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This Information Memorandum (IM) provides introductory information to title IV-E tribes that choose to develop and implement an automated Child Welfare Information System. This IM contains information about how an automated system can support a tribal title IV-E agency’s child welfare program, implementing and maintaining systems, title IV-E funding, and the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS).

A discussion exploring the use of low code solutions in implementing a child welfare information system.

This issue of Child and Family Services Reviews Update contains the following sections: Year 2 of the Round 4 CFSRs Approaches, Training Consultations Available to States for 2024, Capacity Building Centers Provide a Variety of Resources, Program Improvement Planning Gets Underway, and Spanish Translations Added to Portal.

This Information Memorandum (IM) is to remind state and tribal title IV-E agencies of the school enrollment and educational stability requirements for students in foster care included in the title IV-E and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

The Children's Bureau Data Analytics and Reporting Team held an office hours session on October 30, 2023, from 3:00pm to 4:00pm ET. For this office hour, the Children's Bureau discussed high-level observations from the initial AFCARS 2020 submission, as well as observations from the first several IV-E PSD submissions. Updates to the National Child Welfare Data Management System (NCWDMS) and the revised AFCARS Technical Bulletins were also covered. This office hours served as an opportunity for states, tribes, and territories to ask questions related to either AFCARS or IV-E PSD regulatory data collection.

This document lists the recipients of the 2023 Adoption Excellence Awards and provides a brief description of each recipient’s work.

A discussion on how business process reengineering (BPR) plays an important role in helping states and agencies build systems that align with programmatic needs.

Learn how the state of California has designed and implemented an extended foster care program that improves the lives of young people in transition from foster care.

A discussion about strategies to strengthen system adoption and implementation. This webinar, co-hosted with the Capacity Building Center for States, highlights a new tool, Mapping Change and Implementation to Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) Projects, and how it may be used in different project phases.

This Program Instruction provides instructions for title IV-E agencies that opt to adopt licensing or approval standards for relative or kinship foster family homes that differ from the standards used for non-relative foster family homes.  It also provides instructions for title IV-E agencies to implement the requirement that a licensed or approved relative or kinship foster family home receives the same amount of foster care maintenance payment (FCMP) that would have been made if the child was placed in a non-related/non-kinship foster family home.