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- Foster Care Race Statistics | The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The share of children who are Black and in foster care is the lowest it has been in two decades Even so, Black children are still overrepresented among youth in foster care relative to the general child population
- Adoption - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
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
- SOUL Family Permanency Option - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The SOUL Family framework can be used by states to create an additional permanency pathway that includes a circle of caring adults who provide support, opportunity, unity and legal relationships for young people ages 16 and older as they move from foster care to adulthood
- What Happens to Youth Aging Out of Foster Care?
Understanding Aging Out of Foster Care All children, especially older children in foster care, need and deserve a loving family to support their lifelong growth
- Child Welfare and Foster Care Statistics - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Our nation’s child welfare system strives to protect children from maltreatment, support families in crisis, keep children safely with their parents when possible, provide temporary out-of-home care for children when needed and ultimately ensure that children have safe, permanent homes with their families, relatives, adoptive par
- Adoptions From Foster Care - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Children waiting for adoption; by amount of time waiting; by age group; by race and ethnicity; Children exiting foster care to adoptions and other reasons; Children in the child welfare system who have been adopted; by age group; by pre-adoptive relationship with adoptive parents; by race and ethnicity
- Foster Care - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
There are four ways children can leave foster care for permanent homes: Reunification with birth parents or primary caregivers, adoption, guardianship, and placement with relatives Among children exiting foster care each year, nearly half — about 100,000 kids in 2021 — are reunited with a parent or primary caretaker
- Youth in Transition (Aging Out) - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
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