The following resources are designed to help state-based advocates — including young people with experience in foster care — engage with their governors’ offices and child welfare agencies about implementation of Fostering the Future Accounts:

1. EXPLAINER: Fostering the Future Accounts
   This explainer provides background on how the Accounts work and key considerations for state implementation.

2. TEMPLATE: Letter to the Governor (Call to Action / From Youth)
   This template can be customized by youth to encourage state leaders to take action.

3. TEMPLATE: Letter to the Governor (Call to Action / From Advocates)
   This template can be customized by advocates to encourage state leaders to take action.

4. TEMPLATE: Letter to the Governor (Thank You / From Advocates)
   This template can be customized to send thanks to state leaders in states that have already pledged to implement Fostering the Future Accounts

5. CONTACT LIST: Governors' Staff

   This list provides the names and emails of key staff in Governors' offices with whom you may wish to correspond, and indicates which states have pledged to implement Accounts.

Why should advocates take this opportunity?

Fostering the Future Accounts offer states a significant new opportunity to help children and youth in foster care begin building assets for adulthood. With thoughtful implementation, the Accounts can serve as a catalyst for:

• long-term savings and financial security,

• stronger financial knowledge and skills,

• public and private investment in young people, and

• greater preparation for the transition to adulthood.

Click here for additional information and resources gathered by the Child Welfare Advocacy Hub on Fostering the Future Accounts.