The Black Diaspora Family Preservation and Cultural Continuity Act 

Purpose: This proposed legislation seeks to promote, uphold, and strengthen Black families, preserve cultural identity, hinder the exploitation of displaced children, and improve permanency outcomes for Black children in foster care.

Policy Goals:

1. Early legal representation for parents and documented, reviewable efforts to preserve the family and place with kin.

2. Increased recruitment efforts of Black families to adopt Black and Black Biracial children.

3. The establishment of Black places of worship, Black barber shops, Black beauty salons, HBCU campuses, and Black nail shops as Safe Havens.

4. Transracial and all other adoptees under 21 years old are not to be filmed, promoted, modeled, and/or trafficked for influencer and monetization purposes.

5. Support kinship placements with increased efforts to locate biological family members.

6. Imposing strict limits and qualifications on the adoption of children from the African Diaspora, the Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Antilles, etc. to the United States.

7. Education and advocacy for mothers who seek an adoptive resource for their children to first seek a resource within their extended family.

8. Increasing support services for historically marginalized communities to reduce unnecessary family separation while ensuring that poverty-related conditions are not considered as neglect.

9. Services that promote prevention before removal by the creation of community initiatives to support teen parents, families with multiple minor children, single fathers, housing, employment, education, substance use treatment, mental health treatment, the prevention of incarceration, and vocational services to ensure Black families can stay intact.