Foster Care - Children served during reporting period by placement goal in Pennsylvania
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Why This Indicator Matters
Court-ordered goals define the permanency option for child, and ideally should be with the focus of resulting in a family-based setting. Reunification and adoption continue to be the leading permanency goals.
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Data Provided By
Definitions: The number and percent of children in out of home placement during the reporting period by the goal set for children in foster care.
Data Source:
PPC analysis of AFCARS longitudinal file produced by Public Consulting Group for Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Office of Children, Youth and Families.
Footnotes:
Statistics (rates, ratios, percents) are not calculated and displayed for counts less than 10 (or less than 3 for Bayesian/Nearest Neighbor rates). This is due to the unreliability of statistics based on small numbers of events.
Updated October 2022.