Healthy Foster Care America

Healthy Foster Care America is a nonprofit organization, representing approximately 60,000 pediatricians dedicated to achieving the optimal physical, mental, and social health of all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The AAP believes that children must have access to high-quality, cost-effective pediatric health services provided through a medical home.


At any given time, the AAP is working on a multitude of critical child health issues. Of these issues, the AAP Board of Directors selects a few as strategic priorities that are national in scope and can make a significant, measurable contribution to the AAP mission. In 2006, foster care was added to the strategic plan as a priority. Soon thereafter, the Task Force on Foster Care was created.


Visit Healthy Foster Care America at http://www.aap.org/fostercare/index.html for additional resources and information.

Last updated: April 19th, 2012