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This brief summarizes significant accomplishments and the lessons learned through the RISE project in its first five years.

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

The University of Kansas, in partnership with the Kansas Department for Children and Families and two private providers that comprise Kansas' statewide foster care network, is working to accelerate stable permanency for families of children with serious emotional disturbance (SED) by delivering intensive, home-based parent training and support services shortly after children are removed from their homes.

The Washoe County Department of Social Services aims to reduce the number of children in long-term foster care by implementing an intervention approach, SAFE-FC, to keep children safe, prevent them from coming into care, and to improve permanency outcomes for subgroups of children who have the most serious barriers to permanency.

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

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

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

This brief presents findings from NYTD surveys completed by Cohort 1 youth at ages 17 and 19, including key comparisons by gender and foster care status.

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 about the effectiveness of the intervention.

This study outlines the findings of the Los Angeles Foster Youth Survey (LAFYS), part of the Los Angeles LGBT Center's RISE project. The report represents a first step toward population-based data collection on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) foster youth and highlights some areas where further research can be conducted with LGBTQ youth in foster care.