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Report to Congress on the challenges for older children in foster care to achieve permanency and promising strategies being employed across the country to address these issues.

Describes the nature, scope, and impact of interjurisdictional adoption placement efforts and the strategies that improve outcomes for children in foster care who are placed for adoption in other jurisdictions.

This report identifies programs that can be rigorously evaluated and ultimately determines the effects of Independent Living Programs funded under CFCIP in achieving key outcomes for participating youth. This evaluation was called for in the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.

This brief summarizes significant accomplishments and the lessons learned through the RISE project in its first five years.

This PII grantee program manual provides detailed information about the implementation process of the Illinois Trauma Focus Model for Reducing Long-Term Foster Care project.

The state of California has two Permanency Innovation Initiative (PII) grantees; they operate the California Partners for Permanency (CAPP)  and Recognize. Intervene. Support. Empower (RISE) projects.

A presentation on the use of Washoe County's  SAFE-Family Connections intervention with families with children determined to be unsafe, part of the Nevada Initiative to Reduce Long-Term Foster Care / Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII).

A one-page summary of the RISE project's care coordination services fidelity assessment feedback loop.

This panel shares lessons learned through the Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) on dissemination; data mining and building evaluation capacity; and defining core functions and developing fidelity measures for child welfare interventions.

An overivew of the Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) cross-site evaluation which investigates the implementation of interventions designed to reduce long-term foster care and the effectiveness of those interventions to do so across the grantees.