St. Louis Metropolitan Children’s Agenda
November 2005

Family Support Strategies

• Expand use of home visitation to screen for child abuse and neglect. Improve quality of home visitation programs by implementing the quality standards that have been developed through the St. Louis Children’s Agenda.
  Lead Agency: Family Support Network
  
• Increase the number of foster care and adoptive homes for children in need.  
  Lead Agency: Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition