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The Children's Bureau, Division of State Systems (DSS) hosted a state panel discussion about recording intake calls.  The panel, consisting of representatives from Colorado, Iowa, and New Jersey, responded to questions about their reasons for recording intake calls, how their child welfare service providers use the recordings, and about their lessons learned.  The webinar concluded with a question and answer segment.

Each year, the Children's Bureau releases a detailed Child Maltreatment report, which includes data submitted by child protective services agencies in the United States.

The report answers questions such as the following:

• How many children are the subject of child abuse and neglect reports each year?
• What types of maltreatment are reported?
• What are the ages, genders, and other characteristics of child victims?
• How many children die each year from child maltreatment?
• What services were provided to children who were maltreated—or are at risk of maltreatment—and their families?

It is important to keep in mind that these reports and other statistical publications often are released a few years behind the current year because it takes time to collect, analyze, and release the data.

Child Welfare Information Gateway, a service of the Children's Bureau, maintains a comprehensive list of statistical sources of child welfare data on its website.

Family poverty can increase the likelihood of child maltreatment. Public assistance agencies administer the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to provide financial support and employment assistance to low-income families. To reduce a family's risk of maltreatment and involvement in the child welfare system, child maltreatment prevention programs are being offered to TANF families.

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 2015 Report to Congress.

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

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

This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance to states, territories, and insular areas (hereafter "states," unless otherwise noted) administering titles IV-B and IV-E of the Act and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) and to Indian Tribes, Indian Tribal Organizations, or Indian Tribal Consortia (hereafter "tribes" unless otherwise noted) administering titles IV-B and IV-E of the Act of changes in law and funding affecting the information that must be submitted with the Annual Progress and Services Report due June 30, 2018.

This podcast is the part of the Prevention Series. "Prevention: Delivering Services through Education"showcases how Oregon is using TANF families to screen for risk of potential involvement in the child welfare system, and to select families to provide and coordinate prevention services. It presents how the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services manages its network of Family Support Centers through its Office of Child Development and Early Learning.

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