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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.

 

 

On November 1, 2022, the Children’s Bureau hosted a webinar on Title IV-E Program Data Submission which included a review of the data quality rules, provided clarity on some of the data elements, and reviewed the commonly observed errors in the first submission. The Webinar and Presentation slides may be accessed through the links below.

IM-83-08

May 5, 1983

This Information Memorandum (IM) discusses exclusion from gross income (for Federal income tax purposes) of certain foster care maintenance payments.

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).

IM-85-24

August 1, 1985

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides information on the revised fiscal reports for foster care and adoption assistance.

PI-07-08

May 30, 2007

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction on the monthly caseworker visits data for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007.

PI-03-05

May 23, 2003

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction on the June 30, 2003 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 (CAPTA), and the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP); and the CFS-101, Annual Budget Request and Annual Summary of Child and Family Services.

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.

IM-07-04

May 17, 2007

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction on Assisted Guardianship Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Projects and Categorical Eligibility for Medicaid for Title IV-E Eligible Children.

P.L. 109-239

July 3, 2006

This document provides an overview of Safe and Timely Interstate Placement of Foster Children Act of 2006.