{"id":31021,"date":"2012-12-06T00:52:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caseyfamilyv2.wpengine.com\/better-support-means-better-outcomes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:05:28","slug":"un-mejor-apoyo-significa-mejores-resultados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/es\/better-support-means-better-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Un mejor apoyo significa mejores resultados: William C. Bell habla ante una subcomisi\u00f3n del Congreso sobre la mejora del sistema de acogida temporal."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Casey Family Programs President and CEO William C. Bell testifies at a Congressional subcommittee on improving foster care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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We must put in place policies rooted in permanency and reinforced by adequate funding, training, and essential supports for children and youth in care.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

— Dr. William C. Bell, President and CEO<\/cite><\/figcaption>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n
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Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to share Casey Family Programs\u2019 perspective on how to improve child protective services, and on reauthorizing the Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) program.<\/p>\n

I am William C. Bell, president and chief executive officer of Casey Family Programs, the nation\u2019s largest operating foundation serving the needs of children in foster care for over 40 years.<\/p>\n

Before sharing some experiences and recommendations, I want to take the opportunity to commend the Subcommittee on Human Resources for the leadership you have shown over the years in the broad areas of child welfare, child protection, foster care and adoption assistance.<\/p>\n

As we move toward a more comprehensive and targeted approach to helping foster youth transition to adult success, I ask each of you to continue the focused and passionate leadership that results in improvements across jurisdictions for foster children in the areas of mental health, education and employment, with the ultimate outcome of significantly reducing the number of children in America\u2019s foster care system.<\/p>\n

Without your continued leadership on a policy level, without your voice on behalf of these children, our ability to significantly alter this nation\u2019s child welfare landscape \u2014 for the good of abused and neglected children \u2014 will be hindered.<\/p>\n

In the past 40 years, Casey Family Programs focused its efforts and funding on permanency and transition issues to help prepare children for long-term success.<\/p>\n

That emphasis continues, but with a much sharper focus. Casey Family Programs is now marshaling our investments, our staff and our collective expertise on a strategy we call \u201c2020.\u201d Simply put, 2020 is both a point in time \u2014 15 years from now \u2014 and a benchmark from which this nation can measure significant changes and progress within our child welfare system and our communities.<\/p>\n

We also see the 2020 benchmark as a critically important reminder to us of the consequences we face as a nation if nothing changes over the next 15 years for our most vulnerable children.<\/p>\n

Consider the following. If nothing changes in our child welfare system between the years of 2006 and 2020:<\/p>\n