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This TB provides title IV-E agencies with guidance in encrypting record numbers in the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data file submissions.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides information on the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Collection of Race Information.

This Information Memorandum informs state and tribal title IV-E agencies about the publication of the AFCARS final rule.

This Information Memorandum (IM) informs title IV-E agencies of the ANPRM (published on March 15, 2018 and 83 FR 11449) and the NPRM regarding implementation of the December 2016 AFCARS final rule (published on March 15, 2018 and 83 FR 11450).

This Information Memorandum (IM) informs title IV-E agencies of the Children’s Bureau’s intent to publish a NPRM to revise the AFCARS data points. This IM also informs title IV-E agencies of the final rule regarding implementation of the December 2016 AFCARS final rule and briefly summarizes public comments received in response to the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), published in the Federal Register on March 15, 2018 (83 FR 11449).

The Children's Bureau Data Analytics and Reporting Team held their first AFCARS Open Office Hours in 2023. These sessions are for state and tribal program administrators, child welfare data leaders, and information system programmers. It provides an opportunity to ask questions specific to your agency's implementation of AFCARS 2020. The January session was presented by the NCWDMS team on how to participate in the pilot and use the National Child Welfare Data Management System (NCWDMS) for AFCARS 2020 reporting.

This report includes documentation from Delaware’s Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2002.

This report includes documentation from Arizona’s Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2009.

This report includes documentation from Alabama’s Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2011.

This report provides preliminary estimaes of AFCARS data for FY 2009. Preliminary reports of AFCARS data include data received by September 30 for the report period ending March 31 and by March 31 for the report period ending September 30.