Resource Library

This short, 30-minute technical training video is created by The Children's Bureau Data Analytics and Reporting Team and gives a brief demonstration which describes basic XML concepts.

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

This guide helps title IV-E agencies prepare for an Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review. It includes technical assistance and tools to conduct a self-assessment of a title IV-E agency’s data collection system and guidance for developing a system that supports AFCARS data collection.

This webpage includes the documentation from Louisiana's Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2013:

This document is supplementary material to the subsequent primary review of South Carolina's Title IV-E foster care program.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides information on the final rule for the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD).

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction to states on the June 30, 2008 submission of the Annual Progress and Services Report (APSR) required under Title IV-B of the Social Security Act (the Act), the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), and the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP), including the ETV program; the submission of the CFS-101, Part I, Annual Budget Request, Part II, Annual Summary of Child and Family Services, and Part III, Annual Expenditure Report—Title IV-B, Subparts 1 and 2, CFCIP and ETV.

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

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

This report provides preliminary estimates of Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data for FY 2015.