The most current Child Welfare Outcomes data is featured on this site. Through the site, you can view the data before the full report is published. The most recently published full report is Child Welfare Outcomes 2004-2007: Report to Congress.

The Child Welfare Outcomes Report data site

presents the most current publicly available data from the annual Child Welfare Outcomes Report. This includes data on state performance on seven child welfare outcomes measures as well as data not currently available in the full Report, including additional context data, characteristics of child maltreatment victims, characteristics of children in foster care, and alternate categorical breakdowns for all race/ethnicity data. The site allows users to create customized outputs and compare data across time and states.

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This technical assistance document provides guidance to Medicaid and child welfare agencies to assist and support the creation of automated, bi-directional (two-way) data exchanges between their respective information systems.

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This program upgrades the skills, knowledge and qualifications of prospective and current child welfare agency staff and supports special projects for training personnel to work in the field of child welfare. These discretionary grants are awarded to public and private non-profit institutions of higher learning and are designed to assist State child welfare agencies in developing a stable and highly skilled workforce for providing effective child welfare services. Further, the Child Welfare Discretionary Grant Projects develop and maintain a strong University- Public Agency Partnership toward the goal of identifying and developing the appropriate staff competencies.

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Single source providing information on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program rules among States and across years (currently 1996-2010), including longitudinal tables with state TANF polices for selected years.

This technical assistance toolkit provides guidance to courts and child welfare agencies to assist and support the creation of automated, bi-directional (two-way) data exchanges between their respective information systems.

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The numbers of children (duplicate count) are counted once for each investigation response or alternative response that reached a disposition (finding) for the most recent federal fiscal year for which data are available.

*11/29/2021: Added column including year in which data was collected.

To view more National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) findings, click link to summary page below: https://healthdata.gov/stories/s/kaeg-w7jc

Child Welfare Training Grant funds are authorized each fiscal year for grants to public or other non-profit institutions of higher learning for special projects to train personnel for work in the field of child welfare. Federal funds for Child Welfare Training Projects were available for 1) training child welfare practitioners to work effectively with youth transitioning out of foster care through the Federal Independent Living Program; 2) training managers and supervisors to enhance their capability to understand and implement ASFA; 3) competency-based training of child welfare agency supervisors; and 4) professional education for current and prospective public child welfare agency staff to obtain bachelor of social work degrees.

This section of the Compendium describes the 5 Child Welfare Training Discretionary Grants funded in FY 2001 under the following priority areas:

2001D.1: Demonstration Sites: Building Analytic Capacity for Child Welfare Programs in State Systems 2001D.2: Mentor Sites: Building Analytic Capacity for Child Welfare Programs in State Systems

The State of Oklahoma will establish a contractual relationship with the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare (KUSSW) to build the analytic capacity of DCFS to implement a Results Oriented Management (ROM) model developed by KUSSW and refined through this initiative. This approach emphasizes the use of information generated by an enhanced management-reporting model and research system, an organizational culture centered on creating a learning organization, and the increasing skills of managers to interpret and take action for program and policy improvements. Such a reports system offers relevant performance information at all levels of the agency in a flexible format that enables managers to obtain far more detail and analyses. A research and evaluation program will be implemented that informs agency policy and program development and culminates in a long-term research agenda providing a framework for future research. Training and technical assistance will be provided to facilitate the use of these new reports and research results. Several methods of communicating information and engaging staff in using data for program improvement will be undertaken, including research briefs and a listserv. To engage local stakeholders, three demonstration sites will be established in the community to engage community stakeholders in program improvement activities.

The Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) will build its data analysis capacity by expanding on its public-private partnership with Hornby Zeller Associates (HZA). By the end of this project, DCFS expects to produce monthly and quarterly reports for management decision making, focusing on case status, case flow, performance, outcome achievement, and costs and benefits. In addition, research and evaluation activities will occur regularly inside the Program Evaluation and Data (PED) unit, and DCFS management will have extensive experience in using data, and have a thorough understanding of the findings of the different analyses. HZA's extensive experience in designing and operating data analysis units for child welfare agencies will ensure that the growth in data analysis capacity occurs quickly. Under this project, PED will begin producing monthly status and case flow information out of the State Automated Child Welfare Information System in the beginning of 2002 and outcome information will become available within 6 months thereafter. More in-depth research and evaluation projects are slated to begin during the third year of the project; the training of managers in the use of data will be an ongoing process throughout the course of the project.

