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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Children’s Bureau (CB) is responsible for the implementation and management of the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and…
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This Program Instruction (PI) provides State, Territorial, and Tribal title IV-E agencies with the renewed form and instructions approved by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for reporting quarterly…
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The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to inform title IV-E agencies that a final rule was published amending the AFCARS regulations to require state title IV-E agencies to collect and report data elements…
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This letter from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families provides guidance to child welfare leaders about recent and upcoming policies regarding educational stability for children in foster care.…
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This Information Memoranda (IM) provides State, Tribal and Territorial title IV-E agencies an updated Title IV-E Plan Pre-Print for the Foster Care Assistance, Adoption Assistance, Guardianship Assistance and Kinship…
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This document discusses how to handle the uncommon situation in which reviewers may receive a case that was opened for both in-home services and foster care during the period under review. Metadata-only record linking…
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This report describes the results of the 2019 subsequent primary review of Minnesota’s Title IV-E foster care program. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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This report describes the results of the primary review of Utah's Title IV-E foster care program. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to inform title IV-E agencies that a NPRM was published proposing to amend the AFCARS regulations to require state title IV-E agencies to collect and report data…
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ACF Children Bureau resource Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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This webinar, featuring Dr. Jacqueline Bertrand and Dr. Rebecca Wolf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), describes programs and materials available from the CDC that can assist foster and adoptive…
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This report provides a national snapshot of youth preparing to transition from foster care during FFY 2011 Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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This webpage includes the documentation from Florida's Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2012: AFCAR Assessment Review Findings - Letter (PDF) (PDF - 78…
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This webpage includes the documentation from Connecticut's Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2012: AFCAR Assessment Review Letter AFCARS Assessment Review…
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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 purpose of the manual is to assist others…
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This Program Instruction provides instructions for title IV-E agencies that opt to adopt licensing or approval standards for relative or kinship foster family homes that differ from the standards used for non-relative…
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This Program Instruction (PI) notifies States of the new policy and procedures regarding the collection of funds resulting from penalties being assessed due to a State’s substantial failure to meet the Adoption and…
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This reviewer brief provides instructions on how to calculate, for the purposes of the CFSR, the “15 out of the 22 most recent months” provision for determining whether to file a termination of parental rights (TPR) for…
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This report describes the results of the subsequent primary review of New Jersey’s Title IV-E foster care program. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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This Program Instruction (PI) disseminates the revised Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Review Guide, reflecting changes in title IV-E eligibility requirements enacted through the Family First Prevention Services Act…