; Whereas children who age out of foster care lack the security or support of a biological or adoptive family and frequently struggle to secure affordable housing, obtain health insurance, pursue higher education, and acquire adequate employment; Whereas, on average, 8.5 percent of the positions in child protection services remain vacant; Whereas, due to heavy caseloads and limited resources, the average tenure for a worker in child protection services is just 3 years; Whereas States, localities, and communities should be encouraged to invest resources in preventative and reunification services and postpermanency programs to ensure that more children in foster care are provided with safe, loving, and permanent placements; Whereas, in 2018, Congress passed the Family First Prevention Services Act ( Public Law 115–123 ; 132 Stat. 232), which provided new investments in prevention, early intervention, and family reunification services to help more families stay together, provided support for kinship (relative) caregivers, and provided improved and more flexible services to older youth aging out of foster care, to ensure that more children can be in safe, loving, and permanent homes; Whereas Federal legislation over the past 3 decades, including the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 ( Public Law 96–272 ), the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 ( Public Law 105–89 ), the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 ( Public Law 110–351 ), the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act ( Public Law 112–34 ), and the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act ( Public Law 113–183 ), provided new investments and services to improve the outcomes of children in the foster care system