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

2. The establishment of Black churches, Black barber shops, Black beauty salons, HBCU campuses, and Black nail shops as Safe Havens.

3. Support and promote kinship placements.

4. Black children under 21 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 from the Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Antilles, etc.

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.

9. Creation of community initiatives to support Black teen parents, single fathers, housing, employment, education, substance usage treatment, and vocational services to ensure Black families can stay intact.