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This document provides a summary of Child Welfare Outcomes 2021 Report to Congress.

This Report to Congress provides information on the performance of states on seven national outcome categories and also includes data on contextual factors and findings of analyses conducted across states.

This technical bulletin is a revision to the Technical Bulletin #1 that was originally published on August 19, 2019.  This revised Technical Bulletin #1 provides additional information regarding the file structure for the data elements to be submitted by IV-E agencies for each child who received IV-E prevention services, as required by FFPSA.

This report to Congress provides national totals of planned spending by service category for the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services program and planned and actual spending by service category for the Promoting Safe and Stable Families program.

This brief describes the three NYTD reporting populations and their applicable data elements and collection requirements in NYTD data files and provides a cohort-based data collection schedule for federal fiscal years 2011—2030.

The CFSR Round 4 Statewide Data Indicators Workbook provides detailed, state-by-state performance on the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) Round 4 statewide data indicators and comparisons to national performance for the most recent 12-month reporting period.

This document is a compilation of the sections of the Social Security Act related to various child welfare programs, including titles IV-B and IV-E.

Provides the schedule of the title IV-E foster care eligibility reviews for fiscal years 2024, 2025 and 2026.

The Children's Bureau Data Analytics and Reporting Team held their final AFCARS Open Office Hours for 2023. These sessions are for state and tribal program administrators, child welfare data leaders, and information system programmers. It provides an opportunity to ask questions specific to your agency's implementation of AFCARS 2020. The April session covered questions and answers, as well as updates from NCWDMS.

This short, 30-minute technical training video is created by The Children's Bureau Data Analytics and Reporting Team and gives a brief demonstration which describes basic XML concepts.