NACAC has strong beliefs and positions on many key policies and practices in adoption and child welfare, as outlined in the position statements below.
We encourage advocates to use these statements in their efforts to improve outcomes for children and families.
In some cases, the statements reflect the belief that a given law, policy, or practice is not in the best interest of children. Regardless of our position on a particular law, however, NACAC complies with existing law at all times, and will continue to do so.
Click on the titles below to read the position statements on the following topics.
- Access to Records
- Access to Residential Treatment
- Access to Trauma-Informed Care
- Adoption Assistance
- Adoption Disruption and Dissolution
- Adoption/Guardianship Incentive Program
- Allegations of Abuse
- Best Interests of the Child or Youth
- Children’s and Youth’s Needs
- Data Collection
- Educational Needs of Children in Foster Care and Adoption
- Eliminating Categorical Restrictions
- Ethics in Adoption
- Fees in Adoption
- Financing of Child Welfare Programs and Services
- Gay and Lesbian Foster Care and Adoption
- Implementation of the Hague Convention
- Intercountry Adoptee Citizenship
- Kinship Care
- LGBTQ Children and Youth in Care
- Native and Aboriginal Children in Foster Care, Guardianship, and Adoption
- Open Adoption
- Orphanages
- Permanency for Older Youth
- Permanency Planning/Continuity of Relationships
- Post-Adoption Support
- Pre-Placement/Pre-Adoption Issues
- Privatization
- Race/Ethnic Background and Child Welfare
- Recruitment of Permanent Families
- Safe Havens
- Separation of Immigrant Families and Detention of Children
- Siblings in Foster Care and Adoption
- Subsidized Guardianship
- Support for Youth Aging Out of Care
- Tax Policy to Encourage Permanence for Foster Children and Youth