The Division of Child Welfare of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) will build its data-analytic capacity. The three primary objectives of the project are to establish a research center to generate studies to inform the

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This document summarizes the final rule of the title IV-E Foster Care eligibility reviews and child and family services state plan reviews.

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Each year, the Children's Bureau produces the Annual Report to Congress on State Child Welfare Expenditures Reported on the CFS-101s.

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The Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services Program provides grants to States and Indian tribes for programs directed toward the goal of keeping families together. They include preventive intervention so that, if possible, children will not have to be removed from their homes. If this is not possible, children are placed in foster care and reunification services are available to encourage the return of children who have been removed from their families. Services are available to children and their families without regard to income.

These funds are a small but integral part of State social service systems for families who need assistance in order to stay together. These funds, often combined with State and local government, as well as private funds, are directed to accomplish the following purposes:

States can use a portion of their funds (no more than their 2005 expenditure level) for foster care maintenance payments, adoption assistance and day care related to employment or training for employment. States must limit expenditures for administrative costs 10 percent or less of their expenditures under this program.

Each state receives a base amount of $70,000. Additional funds are distributed in proportion to the state's population of children under age 21 multiplied by the complement of the state's average per capita income. The state match requirement is 25 percent. Funding is approximately $282,000,000 for FY 2008.

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This guide addresses the components of comprehensive family assessment, shows the linkages to service planning and service provision, and illustrates how child welfare agencies can support their use. These guidelines are provided as an initial framework to facilitate efforts to move the child welfare community towards comprehensive assessment as a best practice.

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This webinar described the Court Improvement Program (CIP) and featured project leaders from Georgia and Washington sharing how their states have built court data exchanges that improved child welfare and court outcomes. This webinar session provided an overview of the CIP program, explored opportunities for collaboration between child welfare information systems project managers and court improvement program directors, provided an overview of the child welfare information exchange model, and concluded with state panelists sharing their experiences.

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The video Keeping Track of Our Most Valuable Resource: Using Workforce Data to Improve Child Welfare Programs urges public and private child welfare agencies to assess their knowledge about their workers and to put data collection and management systems in place to gather accurate and complete workforce data.

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Via Reginfo: The Adoption Call to Action is an effort by the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The purpose of the Adoption Call to Action is to engage child welfare agencies to improve the timeliness and likelihood of permanency for children who are waiting for adoption. Fifty-three jurisdictions are participating with each receiving technical assistance support from the Capacity Building Center for States, a Children’s Bureau funded provider. Each jurisdiction is involved in developing and implementing innovative solutions to achieve the goals established for this initiative. Lessons learned from this data collection will not only provide an assessment of the overall effectiveness of this initiative but will inform similar efforts in the future. This new information collection will provide the Children’s Bureau with an understanding of agency target populations, specific strategies (interventions), and outcomes measurement, in order to inform technical assistance strategies and provide a national picture of the overall success of the initiative. Baseline data will be collected with an initial survey (Baseline Survey), with two follow-up survey instruments (Progress Update Survey) designed to collect process and outcome measures at two additional points in time. The instruments focus on (1) identifying the target population(s) agencies are addressing, (2) understanding elements of intervention implementation (process measures), and (3) capturing information related to the outcomes of these efforts. Respondents of these data collection instruments will include one representative from each of the 53 child welfare agencies who are participating in Adoption Call to Action activities. Respondents will be able to use their own responses to this data collection to support their jurisdiction’s efforts to document and monitor progress and to communicate with stakeholders. Aggregate reporting will be developed from this data collection at each of the three points of data collection to provide TA providers and the Children’s Bureau with progress updates that can be used to developed more effective and tailored approaches to assistance.

Units of Response: Child Welfare Agencies

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Periodicity: Irregular

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This notice from the Federal Register announces the final list of child welfare outcomes and measures and the data elements that will be used to compute each state's performance on each measure.

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This executive order

aims to strengthen America’s child welfare system through improving partnerships, resources, and oversight.

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