S. 5096 — Support for Expectant and Parenting Foster Youth Act

This section expands the purposes of the John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood to connect foster youth in eligible families (as defined in section 511(l)) with evidence-based home visiting and support services under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. It also requires states applying for program funds to certify that they have processes in place to provide participating youth in eligible families with information about those services.

This section permits states to use Chafee Foster Care Program funds to provide tailored case management and resource coordination services to expectant or parenting youth otherwise eligible for services under the program, or to use the funds in any other manner reasonably calculated to accomplish the program's purposes of supporting youth who have experienced foster care at age 14 or older.

This section delays the effective date of the amendments made by this Act until one year after the date of enactment. It applies those amendments only to payments under section 477 of the Social Security Act (the John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood) for plans approved on or after that date.