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This bill aims to improve foster and adoptive parent recruitment and retention by amending parts B and E of Title IV of the Social Security Act. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring states to develop a "family partnership plan" that outlines how they will identify, recruit, screen, license, support, and retain foster and adoptive families, including through the use of data to set goals, assess needs, and measure progress. 2. Requiring states to collect and report annually on their foster family capacity, including the number and characteristics of licensed foster families, the number of families not receiving placements, and the use of congregate care. 3. Requiring states to gather and report annually on feedback from foster and adoptive parents and youth on the licensure process, training, support, and reasons why parents stop fostering or adoptive/guardianship placements fail. 4. Requiring states to analyze and report annually on challenges and barriers to recruiting families that reflect the racial and ethnic background of children in foster care, and efforts to overcome those challenges. 5. Requiring the annual child welfare outcomes report to Congress to include state-level data on the number and characteristics of foster and adoptive families, as well as summaries of the challenges and barriers faced by these families.

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