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This is a list of the Foster Care and Adoption data elements as currently published in the Appendix to 45 CFR part 1355.

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

This document provides the 2017 report compiling data from state and tribal title IV-E agencies’ reported Adoption Savings, as well as background information on Adoption Savings requirements.

This report provides preliminary estimates of Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data for FY 2017. As states are permitted to resubmit AFCARS data, the estimates may change over time. This report reflects all AFCARS data received as of August 10, 2018 related to AFCARS reporting periods through September 30, 2017.

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

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

This resource provides information to states planning their NYTD Review on why and how a state should involve young people in their NYTD Review process. It discusses ways a state can support young people including providing resources, ideas on how to prepare them, debriefing, networking opportunities, and compensation ideas to incentivize participation.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services will demonstrate, and take to scale statewide, an evidence-based trauma intervention to promote more timely achievement of permanency among youth ages 11 to 16 who have reached their 2-year anniversary in foster care.

The Arizona Department of Economic Security, Central Region (Eastern Maricopa and Pinal Counties) developed the Fostering Readiness and Permanency Project (FRP), which uses coordinated service provision to prepare children who have been in, or are most likely to remain in, continuous out-of-home care and their potential caregivers for permanency.

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