reform bill made the U.S. federal adoption tax credit refundable for 2010 and 2011. Credits carried forward from previous years will also be refundable, so families who adopted as far back as 2005 but who didn't have enough tax liability to use the credit before may be able to take advantage of the credit.
Many families are experiencing delays in processing their adoption tax credits. NACAC cannot help speed the process, but we can help if you feel that you were improperly denied. Please e-mail us at taxcredit@nacac.org.
HHS Releases Latest
AFCARS Data
NACAC Approves Position Statement on Permanency
for Older Youth
In June 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) releases data on foster care from fiscal year 2010. The data show that more than 107,000 children were waiting to adopted, while more than 52,000 exited care to adoption.
At its August 2011 meeting, the NACAC board of directors approved a position statement that outlines the organization's belief in permanency for all older children and youth and identifies policies and practices that can help such permanence.
North American
Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
970 Raymond Avenue, Suite 106
St. Paul, MN 55114
phone: 651-644-3036
fax: 651-644-9848
e-mail: info@nacac.org Feedback
