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This report to Congress provides information on the performance of states on seven national outcome categories and also includes data on contextual factors and findings of analyses conducted across states.

This document provides a summary of Child Welfare Outcomes 2016 Report to Congress.

This webpage provides summaries and profiles of the Child Welfare Waiver Demonstrations through Federal Fiscal Year 2019, including their programmatic goals proposed service interventions, and evaluation designs.

This paper explores jurisdictions' efforts to implement and evaluate evidence-based programs (EBPs) as part of a child welfare waiver demonstration from 2012 through the first half of 2019. It addresses the successes and challenges of implementing EBPs; maintaining fidelity to the service models with child welfare populations; and findings related to child and family safety, permanency, and well-being.

Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System: Challenges and Recommendations for Policy and Practice describes how child welfare agencies can improve diligent recruitment practices and services for resource families. It is based on grantee final reports and published research and presents activities undertaken by grantees, lessons learned, and suggestions for improvement.

This report presents results regarding parent engagement from CFSRs conducted in the 38 states that were reviewed during the first 3 years of round 3 of the CFSRs.

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

This report presents key findings from the analyses of performance data for the states reviewed during the first 3 years of round 3 of the CFSRs and describes the results of a preliminary examination of the strengths and areas needing improvement identified across those states.

This issue of Child and Family Services Reviews Update contains the following sections: CFSR E-Training Platform Redesign and New Training Course, Recent Personnel Changes in CFSR Unit, Program Improvement Plans, Approvals Progressing for Round 3 CFSRs, PIP Pilots, Online Monitoring System Updates, Round 3 Aggregate Report, Years 2015-2017.

This document provides the 2018 report compiling data from state and tribal title IV-E agencies’ reported Adoption Savings, as well as background information on Adoption Savings requirements.