Childhood Outcomes Need New Efficient Community Teams or the CONNECT Act

This bill amends title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to state child welfare and juvenile justice agencies to:

• collaborate in the collection of data relating to dual status youth (who come into contact with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and occupy various statuses in their relationship to those systems); and
• develop practices, policies, and protocols to confront the challenges presented and experienced by such youth.