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Child Welfare (General)
- Child Welfare Outcomes Report Data Website Updated with 2007–2010 Data
The Child Welfare Outcomes Report Data website (a section of the Children’s Bureau website) is now refreshed with data from 2007 through 2010. The site makes available the latest statistics from National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) for you to view in a variety of ways according to your needs. The website's report builder allows you to select: Specific State(s), data, and data years to view; how the data is displayed: graph, table, or map outputs; data to make comparisons and analyses across States.
- Child Welfare Outcomes 2003-2006: Report to Congress
This publication is the eighth in a series of reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The report is designed to inform Congress and professionals in the child welfare field about the current performance of the States on several measures of outcomes for children served by child welfare systems throughout the country. The outcomes address the safety, permanency, and well-being of the children, and focus on widely accepted performance objectives for child welfare practice. Child Welfare Outcomes 2003-2006 is solely available in electronic format at the Children's Bureau's website. Here you can find the full report, along with an 8-page Executive Summary.
Foster Care, Adoption and Guardianship
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National Adoption and Foster Care Statistics: AFCARS
The Adoption and Foster Care Reporting and Analysis System (AFCARS) collects case level information on all children in foster care for whom State child welfare agencies have responsibility for placement, care or supervision, and on children who are adopted under the auspices of the State's public child welfare agency. Updated AFCARS data are now available on the Children’s Bureau’s website.
The following documents have been updated or added:
- State Specific Foster Care Statistics (Foster Care FY 2002- FY2009 Entries, Exits, and Numbers of Children In Care on the Last Day of each Federal Fiscal Year), based on data submitted by states as of July 2010
- Children in Public Foster Care on September 30th of Each Year who are Waiting to be Adopted (FY 2002 – FY 2009)
This document provides a breakdown of the number of children in public foster care waiting to be adopted by State for each year (2002-2009). These data reflect all AFCARS submissions received by August of 2010. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau. (August 2010)
Reports on Child Abuse and Neglect
- Child Maltreatment Reports
Annual reports that show state-by-state data on child abuse and neglect from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data Systems.
- Child Abuse and Neglect State Briefs
These state-by-state fact sheets are from Fight Crime: Invest in Kids.
- Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect
The National Incidence Study (NIS) is a congressionally mandated, periodic effort of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The principal objectives of the NIS–4 were to provide updated estimates of the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the United States and measure changes in incidence from the earlier studies. The NIS serves as the nation’s needs assessment on child abuse and neglect. It offers a unique perspective on the scope of the problem beyond the children that child protective service (CPS) agencies investigate. While the NIS includes children who were investigated by CPS agencies, it also obtains data on other children who were not reported to CPS or who were screened out by CPS without investigation. These additional children were recognized as maltreated by community professionals. Thus, the NIS estimates include both abused and neglected children who are in the official CPS statistics and those who are not. The fact that there have been three previous cycles using comparable methods and definitions means that one can compare NIS–4 estimates with those from the earlier studies in order to identify changes over time in the incidence and distribution of abused and neglected children. (2010)
- Interactive Map: U.S. Rates of Child Abuse Fatalities
The federal government estimates child deaths from maltreatment using reports from law enforcement, child protection agencies and the judicial system. But federal officials say that not all child deaths come to their attention, and they have urged states to work with local agencies to get more comprehensive information. Hover over a state on this map on the National Public Radio website to see its estimated number of child deaths in 2007, as well as its rate of fatalities per 100,000 children. (March 2010)
Reports on Child Well-Being
- America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being
Each year since 1997, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics has published a report on the well-being of children and families. The Forum alternates publishing a detailed report, America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, with a summary version that highlights selected indicators. This year, the Forum is publishing America's Children in Brief; it will publish the more detailed report in 2009. The Forum updates all indicators and background data on its website every year.
- National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being
The NSCAW makes available nationally representative longitudinal data drawn from first-hand reports from children, parents, and other caregivers, as well as reports from caseworkers, teachers, and data from administrative records. This national study will examine child and family well-being outcomes in detail and seeks to relate those outcomes to their experience with the child welfare system and to family characteristics, community environment, and other factors. The study will describe the child welfare system and the experiences of children and families who come in contact with the system.
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2010 State Fact Sheets and National Fact Sheet
These fact sheets from the Child Welfare League of America provide descriptive information on the condition of vulnerable children in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, using indicators of child protection, health, child care, education, and income support. A National Fact Sheet is also available. The website also includes fact sheets from previous years, beginning in 2000.
- Youngsters' Mental Health And Psychosocial Problems: What Are the Data?
This report from UCLA's Center for Mental Health in Schools details and evaluates the existing data from research on the prevalence and incidence of these problems and defines the research in this area that remains to be done. Includes some interesting data about children in foster care and kinship care including the information that preschoolers receiving mental health services were almost twice as likely as older children to be living with kin caregivers or foster parents – “a finding which means that caretakers who are not parents may need supportive services to ensure timely and appropriate help for the children in their care.”
Webcasts
- Webcasts from the 9th National Child Welfare Data and Technology Conference
The following sessions are now available to view:
- AFCARS 201: States' Information Systems and AFCARS Data
Presenter: Angelina Palmiero (Children's Bureau/ACF)
This workshop will provide participants with examples of different approaches States have taken to collect certain elements in the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) and the pros and cons of these approaches from an AFCARS data quality perspective. Topics to be covered include: the relationship between AFCARS and SACWIS (or other State developed child welfare information systems); the nuances of the AFCARS questions for implementation; common errors identified through AFCARS TA, AFCARS Reviews, and experience.
- CFSR Round 2: Data Quality and Measures
Presenter: Sharon Newburg-Rinn (Children's Bureau/ACF)
Without data, you are just another person with an opinion. Accurate child welfare data are critical to the Children and Family Services Review process, especially as we begin to enter the second round of the CFSR with changes afoot. Do you know which data elements are critical to the calculation of your State's performance? Learn this and other valuable information.
Websites
- National Data Analysis System
NDAS at the Child Welfare League of America is an online interactive database. Individuals can access a variety of state data on subjects including adoption, out of home care, child abuse and neglect, child care services, children's heatlh, juvenile justice, outcomes, and more. In addition, NDAS produces publications on child welfare data.
- ChildStats.gov
This is the official web site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child & Family Statistics. It
offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population
and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
- KIDS COUNT
This project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.
- National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis. NDACAN supports information-sharing through its electronic mailing list and Updata newsletter and provides training opportunities to researchers through conference workshops and its annual Summer Research Institute. NDACAN is a project of the Family Life Development Center located in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Funding is provided by a grant from the Children's Bureau.
- Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health
National, regional and state data from the National Survey of Children's Health and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs.
- University of New England, Master of Social Work Program
This webpage includes A Child Abuse Statistics and Research Reference Guide for Social Workers, with links to data on Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities: Statistics; Child Maltreatment; Male Perpetrators of Child Maltreatment; and, School-Based Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs. It also offers a Child Welfare and Foster Care Statistics and Research section with links to data on Child Welfare Outcomes; Foster Care National Statistics; Adoption Statistics; and, Sources of Related National Data.
Statistics From Other Countries
- Great Britain: Child Welfare Statistics in Great Britain
This website from the United Kingdom's Department for Education and Skills contains reports on "looked after" children (those in foster care and other placements) as well as those on child protection registers.
- Scotland: Children Looked After Statistics 2006-07
This publication contains statistics on children who were looked after by or eligible for aftercare support from local authorities between 1st April 2006 and 31st March 2007.
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