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This issue of Child and Family Services Reviews Update contains the following sections: CB Response to COVID-19 Pandemic, CFSR Technical Bulletin #11, Enhancements to the Data Indicator Visualizations, State Data Profiles Released, ACYF-CB-PI-20-02— State Guidance on FY 2021 APSR, Status of Approved PIPs, and PIP Evaluation During Non-Overlapping Data Periods.

This letter from the Children’s Bureau describes how title IV-E agencies can utilize enhanced foster care programs during the COVID-19 pandemic to support youth who have left or may leave foster care.

This letter, which was jointly issued by the Administration for Children and Families and the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, encourages family support, maternal and child health, and early childhood programs to promote family strengthening and prevention strategies via virtual, electronic, telephonic, or other safe means during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This webinar explained how states are using remote/distance training and learning for CCWIS rollout and implementation. This webinar session provided an overview of key strategies for effective and engaging distance learning models for training and onboarding of new staff. State panelists shared lessons learned with using virtual reality during the onboarding and training process as well as lessons learned from quickly pivoting from in-person training to virtual training due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This webinar described the Court Improvement Program (CIP) and featured project leaders from Georgia and Washington sharing how their states have built court data exchanges that improved child welfare and court outcomes. This webinar session provided an overview of the CIP program, explored opportunities for collaboration between child welfare information systems project managers and court improvement program directors, provided an overview of the child welfare information exchange model, and concluded with state panelists sharing their experiences.

This technical bulletin provides information for title IV-E agencies on the title IV-E prevention program data collection timelines the Children’s Bureau (CB) will use to manage data submission.

This document provides suggestions from the Children’s Bureau about how states can continue oversight activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes tips and resources to help states prepare state reviewers, train quality assurance staff and reviewers, and temporarily conduct remote interviews.

This Information Memoranda (IM) informs title IV-E agencies that the Children’s Bureau (CB) published a final rule to revise the AFCARS data elements in the Federal Register on May 12, 2020.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction and procedures to title IV-E agencies on how to request flexibility to meet the specific title IV-E requirements noted in this Program Instruction (PI) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and national public health emergency.

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