Child Welfare and Foster Care Amendments of 1987

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Child Welfare and Foster Care Amendments of 1987 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Older Children in Foster Care Independent Living Program - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize States to continue foster care payments for children under age 21 who are participating in an independent living program but have exceeded the age limit (age 18 or, for full-time secondary school students, 19) for such payments. Authorizes States to include children who are in State-sponsored foster care but who are not eligible for title IV foster care payments in independent living programs. Extends, through FY 1989, Federal funding for independent living programs. (Currently, such funding runs through FY 1988.) Title II: Health Care Plans for Foster Care Children - Requires that the written case plan developed for foster care children include a health care plan setting forth health care services the child has received and is scheduled to receive. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and make available to States suggested standards of practice relating to the development, management, and implementation of child he…