The National Foster Parent Association is pleased to present the 2019 Tax Benefits for Foster, Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers. This resource guide provides you with valuable information worth several thousand dollars or more in tax benefits.

The guide explains basic rules and offers tips on ways that foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers can claim deductions and credits available to them. Neither the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique tax rules that affect these families. As a result, obscure and complicated tax rules cause some families, and even some commercial tax preparers, to overlook or miss deductions and tax credits.

This information should not be considered legal advice or tax advice – it is general information that should not be acted upon except in consultation with a professional tax adviser. Give a copy of this guide to your tax preparer, and discuss the qualifications for any of the benefits discussed here.

The Federal Tax Benefits for Foster, Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers resource guide provides you with valuable information worth several thousand dollars or more in tax benefits.

This guide is only available to Individual and Friends of NFPA members (join NFPA now!): 

Federal Tax Benefits for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Caregiver - 2019 Tax Year

June 18 -21, 2020 | Reston, Virginia

The National Foster Parent Association will celebrate our 50^th annual education conference in 2020. The NFPA is committed to bringing relevant quality learning opportunities to all caregivers in the foster care system as well as to staff, and other professionals, who work with these families and the children they serve. Celebrate with us, embrace new partners, and new approaches!

Held at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA, this conference will feature developmental learning sessions geared to improving the everyday lives of the children and youth in care and their families - birth, kinship, foster, and adoptive. 

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Centene and The National Foster Parent Association announced today a partnership to bring online training to foster caregivers nationwide via the NFPA’s Online Training Institute. Centene will provide the online platform and facilitators, and the NFPA will provide the educational material and instructors. The trainings will address a variety of topics such as the role foster caregivers play in mentoring birth parents and internet safety.

Combining our child welfare expertise will allow us to disseminate training to foster caregivers more broadly, which will further support and empower them in providing the best possible care to our children and youth.”Centene and the NFPA will also collaborate to create new curriculums and trainings that will give foster parents quick and easy access to education that addresses targeted issues they commonly encounter.

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