By Justin Slaughter on June 30, 2010
[From Children's Defense Fund, June 30, 2010]
The Fostering Connections Resource Center provides information, training and tools related to implementation of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act so it will truly benefit children and youths. As Lead Partner for the Kinship/Guardianship Network of the Resource Center, CDF partnered with other organizations to create the Fostering Connections Kinship Toolkit.
The Kinship Toolkit is designed to assist states in promoting family connections for children in foster care. It describes how to implement the identification and notice requirements of the law so relatives can connect with children early. It offers guidance to help states that are considering applying for and implementing the Guardianship Assistance Program (GAP) funding.
The Kinship Toolkit includes information on the fiscal impact of GAP funding, myths and facts about GAP, sample legislation, and checklists and other sample documents necessary for implementing both GAP and the identification and notice requirements. The toolkit also provides answers to questions regarding all of the provisions that will affect children being raised by grandparents and other relatives.
Learn more about how to Foster Connections through Kin in your state by watching a webinar.
Posted in HEY Foster Care Resources | Tagged bay area, california, child welfare, foster care, foster care data, foster youth, resources, san francisco, support, transitional age youth
By Justin Slaughter on June 26, 2010
The California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership publishes data for the education, employment, housing, and permancy outcomes of California’s foster youth after they emancipated from the system for policymakers The publication, called insights, also compares the data to the outcome standards set by the National Child Welfare Standards.
Intended for stakeholders, this issue examines how to interpret and use data to improve critical outcomes for children in care The report also includes policy implications for the outcomes of youth aging out of California’s foster care system. Read full report. Intended for stakeholders, this issue examines how to interpret and use data to improve critical outcomes for children in care.
Posted in HEY Foster Care Resources | Tagged california, child welfare, data, foster care data, foster care research, foster youth, policy, research, resources, transitional age youth, youth
By Justin Slaughter on June 21, 2010
According to a new study done by the Public Policy Institute of California, since 2000 there has been a 45 percent drop in the share of California children in the state foster care system (even though in the last decade the overall population of children in California increased). More foster children now are remaining in their first out-of-home placement than ten years ago, and more children now are eventually placed with relatives–a main objective of the foster care providers.
However, despite the significant reductions, the study finds that the number of children who age-out of the system has actually risen since 2000. Additionally, state payments to foster families have not kept up with inflation, black children continue to be overrepresented in the foster care system, and the share of children who enter foster care more than once during their childhood has increased. Read full report.
Posted in Foster Care Library | Tagged aging out, budget, california, child welfare, foster care data, foster care research, foster youth, policy, research, transitional age youth
By Justin Slaughter on May 18, 2010
The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) prepared these State Fact Sheets about Foster Care for the 2010 National Foster Care Month campaign.
Posted in Foster Care Library, Foster Care Updates | Tagged foster care data, foster care month, foster care research, research, resources
By Josefina on May 5, 2010
The NRCPFC prepared fact sheets about foster care for the National Foster Care Month campaign. For each state and the District of Columbia you can find the following information:
- Number of children in foster care
- Average age and number of children in care by age range
- Gender
- Race/ethnicity of children in out-of-home care and of the general population in the state
- Average length of stay in care
- Percentage of children reunified with parents or primary caretakers
- Number of licensed foster homes
- Percent of youth living with relatives
- Percent of children adopted by foster parents and by relatives
- Contact information to find out how to become a foster parent in that state.
Most data was supplied by the Children’s Bureau for Fiscal Year 2003. Some states have provided more current statistics from their own data systems.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/fact-sheets.html
Posted in Foster Care Library, Foster Care Updates, State Foster Care Policy Updates | Tagged foster care data, foster care month, foster care research, foster care statistics, foster parents
By admin on January 21, 2010
[from the University of California Berkeley, UCB-CWS/CMS UPDATES -- 1/11/2010]
Updates have been made for the Child Welfare Services Content Management System that is sponsored by the University of California Berkeley. Researchers at UCB collect all the data that is entered by Child Welfare Workers across the state of California and enter it into a content management system. The information is publicly available, so anyone can pull up data sets, cross reference data, and compare information about many different features of foster youth. For instance, you can learn about how many foster youth are in your country, their ages and what percentages of them are in different types of placements.
Anyone can visit the website at http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare/
Our CWS outcomes spreadsheets and the Composite Viewer have now been updated with data from the Quarter 2, 2009 extract from CWS/CMS.
Please visit our website to examine updated analyses, and to download a copy of your county’s quarterly CWS outcomes spreadsheet.
http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare/
Posted in Foster Care Library | Tagged bay area, california, csw/cms, cws, data, foster care, foster care data
By admin on December 14, 2009
[from NRCPFC Weekly 12/09/09]
The following documents have been updated or added:
• Trends in Foster Care and Adoption for Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 through FY 2008, based on data submitted by states as of October 2009.
• The AFCARS Report #16 which provides preliminary FY 2008 Estimates as of October 2009.
• The AFCARS Report #15 which provides preliminary FY 2007 Estimates as of October 2009.
• State Specific Foster Care Statistics (Foster Care FY 2002 – FY 2008 Entries, Exits, and Numbers of Children In Care on the Last Day of each Federal Fiscal Year), based on data submitted by states as of October 2009.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm
Posted in Foster Care Library | Tagged afcars, data, foster care data, foster care statistics
