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The MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) program provides formula grants each year to states, territories and approximately 135-145 tribes. The purpose of this program is to prevent child maltreatment…
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This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction on required actions for title IV-E agencies resulting from the enactment of the Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022. Metadata-only…
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The Children's Bureau re-issued the Guide to the NYTD Review (the Guide), previously issued in January 2017 in ACYF-CB-PI-17-01. The revisions to this document, while minor, offer clarifications that we hope will assist…
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This letter from the Children’s Bureau encourages agencies and courts to continue working together to ensure judicial hearings and reviews proceed and critical judicial oversight occurs in child welfare proceedings…
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The Kansas Intensive Permanency Project (KIPP) is part of the Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) cross-site and site-specific evaluation. The overview describes the evaluation stages and design to answer questions…
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The Children’s Bureau posts an annual FY summary of Form CB-496 expenditures and caseloads as reported by each title IV-E agency. These data tables include the combination of current-quarter and prior-quarter adjustment…
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The 1994 Amendments to the Social Security Act (the Act) authorize the Children's Bureau to review state child and family services programs to ensure compliance with the requirements in titles IV-B and IV-E of the Act.…
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This report provides state-specific data from fiscal year 2009 about the sex of children adopted through public agencies. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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This Information Memorandum (IM) is to remind state and tribal title IV-E agencies of the school enrollment and educational stability requirements for students in foster care included in the title IV-E and the…
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This joint statement by several legal organizations describes ways in which the court system can support families involved with child welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic, including ensuring access to due process and…
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This Federal Register notice provides the comments received regarding whether the Children’s Bureau should revise the regulations at 45 CFR 1357 because they contained outdated requirements and do not reflect statutory…
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This webinar described the CCWIS Design Requirements and preliminary work on the CCWIS Design Requirements and Self-Assessment Tool. It included a description of the "conformance indicators" and a "scoring methodology"…
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The Data Quality Utility performs comprehensive checks on AFCARS data to help title IV-E agencies assess and improve data quality. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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This state-only discussion, sponsored by the Child Welfare Technical Working Group (CWTWG) allowed child welfare information system project managers to air issues, questions, and concerns, and to develop a list of…
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This report to Congress provides national totals of planned spending by service category for the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services program and planned and actual spending by service category for the Promoting…
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This document provides a description of each statewide data indicator (SWDI) and data quality check for the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs), including the numerators, denominators, risk adjustments,…
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How Can Child Welfare Organizational Capacity Be Measured?: This brief reviews measures of child welfare organizational capacities found in the literature, including measures of resources, infrastructure, knowledge and…
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