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This technical assistance document provides guidance to title IV-E agencies about incorporating cloud service models, such as Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service into child welfare information systems. 

This webinar addressed critical topics for consideration by title IV-E agencies when writing data quality plans.  It discussed biennial review requirements and shared lessons learned (strengths and areas of improvement) from ACF's review and approval of data quality plans in the first two years after the CCWIS transition period.

This brief discusses the impact of data quality issues on the size and scope of the baseline population cohort and ways to address them.

This report includes documentation from Arkansas’s Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2001.

This joint Information Memorandum (IM) from the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF); Children’s Bureau (CB); Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB); and the Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides an overview of federal statutes related to human trafficking among children and youth in the child welfare system and highlights resources to meet those requirements.

This document provides key findings from the final evaluation of the Capacity Building Center for States.

This executive summary presents findings from an evaluation of the services delivered by the Capacity Building Center for States, which is funded by the Children’s Bureau, from fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

This Information Memorandum (IM) informs title IV-B and IV-E agencies and State and Tribal Court Improvement Programs of the enactment of Division X and Section 305 of Title III of Division CC of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 and provides basic information on the new law. 

This brief describes two Children’s Bureau programs through which young adults provide technical assistance to states about child welfare issues: the Young Adult Consultant program and the National Youth in Transition Database Reviewers program.

In the video, Collaborative & Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities: The Roles and Voices of Key Stakeholders, Dolores Subia Bigfoot, Francine Eddy Jones, and Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell describe the roles of these stakeholders and reflect on the promise of a new publication, A Roadmap for Collaborative and Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities, for promoting more collaborative and effective evaluation with Tribal communities.