This study presents data from two samples from the Texas Adoption Project. The main sample consists of 300 families who adopted a child from a Texas home for unwed mothers between 1963 and 1971. Included are ability and personality data from the adoptees and other children in the families, from the adoptive mothers and fathers, and from many of the birth mothers of the adopted children. The data include an initial study in the late 1970s, a ten-year follow-up of the children in the late 1980s, interviews with the parents in about half the adoptive families between 1997 and 2002, and a short mail questionnaire in 2002-2005 focused on life outcomes. The second sample consists of 220 families who adopted a child from the same institution prior to 1966. The data are comprised of item responses and scale scores from two personality inventories completed by mail in 1980 by 215 fathers, 219 mothers, 302 adopted children, and 63 biological children of the adoptive parents. The inventories were The California Psychological Inventory and the Thurstone Temperament Schedule. For depositor requirements for access to restricted data, click on 'other information' tab at the bottom of this page.

This chart counts the number of children in DFPS custody on August 31 of the fiscal year who meet all of the following criteria: (1) a court has terminated all parental rights; (2) the child has a plan of adoption; and (3) the child is not in an adoptive placement. The count includes both children who are in an intended to be permanent home and children who are not in an intended to be permanent home. Use the filter to isolate these counts. Children in DFPS custody are those for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through temporary or permanent managing conservatorship or other court ordered legal basis. An adoptive placement occurs when the child's caseworker, the family's case manager, and the adoptive family sign paperwork officially placing the child in the home for adoption. Before the paperwork can be signed, a child must be free for adoption (meaning a court has terminated parental rights), have a permanency goal of adoption and the family must have been approved for adoption through a licensed child placing agency.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Texas Foster Care and Adoption Services

This dashboard includes those Foster and Adoptive homes that were screened and approved for child care through DFPS. Most of the FADs in the state are screened and approved for adoption through a private licensed child placing agency. Adoptive home – A home which has been screened and approved for adoption through DFPS. The Adoptive Home counts do not include homes open only for receipt of adoption subsidy. Foster-adoptive home – A home that has been approved to provide 24-hour residential care for a child, in accordance with Chapter 42 of the Human Resources Code and related regulations and that has been screened and approved have been approved for adoption through DFPS. Foster home – A home that has been approved to provide 24-hour residential care for a child, in accordance with Chapter 42 of the Human Resources Code and related regulation. Children in DFPS custody are those for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through temporary or permanent managing conservatorship or other court ordered legal basis.

This chart counts children who exited DFPS custody to adoption during the fiscal year. To be adopted, a court must have terminated parental rights, the child must have lived with the adoptive family for at least 6 months, the family must have been approved for adoption through a licensed child placing agency and a court must have ordered legal custody to the adoptive parents.

Visit dfps.state.tx.us for information on all DFPS programs

This chart counts the number of unique children in DFPS custody who lived in an adoptive placement at some point during the fiscal year. Children in DFPS custody are those for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through temporary or permanent managing conservatorship or other court ordered legal basis. An adoptive placement occurs when the child's caseworker, the family's case manager, and the adoptive family sign paperwork officially placing the child in the home for adoption. Before the paperwork can be signed, a child must be free for adoption (meaning a court has terminated parental rights), have a permanency goal of adoption and the family must have been approved for adoption through a licensed child placing agency. Children may have more than one disabling condition. This chart gives the count of each child with each disabling condition. Drug/Alcohol disabling condition can either be due to self-abuse or exposure to an individual with the condition. Other includes teen parent or pregnant teen. Visit dfps.texas.gov for more information about DFPS and our programs.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Greyhound Adoption League of Texas Inc.

This chart counts the number of unique children in DFPS custody who lived in an adoptive placement at some point during the fiscal year and the total number of adoptive placements during the year. Children can have more than one adoptive placement. This chart includes children in DFPS custody for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through Permanent Managing Conservatorship.

An adoptive placement occurs when the child's caseworker, the family's case manager, and the adoptive family sign paperwork officially placing the child in the home for adoption. Before the paperwork can be signed, a child must be free for adoption (meaning a court has terminated parental rights), have a permanency goal of adoption and the family must have been approved for adoption through a licensed child placing agency.

Visit dfps.state.tx.us for information on adoption and all DFPS programs.

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Reflects children who receive an adoption subsidy that is paid through either federal or state funds. Subsidy includes financial payments only, not medical and non-recurring subsidies.

The Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Service established the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG). In October 2014, the QIC-AG was awarded to Spaulding for Children in partnership with The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The QIC-AG was designed to promote permanence, when reunification is no longer a goal, and improve adoption and guardianship preservation and support.

