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2016 & Beyond
November 2011 Over the past 15 years CCAI has made
CCAI’s The Way Forward Project great strides. These highlights are just
culminated in a Summit on Family the tip of the iceberg. Together, with
Care with U.S. Secretary of State advocates and families from across the
Hillary Clinton. Over two years, the country, we will continue to engage
project convened 45 international and educate Members of Congress to
family care experts in both the promote adoption and the importance
U.S. and Ethiopia to provide of family in the years to come.
recommendations on family care
policy, practice and funding in
the published The Way Forward
Project Report. 2016
& BEYOND
2014
2013

2011
2010
March 2014
2008 May 2013 CCAI convened 145
CCAI hosted 13 Guatemalan adoption advocacy
May 2010 judicial and child welfare organizations nationwide
In response to the earthquake that leaders on a three-city into a working group
devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and professional development in support of adoption
left Haiti’s child welfare system in a tour in the U.S. to share affordability and the
state of emergency, CCAI convened best practices in policy and adoption tax credit and
Haitian, U.S. and international experts programming on family care serves as secretariat.
to collaborate on how to best rebuild for Guatemala’s children.
Haiti’s child welfare infrastructure. July 2014
The Foster Youth Interns
November 2010 brief the White House
CCAI celebrated its first Domestic Policy Council
National Adoption Day with on their federal policy
major sports team, the NFL’s recommendations to
New Orleans Saints. reform domestic foster
care for the first time.