Foster care: childcare

The law creates a direct route from childcare-navigation services to county review for time-limited childcare help, helping eligible foster children and families access the existing Emergency Child Care Bridge Program.

What the law does ​

• Authorizes childcare navigators to refer foster children to a county welfare department for eligibility and approval under the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children.
• Requires participating county welfare departments to determine eligibility for every child referred by a childcare navigator.

Who it affects ​

• Foster children referred by childcare navigators.
• Resource, kinship, tribal, emergency-placement, and parenting foster-care families seeking childcare support.
• Participating county welfare departments and childcare resource and referral programs.