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This Information Memorandum (IM) emphasizes the importance of child welfare agencies assessing and providing appropriate services to families with a child in foster care or involved with a child welfare agency, whose parent(s) and legal guardians may be at risk of, or are, being detained or deported.

This Information Memorandum (IM) informs state and tribal title IV-E agencies about the publication of the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) and where to submit comments.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides information about Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Opportunities for Prevention and Action.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides information on New Legislation - Public Law 113-183, the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act.

This Information Memorandum (IM) is to provide an overview of re-homing of adopted children: responsibilities for states and opportunities in the provision of post-adoption services.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides guidance for direction-setting and decisions regarding child welfare reporting mandated by title IV-E and the potential acquisition of tribal child welfare information systems.

This Information Memorandum (IM) encourages Child Welfare Agencies to share data with various Children’s Bureau discretionary grant projects, or related federally-funded initiatives.

This Information Memorandum (IM) supersedes guidance previously issued by this agency in ACYF-CB-IM-05-02 (Issued: May 3, 2005). This IM provides information to title IV-E agencies seeking an exemption from prior Federal approval related to automated data processing equipment and services procurements.

This Information Memorandum (IM) transmits issuance of the revised Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Review Guide and Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility On-Site Review Instrument.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides information on Establishing and Maintaining Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Systems in State Child Welfare Agencies.