This PII grantee program manual provides detailed information about the implementation process of the Washoe County Department of Social Services (WCDSSS) Safety Assessment Family Evaluation—Family Connections (SAFE-FC) program. Its purpose is to assist others in the field in replicating or adapting SAFE-FC for their local use. Readers will find background information, lessons learned, and other practical information based on the experience of the WCDSS team. The manual can be especially helpful if you are considering implementation of the intervention, interested in addressing the needs of similar target populations, or interested in lessons learned from real-world implementation experiences. Together, the PII program manuals help to build a base of replicable interventions that can serve the complex needs of diverse communities of children and families. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) program provides formula grants each year to states, territories and approximately 135-145 tribes. The purpose of this program is to prevent child maltreatment and the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve the quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanency for children by reuniting them with their parents, or by promoting adoption or another permanent living arrangement. Funding may be used to develop, establish, or expand, and to operate coordinated programs of community-based family support services, family preservation services, family reunification services, and adoption promotion and support services. The statute also reserves funding for other grants and activities, including Regional Partnership Grants (RPGs); state grants for caseworker visits; Court Improvement Program grants; evaluation, research, and technical assistance. In fiscal years (FYs) 2018 — 2024 the appropriations for PSSF also included funding to help title IV-E agencies develop, expand or evaluate kinship navigator programs. The PSSF program receives both mandatory and discretionary appropriations. FY 2024 Funding: These funds, along with the Child Welfare Services funds are a small but integral part of State social service systems for children and families who need assistance in order to keep their families together. These funds, often combined with State and local government as well as private funds, support the parenting and healthy marriage classes that increase relationship skills within the family, the home-visiting services for young parents with first babies and other family-based services, respite care for caregivers of children with special needs and numerous other unique and innovative programs and services that local communities rely on for at risk families. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

This publication highlights the efforts of current and former child welfare discretionary grant recipients to develop and implement effective family engagement strategies. Family engagement initiatives described in the document include family navigators, parent cafés, parent and youth advisory councils, and reforms to permanency planning, case management, and agency communication processes. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides information on the procedures for Establishing Adoption and Guardianship Baselines to Implement the Presidential Initiative, Adoption 2002 and the Requirements of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

This joint Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) and DSS presentation describes the use of the Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) in child welfare cases, and provides guidance on defining and reporting Automated Functions, as defined by Federal Regulations 45 CFR 1355.53, as part of Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) Advance Planning Document (APD) submissions, as defined by Federal Regulations 45 CFR 1355.52(i) and Federal Regulations 45 CFR 95.611. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS), a service operated by the Office of Child Support Services (OCSS), may be accessed by state child welfare agencies to locate and notify parents and other relatives of a child placed in foster care. The FPLS may also be used to locate youth who have exited foster care to provide services or for purposes of completing the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) survey. CB and OCSE jointly published an Information Memorandum (ACYF-CB-IM-12-06) that discusses the FPLS, child support information available to state child welfare agencies, and related topics. State child welfare agencies may request FPLS information several ways including: Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction on Assisted Guardianship Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Projects and Categorical Eligibility for Medicaid for Title IV-E Eligible Children. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to remind title IV-E agencies that for all adoption assistance agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2024, eligibility for title IV-E adoption assistance must be determined using the “applicable child” eligibility criteria described in section 473(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the Act. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) provides the Administration for Children and Families' Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) with information for child support purposes, pertaining to parents for whom state child support agencies have requested FPLS conduct a locate. As part of FPLS this process contains two distinct exchanges, the Direct Request Locator Information File (DRLIF) and Earnings System Keyed Applications for SSN Registration Identification (ESKARI). In the DRLIF process, on a daily basis, OCSE submits a finder file of known SSNs to SSA to identify employer address information for up to ten recent employers the person has been employed by over the past four years as well as wage amounts. In the ESKARI process, on a daily basis OCSE submits finder files of unknown SSNs to SSA in order to identify the SSNs which will then be recycled back into the DRLIF process for normal processing.