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This document provides an overview of how to understand and comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994, as amended by the Interethnic Adoption Provisions.

This document provides an overview of the Title IV-E Adoption Assistance grant program.

This Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) report presents national estimates related to children who experience time in foster care and who are adopted from the foster care system, relative to each Federal Fiscal Year shown.

The Adoption Excellence Awards recognize outstanding accomplishments in achieving permanency for America's children waiting in foster care.

This document provides state-specific data about the four award categories of the Adoption Incentives program for earning years 2008 to 2012, including numbers of adoptions and incentives earned.

Prevention Training for Home Visitors

Child Welfare Information Gateway Podcast Series
October 16, 2020

Child welfare agencies continue to seek effective, affordable, and time-saving professional development for caseworkers. This episode features the Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals, a collaboration between State agencies, universities, and home visiting organizations that offers 66 e-learning modules supporting the National Family Support Competency Framework. The framework is a shared model of competencies and skills common across home visiting and child welfare professionals.

This episode features a conversation with Laurel Aparicio, director, Early Impact Virginia, and Janet Horras, State home visitation director, Iowa Department of Public Health.

The Children's Bureau Data Analytics and Reporting Team held their second AFCARS Open Office Hours for 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 February session covered the recent changes in Technical Bulletins 20, 21, 22, and 23, as well as additional information 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 technical bulletin provides title IV-E agencies with information on the standards an AFCARS data file must meet to comply with the provisions of the AFCARS regulations found at 45 CFR §1355.41— §1355.47. This technical bulletin was last revised on October 6, 2023

PI-95-09

May 25, 1995

This Program Instruction (PI) clarifies program instruction on methods of extracting data for submission to the federal adoption and foster care analysis and reporting system (AFCARS).

PI-02-05

May 10, 2002

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction to States on the June 30, 2002 submission of the Annual Progress and Services Report required under title IV-B of the Social Security Act (the Act), the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, and the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program; and the CFS-101, Annual Budget Request and Annual Summary of Child and Family Services.