The NRCPFC prepared fact sheets about foster care for the National Foster Care Month campaign. For each state and the District of Columbia, you can find the following information:

• Number of children in foster care
• Average age and number of children in care by age range
• Gender
• Race/ethnicity of children in out-of-home care
• Average length of stay in care
• Percentage of children reunified with parents or primary caretakers
• Number of licensed foster homes
• Percent of youth living with relatives
• Percentage of children adopted by foster parents and by relatives
• Contact information to find out how to become a foster parent in that state

The fact sheets were updated in April 2011 with the most current available information as provided by the States.
The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections also compiled this complete listing of state foster care contacts (updated 4/11) as part of the National Foster Care Month campaign.