Search state statutes to learn how your state the requires, encourages, allows, or fails to address concurrent planning.
This report presents a broad overview of the barriers between children and a permanent home, and how state legislators can help to promote permanency.
This issue brief provides preliminary estimates of what the potential costs to government and the benefits to young people would be if states extend foster care to age 21.
The purpose of this research brief is to describe the perspectives and experiences of judges in making decisions around termination of parental rights.
This brief summarizes the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, and identifies future legislative opportunities for reform in federal child welfare financing.
This report provides information organized by state on the number of children aging out of the foster care system, and explores recommendations for preventing youth from aging out of foster care.
This is the first policy recommendation report written entirely by CCAI’s 2008 Foster Youth Internship Class. It includes problem statements and recommendations on topics such as social worker professional development, foster parent recruitment, adoption incentives, aging out, and sibling rights.
This glossary of useful terms gives a brief history and defines terms such as de-linking, Title IV-E, Aging Out, Independent Living, and ASFA.
This paper gives a background on where child welfare has come from and where it is going in the 111th Congress. Topics discussed include foster parent recruitment and retention, child welfare workforce development, youth aging out, federal financing of foster care, federal support of guardianship and kinship, disproportionate number of minorities in foster care, and heath care for children in foster care.
This factsheet is meant to introduce readers to the child welfare system. The report explains what happens when abuse or neglect is reported, screening, entering foster care, and includes additional resources for learning more information about the system.
This fact sheet provides numbers and trends based on data from Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS). Data analyzed includes FY 2000 through FY 2005. This report is useful for learning how to understand AFCARS data.
This study examined staffing issues, state agency vacancy and turnover rates, and recruitment and retention strategies. A copy of the survey presented to public agencies is included.
This report looks at factors such as burnout, low pay, high turnover and other factors that have contributed to the staffing crisis in child welfare. The report studied several cities around the U.S. and offered suggestions for improving the workforce.
This report addresses problems that arise from the unprecedented rise in the number of children in out-of-home care over the past two decades. Problems addressed include high worker caseloads, disproportionate representation of children of color, among others.
This report to Congressional committees examines an increase in funding DC’s Child and Family Services Agency received in an effort to improve the quality of services the 3,000 children in its care were receiving. GAO recommends that CFSA address the issues of its caseworkers and foster parent recruitment and retention.
This paper provides a full legislative history and background of the U.S. child welfare system.
This report examines characteristics of children in foster care, their experiences, and their living situations, as well as the experiences of the families who come in contact with the child welfare system. This report includes many tables, graphs, and charts to show the data analyzed.
This paper was written by a Hunter College School of Social Work student and examines the struggles of youth exiting foster care, and provides a look at model problems, as well as useful links about the issue.
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