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This Information Memorandum (IM) provides information on best practices, resources, and recommendations for achieving permanency for children and youth in a way that prioritizes the child’s or youth’s well-being.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance to states, territories, and insular areas (hereafter “states,” unless otherwise noted) on actions they are required to take to receive their allotments for Federal Fiscal Year (FY)1 2022 (subject to the availability of appropriations) authorized under title IV-B, subparts 1 and 2, section 106 of CAPTA, Chafee and ETV programs.

The purpose of this Program Instruction is to set forth the eligibility requirements and grant application procedures for the basic, data and training CIP grants for FY 2022, including the development of a new five-year strategic plan, and to provide guidance on the requirements for state courts to continuously assess and improve the handling of court proceedings related to child welfare and enhance collaboration with title IV-B/IV-E agencies and tribes.

This letter from the Children’s Bureau encourages agencies and courts to continue working together to ensure judicial hearings and reviews proceed and critical judicial oversight occurs in child welfare proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This website includes the State context and outcomes data that are found in the State Data Pages within the full reports. The site also includes national statistics that are calculated using State-level data. The data site currently includes data for 2007 through 2010.

This report provides preliminary estimaes of AFCARS data for FY 2009. Preliminary reports of AFCARS data include data received by September 30 for the report period ending March 31 and by March 31 for the report period ending September 30.

This report provides state-specific data from fiscal year 2005 to fiscal year 2014 on the annual number of children who enter and exit foster care, as well as the number of children who are in care on the last day of the fiscal year.

This fact sheet provides information about the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) for governors.

This fact sheet provides information about the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) for mental health professionals.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides information regarding the provision of Federal matching funds for the costs of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) equipment and services.