Foster home development: New federal reporting requirements and how the Data Center helps states respond
The Center for State Child Welfare Data delivers foster home reporting infrastructure states can use—quickly, reliably, and at scale. Building on decades of experience, the Center for State Child Welfare Data at Chapin Hall has engineered a data capture and reporting infrastructure for foster home capacity that enables states to come into federal compliance quickly. The results free agency leaders to focus their time on managing the foster care system rather than managing reporting requirements. Designed to align with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expectations, the Center’s standardized point-in-time framework produces monthly counts of active foster homes, licensed bed capacity, homes with children placed, unoccupied homes, and average children per home. The reporting also clearly identifies children placed in kinship settings and those placed in group homes or residential care—metrics that are increasingly central to federal oversight, Family First implementation, and state accountability. What distinguishes this work is… Read more >