The Performance Dashboard (formerly Performance Outcomes System) datasets are developed in line with legislative mandates to improve outcomes and inform decision making regarding individuals receiving Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services (SMHS). The Dashboard gathers information relevant to specific mental health outcomes and provides useful summary reports for ongoing quality improvement and to support decision making. Please note: the Excel file Performance Dashboard has been discontinued and replaced with the SMHS Performance Dashboards found on Behavioral Health Reporting (ca.gov).

The state of California has two Permanency Innovation Initiative (PII) grantees; they operate the California Partners for Permanency (CAPP) and Recognize. Intervene. Support. Empower (RISE) projects. These presentation provides an overview of their strategies to reduce the number of children and youth in long-term foster care.

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Number of children under age 21 in foster care as of July 1 of each year, by age group. This is a point-in-time, unduplicated count of children under the supervision of county welfare departments and excludes cases under the supervision of county probation departments, out-of-state agencies, state adoptions district offices, and Indian child welfare departments. The total by age group may not add up to total number of children in foster care due to missing values. U.S. totals reflect children in foster care as of Sept. 30 each year. N/A means that data are not available. Note: Although U.S. data are not available for children ages 1-2 and 3-5, data for children ages 1-5, combined, is available on KIDS COUNT. Data Source: Needell, B., et al. (May 2014). Child Welfare Services Reports for California, U.C. Berkeley Center for Social Services Research; U.S. data come from Child Trends analysis of Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System data available through the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, as cited on KIDS COUNT (May 2014). Retrieved on May 31, 2015.

This report describes the results of the subsequent primary review of California’s Title IV-E foster care program.

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Number of first entries into foster care for children under age 18. Rates represent a three-year average of data. First entries into foster care are unduplicated counts of children under the supervision of county welfare departments and exclude cases under the supervision of county probation departments, out-of-state agencies, state adoptions district offices, and Indian child welfare departments. For rates, LNE (Low Number Event) refers to data that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 20 first entries. N/A means that data are not available. Needell, B., et al. (May 2014). Child Welfare Services Reports for California, U.C. Berkeley Center for Social Services Research; U.S. data come from Child Trends analysis of Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System data available through the National Data Archive on Child Abuse & Neglect, as cited on KIDS COUNT (May 2014). Retrieved May 31, 2015.

This dataset contains all former foster youth enrolled in Medi-Cal. The Medi-Cal Former Foster Youth (FFY) program provides full scope Medi-Cal to individuals up to the age of 26 who were in foster care at age 18 or older.

Since October 1, 2010, title IV-E agencies have the option to provide extended foster care up to age 21. The state of California was an early adopter of this option and also funded the collection of data, research, and an evaluation to understand the implementation and outcomes.

Learn how the state of California has designed and implemented an extended foster care program that improves the lives of young people in transition from foster care.

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The Foster Care Program helps states and participating territories and Tribes to provide safe and stable out-of- home care for eligible children and youth until they are safely returned home, placed permanently with adoptive families or legal guardians, or placed in other planned arrangements for permanency. It also provides funding for allowable pre-placement administrative activities for eligible children determined to be at imminent risk of removal who, absent effective provision of preventive services, would be placed in foster care. The program is annually appropriated and funding is awarded as an open-ended entitlement grant. The Title IV-E agency must submit quarterly reports of estimated and actual program expenditures. Funding is contingent upon an approved title IV-E plan to administer or supervise the administration of the program. The program operates in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Tribes with approved title IV-E plans.

Title IV-E agencies may elect to offer foster care to eligible young people up to the age of 21. Participating young people must be completing secondary education, attending post-secondary education, working at least 80 hours per month, participating in certain pre-employment activities, or have a medical condition that prevents them from participating in education or work activities. The following states been approved to operate a foster care program serving young people over age 18: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

For maintenance payments, the Foster Care Program provides federal matching funds at the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), which ranges from 50 to 83 percent, depending on the state's or Tribe’s per capita income. Matching funds are provided based on the expenditures made on behalf of children determined eligible for the program who are placed in a family foster home or child care institution (CCI) that meets applicable licensure and safety related requirements. As amended by the Family First Prevention Services Act, the law authorizes up to 12 months of foster care payments for a child placed with a parent residing in a licensed residential family-based treatment facility for substance abuse. The law also places time limits on the ability to claim foster care maintenance payments for children placed in certain CCI’s.

