Petition: Fix Arizona's Broken Foster Care

Director of AZ Child Safety Greg McKay

Foster care is no place to spend a childhood. Foster care should be temporary. 

  1. Children should not stay in foster care for years. 
  2. Children should not be returned over and over to abusive, unsafe homes.
  3. Children deserve to grow up in safe, stable families.

Children should not feel as if their lives are in limbo, waiting for a permanent, stable family. 

Ask Arizona Child Safety Director Greg McKay to listen to those who work with foster children every day. The children in Arizona foster care need help today. We cannot wait while these children lose their childhoods to bureaucratic failures.

Please, sign now demanding reforms that will help children move into safe, stable families faster.

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Foster Children's Rights Coalition
Phoenix, AZ

To: Director of AZ Child Safety Greg McKay
From: [Your Name]

Together, with professionals who work with foster children every day, Foster Children’s Rights Coalition developed a 10-point reform plan for transforming foster care in Arizona. This plan is supported by 120 pages of documentation that contains more than 350 specific recommendations. This plan was developed by a coalition of behavioral health providers, lawyers, foster parents, social workers, CASAs, and other child advocates and experts who work with foster children every day.

We ask that you support this comprehensive plan to make foster care a safer, more nurturing environment:

(1) Establish compliance with the law.
(2) Create transparency and accountability.
(3) Give foster youth turning 18 opportunities to succeed.
(4) Reduce institutionalized care.
(5) Get children into safe, permanent families more quickly.
(6) Appropriately assess and disclose potential risks.
(7) Overhaul mental health care.
(8) Establish educational advocacy for foster children.
(9) Strengthen collaboration with stakeholders.
(10) Establish a quality assurance team that reports to the governor.

This is a key moment. As the new leader of child safety in Arizona, we ask you to bring accountability to your department, and we ask that you hold other state agencies and private contractors accountable who serve and support the children in Arizona foster care.