For five years, the QIC-AG team worked with eight sites across the nation, with the purpose to implement evidence-based interventions or develop and test promising practices which, if proven effective, could be replicated or adapted in other child welfare jurisdictions. However, for the NDACAN archive, data from only 6 of the sites are included. These sites are from the following jurisdictions: Catawba County (NC), Illinois, New Jersey, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin.

The six sites included in the NDACAN dataset all served the following broad target population, defined by the funder as: “Children and youth and their adoptive or guardianship families who have already finalized the adoption or guardianship and for whom stabilization may be threatened will also be targeted for support and service interventions. The children and youth in this target group may have been adopted through the child welfare system or by private domestic or intercountry private agency involvement.”

The primary research question was: Do families with a finalized adoption or guardianship have increased post-permanency stability and improved well-being if they receive post permanency services and support compared with similar families who receive services as usual? The project’s short-term outcomes varied by site and included, for example, increased level of caregiver commitment; reduced levels of family stress; improved familial relationships; and reduced child behavioral issues. The project had three long-term outcomes: increased post-permanency stability, improved behavioral health for children, and improved child and family well-being.

Investigators: Nancy Rolock, PhD Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OHRowena Fong, EdD The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

For children who cannot reunify and for whom adoption has been ruled out, the Permanency Care Assistance (PCA) Program provides a monthly subsidy to relatives and fictive kin that take legal custody as a permanent managing conservator and have been a verified foster care provider for the child for at least 6 months. The PCA subsidy is similar to an adoption subsidy. Does not include non-recurring payments. Note: The Permanency Care Assistance program began in Fiscal Year 2011.

This chart counts the number of unique children in DFPS custody who lived in an adoptive placement at some point during the fiscal year and the total number of adoptive placements during the year. Children can have more than one adoptive placement. This chart includes children in DFPS custody for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through Permanent Managing Conservatorship.

An adoptive placement occurs when the child's caseworker, the family's case manager, and the adoptive family sign paperwork officially placing the child in the home for adoption. Before the paperwork can be signed, a child must be free for adoption (meaning a court has terminated parental rights), have a permanency goal of adoption and the family must have been approved for adoption through a licensed child placing agency.

Visit dfps.state.tx.us for information on adoption and all DFPS programs.

Context

The Austin Animal Center is the largest no-kill animal shelter in the United States that provides care and shelter to over 18,000 animals each year. As part of the AAC's efforts to help and care for animals in need, the organization makes available its accumulated data and statistics as part of the city of Austin's Open Data Initiative.

Content

The data contains intakes and outcomes of animals entering the Austin Animal Center from the beginning of October 2013 to the present day. The datasets are also freely available on the Socrata Open Data Access API and are updated daily.

The following are links to the datasets hosted on Socrata's Open Data:

• Austin Animal Center Intakes
• Austin Animal Center Outcomes

The data contained in this dataset is the outcomes and intakes data as noted above, as well as a combined dataset. The merging of the outcomes and intakes data was done on a unique key that is a combination of the given Animal ID and the intake number. Several of the animals in the dataset have been taken into the shelter multiple times, which creates duplicate Animal IDs that causes problems when merging the two datasets.

Copied from the description of the Shelter Outcomes dataset, here are some definitions of the outcome types:

• Adoption
  • the animal was adopted to a home
• Barn Adoption
  • the animal was adopted to live in a barn
• Offsite Missing
  • the animal went missing for unknown reasons at an offsite partner location
• In-Foster Missing
  • the animal is missing after being placed in a foster home
• In-Kennel Missing
  • the animal is missing after being transferred to a kennel facility
• Possible Theft
  • Although not confirmed, the animal went missing as a result of theft from the facility
• Barn Transfer
  • The animal was transferred to a facility for adoption into a barn environment
• SNR
  • SNR refers to the city of Austin's Shelter-Neuter-Release program. I believe the outcome is representative of the animal being released.

Acknowledgements

The data presented here is only possible through the hard work and dedication of the Austin Animal Center in saving and caring for animal lives.

Inspiration

Following from the first dataset I posted to Kaggle, Austin Animal Shelter Outcomes, which was initially filtered for just cats as part of an analysis I was performing, I wanted to post the complete outcome and complementing intake datasets. My hope is the great users of Kaggle will find this data interesting and want to explore shelter animal statistics further and perhaps get more involved in the animal welfare community. The analysis of this data and other shelter animal provided datasets helps uncover useful insights that have the potential to save lives directly.