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The Office on Child Abuse and Neglect seeks to build its capacity for evaluating the programs of its grantees for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
This webpage includes the documentation from Louisiana's Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2013:
This newsletter provides information related to the federal Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) and Illinois’ implementation of a trauma-focused model for reducing long-term foster care; it contains an overview of the PII study and Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy (TARGET) intervention, implementation and evaluation updates, and youth success stories to date.
This Program Instruction (PI) provides information to States and Tribes regarding changes to the regulations at 45 CFR Part 95 related to the Advance Planning Document (APD) process used to obtain approval of Federal financial participation (FFP) for acquiring automated data processing equipment and services.
This Program Instruction (PI) provides information on the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Funds under the Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect program created by Title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act as amended by Public Law (P.L.) 111-320.
This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance for implementing recent changes to the Title IV-E foster care eligibility re-determination policy in a Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) environment and the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Fostering Connections) (Public Law (P.L.) 110-351).
This Information Memorandum (IM) provides information and guidance for use by States and Regional Offices on Updated National Standards for the Child and Family Service Reviews and Guidance on Program Improvement Plans.