Adoption - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Apr 2, 2019 · Adoption is a legal process that permanently transfers parental responsibility from a child's birth parents to their adoptive parents. After reunification, it is the next most secure permanency option for children in foster care. In 2021, one in four children exiting foster care — around 53,300 kids in the United States — were adopted.
Youth in Transition (Aging Out) - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
All children — and especially older children in foster care — need and deserve a loving family with no expiration date. Yet, in the United States, about 20,000 youth exit foster care and are left to fend for themselves each year. This scenario — leaving foster care without achieving permanence — carries lifelong consequences. Youth who ...
Foster Care - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Foster care is a temporary living situation for children whose parents cannot take care of them. While in care, children may live with relatives, with foster families or in group facilities. There are four ways children can leave foster care for permanent homes: Reunification with birth parents or primary caregivers, adoption, guardianship, and ...
What Is Foster Care — the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Feb 6, 2014 · Foster care is meant to be a temporary solution that ends once a parent can get their life back on track or a relative, guardian or adoptive family agrees to raise the child involved. Research has shown — again and again — that every child needs a solid and unshakable attachment to at least one parenting adult ...
A Blueprint for Embedding Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare
Sep 17, 2018 · Summary. Informed by best practices in implementation science, this report outlines a process for integrating evidence-based and evidence-informed programming into child welfare systems. It offers guidance on assessing and selecting interventions, establishing and sustaining implementation teams, developing and aligning implementation structure ...
Kinship Care - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Kinship Care. Across the nation, 3% of all kids — more than 2.5 million children — are in kinship care. In this arrangement, relatives raise kids when their parents cannot care for them. There are three general and sometimes overlapping categories of kinship care. These categories are: 1) private or informal care, where families make ...
Extended Foster Care Explained - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
May 24, 2021 · Extended Foster Care Explained. Updated May 20, 2023 | Posted May 24, 2021. By the Annie E. Casey Foundation. On any given day, the U.S. foster care system includes more than 390, 000 children and youth. Most young people are unprepared to live on their own as soon as they turn 18. For kids in foster care, independence with ...
What Is Kinship Care? - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Feb 6, 2014 · By the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Kinship care is when relatives step up to raise children when their parents can’t care for them for the time being. Today, more than 2. 5 million children are in kinship care in the United States. If you were raised by a grandparent, an aunt or a close friend, you were raised under kin ...
Child Protection - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Child Protection. Public child welfare agencies typically offer four main sets of services — child protection, family-centered support, foster care and adoption. Child protection teams are focused on assessing and investigating potential cases of child abuse and neglect and intervening when appropriate. In 2020, the number of confirmed ...
Child Welfare and Foster Care Statistics
May 16, 2022 · This post provides the latest statistics on child welfare in the United States, focusing on foster care statistics, from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Data Center, a robust source of the best available data on child well-being in the nation. KIDS COUNT includes state-by-state data on child abuse and ...