Administrative costs are matched at 50 percent and include costs such as eligibility determinations, case management for children in foster care, development and operation of automated information systems, and independent legal representation. There is a 75 percent match for allowable training for title IV-E agency employees, persons preparing for employment by the title IV-E agency, foster parents, private child welfare agency staff providing services to children receiving title IV-E assistance, child abuse and neglect court personnel, guardians ad litem, court appointed special advocates, and attorneys for an agency, child, or the child’s parent.

In addition, $3 million annually is reserved for technical assistance and plan development/ implementation grants to eligible Tribes.

FY 2022: $5,830,000,000

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Percentage of first entries into foster care for children under age 18, by type of out-of-home placement (e.g., 25.3% of children entering foster care for the first time in California in 2011-13 were placed with relatives). First entries into foster care are unduplicated counts of children under the supervision of county welfare departments and exclude cases under the supervision of county probation departments, out-of-state agencies, state adoptions district offices, and Indian child welfare departments. Counts are based on the first out-of-home placement of eight days or more, even if it was not the first actual placement. A 'Foster Family Agency Home' is overseen by licensed non-profit agencies, whereas 'Foster Homes' are licensed directly by a county. For more on Foster Family Agencies, see http://www.childsworld.ca.gov/PG1346.htm. A 'Court-Specified Home' can be of any type, but is mandated by the court. 'Other' includes medical facilities, tribe-specified homes, and pre-adoptive care. LNE (Low Number Event) refers to data that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 160 total children with first entries. N/A means that data are not available. The sum of all placement type percentages may not add up to 100% due to missing values. Data Source: Needell, B., et al. (May 2014). Child Welfare Services Reports for California, U.C. Berkeley Center for Social Services Research. Retrieved on May 31, 2015.

Percentage of first entries into foster care for children under age 18, by removal reason (e.g., 8.5% of children entering foster care for the first time in California in 2011-2013 were removed from their families due to physical abuse). First entries into foster care are unduplicated counts of children under the supervision of county welfare departments and exclude cases under the supervision of county probation departments, out-of-state agencies, state adoptions district offices, and Indian child welfare departments. Counts are based on the first out-of-home placement of eight days or more, even if it was not the first actual placement. 'Other' includes removals due to exploitation, child’s disability or handicap, and other reasons. LNE (Low Number Event) refers to data that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 80 total children with first entries. N/A means that data are not available. The sum of all reasons for removal percentages may not add up to 100% due to missing values. Data Source: Needell, B., et al. (May 2014). Child Welfare Services Reports for California, U.C. Berkeley Center for Social Services Research. Retrieved on May 31, 2015.

This webpage includes the documentation from California's Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2014:

AFCARS Assessment Review Letter

AFCARS Assessment Review Report

Tab A - Detailed Findings

Findings Instructions

Section I

AFCARS Assessment Review Findings - General Requirements

Section II

AFCARS Assessment Review Findings - Foster Care and Adoption Elements

Section III

AFCARS Assessment Review Case File Findings - Foster Care and Adoption Elements

Tab B - AFCARS Improvement Plan

Improvement Plan Instructions

Section I

AFCARS Assessment Review Improvement Plan - General Requirements

Section II

AFCARS Assessment Review Improvement Plan - Foster Care and Adoption Elements

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Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Napa County Family And Foster Care

The Katie A. Settlement Agreement requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to collect and post data used to evaluate utilization of services and timely access to appropriate care. These county datasets show services used by children and youth (under the age of 21) identified as Katie A. Subclass members and/or utilizing Katie A. specialty mental health services (Intensive Care Coordination, Intensive Home Based Services, and Therapeutic Foster Care). This data assists in evaluating each county’s progress with implementing.

