The use of GIS in child welfare improves decision making by analyzing spatial relationships that describe the interaction among people, family, community, and environment. Child welfare professionals can use GIS to visualize the placement of children and their proximity to family, recruit foster parents in specific locations, and display community resources and services. Link to Tip Sheet
Requests for Locate Services, Referrals, and Electronic Interface between Child Welfare and Child Support Information Systems
This Information Memorandum discusses several topics related to how child support and child welfare programs can improve their work, including through State child welfare agencies’ requests for location services from State child support agencies, child welfare agencies making appropriate referrals for child support services, electronic data exchanges between child welfare and child support agencies, and program authority to share information with each other. Link to pdf Info Memo
Infusing a Developmental Approach into Child Welfare Services for Infants and Toddlers
Zero to Three: A Self-Assessment Tool for States and Counties Administering Child Welfare Services As a companion piece to A Call to Action on Behalf of Maltreated Infants and Toddlers, this comprehensive assessment tool helps states and counties examine ways to embed a quality, developmental approach to serving infants and toddlers in the child welfare system, as well as meet the new federal requirements for state child welfare plans. Link to Webinar Web Page
Foster Care FY2003-FY2011 Entries, Exits, and Numbers of Children In Care on the Last Day of Each Federal Fiscal Year
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Statistics on the entries, exits, and numbers of children in foster care on September 30th of each year by state and year.
Link to pdf report
Children in Public Foster Care on September 30th of Each Year Who Are Waiting to be Adopted FY 2003–FY 2011
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Statistics on the number of children in public foster care on September 30th of each year who are waiting to be adopted by state and year. Link to pdf report
Adoptions of Children with Public Child Welfare Agency Involvement by State FY 2003–FY 2011
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Statistics on the number of adoptions of children with public child welfare agency involvement by state and year. Link to pdf Report