Location:

Fairfield, California

Home Visiting Program Selected:

Nurse Family Partnership

Home Visiting Target Population:

Low-income, first-time mothers in the County with significant risk factors for child maltreatment, along with pregnant transitional-age youth previously or currently involved in foster care or in relationships with former or current foster care youth.

Project Overview: The County of Solano Department of Health and Social Services will work closely with community partners currently providing home visitation services, including BabyFirst Solano, a public-private partnership established in 2003 to make sure babies born in the County are healthy and able to thrive, to implement a Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) home visiting program. The Department expects to receive referrals to NFP from a diverse group of collaborative partner agencies and programs such as public health clinics, WIC clinics, family resource centers, and private physicians. To implement the grant, the Department's child welfare and public health divisions will collaborate with each other, including combining funding streams to support NFP. They will also work with mental health, substance abuse treatment, and employment and eligibility divisions. The grantee plans to compare outcomes, costs, and benefits of NFP with other, non-evidence-based home visiting models in the county, and will engage an external evaluator to conduct the evaluation.

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This data table provides distributed collection data for California child support cases. The data is sorted by counties and categorized as Current or Former Public Assistance, or Never Assisted types, and consists of cases where the child is or has received public assistance (AFDC, TANF, Foster Care, or Medicaid only), or are receiving child support services only without aid.

Introduction

California Health and Human Services (CalHHS) single and multi-program participation counts with demographics by year and geography, both the Annual (cumulative) and July (point in time) files. The data dictionary for each file is loaded as a resource within the CSV preview page.

Background

The CalHHS Program Data and Dashboard contain participation data related to seven California Health & Human Services agency programs: CalWORKs, CalFresh, In-Home Supportive Services, Foster Care, Medi-Cal (California Medicaid), Women, Infants, & Children, and Developmental Services. Users are able to view these data at the county level or by legislative district level (U.S. Congress, State Assembly, State Senate). Statistics on persons served, persons per case, average grant amount, and basic demographics are presented in both tabular spreadsheets and customizable visualizations by program. In addition to presenting statistics for each program separately, the dashboard also provides data on the number of individuals participating in more than one program at the same time in a given district or county.

Methodology

The Children's Data Network has prepared a methodology document for the process involved in creating this data. If you would like to review the methodology used, please click the link below to visit the CalHHS Records Reconciliation Methodology. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/pages/calhhs-program-counts-methodology

The Children’s Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families contracted with the Urban Institute and its partners—the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and the National Opinion Research Center—to conduct an evaluation of selected programs funded through John Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP). This evaluation, using a rigorous, random assignment design, was called for in the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999. The goal of the evaluation is to determine the effects of Independent Living Programs funded under CFCIP in achieving key outcomes for participating youth including increased educational attainment, higher employment rates and stability, greater interpersonal and relationship skills, reduced non-marital pregnancy and births, and reduced delinquency and crime rates. An initial evaluability assessment was conducted to identify programs that could be rigorously evaluated and to develop an evaluation design that would meet the requirements of the authorizing legislation. Programs participating in the evaluation include an employment services program in Kern County, California; a one-on-one intensive, individualized life skills program in Massachusetts; and, a tutoring/mentoring program and a classroom-based life skills training program, both in Los Angeles County, California.

Investigators: Mark E. Courtney, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Madison, WI

Matthew W. Stagner, Ph.D. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC

Michael Pergamit, Ph.D. Urban Institute Washington, DC

This data table provides distributed collection data for California child support cases. The data is sorted by counties and categorized as Current or Former Public Assistance, or Never Assisted types, and consists of cases where the child is or has received public assistance (AFDC, TANF, Foster Care, or Medicaid only), or are receiving child support services only without aid.

The Annual Recipient Report (ABCD 350) includes data on the ethnic origins and primary languages of recipients of CalWORKs, Foster Care (FC), Social Services, Non-Assistance CalFresh (NACF), CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work (WTW), Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA), and the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI).

The AFCARS Report (TAR) presents a national summary of foster care and adoption counts/data during a given fiscal year. Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Nevada North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.