Reports & Data from Families for Kids Partnership

Here you will find reports and data from Families for Kids Partnership. Looking for regional permanency data? Scroll down and click on the map below. Washington Permanency Framework is a five-year plan (1998 - 2003) for ensuring permanent families for children in foster care developed by a statewide coalition of more than 300 individuals from 90 public and private agencies, tribes and organizations. The framework focuses on closing the gap between current outcomes and the vision of providing every children with a family to call his own. It underlines the fact that state government cannot close the gap alone, and the collaboration that continues in this work is striking. The recommended improvements focus on six strategic areas to effect significant change within the system: Expediting Permanence Kinship Families Alternate (Non-kin) Permanent Families Effective Practice with the Youngest Children Permanence for Adolescents Community Involvement Read the Washington Permanency Framework in Adobe pdf format. (183 KB) Need the Adobe Acrobat Reader? Click here. Washington Permanency Report 1998 - 2003 is a comprehensive report on the status and progress of permanency initiatives in Washington over the past five years. The report recaps the work that has been done within the five years of the Washington Permanency Framework. The Permanency Report has three sections: Strategic Actions reports on the progress made in the six critical areas identified in the Washington Permanency Framework: expediting permanence, kinship families, alternate (non-kin) permanent family, effective practice with the youngest children, permanence for adolescents and community involvement. The report describes why these are strategic areas for permanence. It addresses specific goals for each strategic action: how close we are to the goals, what has been accomplished since 1995, the beginning of the Families for Kids Initiative, and what remains to be done. Looking Towards the Future describes how the work to promote permanency will be incorporated into the plans of several groups within Washington. It also provides a brief explanation of how Families for Kids Partnership will be changing, and lists many of the available resources within the state that will help to provide foundation for the future work to achieve permanence for children. Permanency Outcomes: Year 5 reports on permanency data such as reunifications, adoptions, guardianships, disproportionality of children of color in care, length of time in stay, number of legally free children, etc. Data are provided at both the statewide and regional levels. Read the Washington Permanency Report 1998-2003 in Adobe pdf format. (1.05 MB) Washington Permanency Report 2002 reports on strategic actions by featuring a variety of innovative collaborations, programs and policies in Washington that are moving children in the foster care system to permanency. It also provides the Permanency Outcomes for Year 4 of the Washington Permanency Framework. Read the Washington Permanency Report in Adobe pdf format. (1.18 MB) Need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader? Click here. Permanency Outcomes Statewide Permanency Outcomes Data are the same elements that are seen in the 2003 Washington Permanency Report. The outcomes addressed include number of adoptions, guardianships, reunifications and legally free children over a series of years. The data includes average number placements for children in foster care as well as average lengths of time in care. Last updated: January 2004 Read the statewide permanency outcomes in Adobe pdf format. (77 KB) Need the Adobe Acrobat Reader? Click here. Regional Permanency Outcomes Data breaks the data down by region and provides more detailed information than found in the Washington Permanency Report. This section also looks at outcomes over a series of years to depict trends and progress. Last updated: January 2004 To view regional data in Adobe pdf format, please click on the appropriate region below. (72 KB each) Need Adobe Acrobat Reader? Click here. Families for Kids Lessons Learned: A National Perspective Through the Eyes of the Child is a publication authored by the project directors of the eleven Families for Kids Initiative sites across the nation. It describes the lessons learned by the project directors about motivating and mobilizing the process of change, and their collective ideas of what elements would comprise a model system of permanency. Also included are concerns for the future in child welfare and questions for national discussion and critical thinking. Read Through the Eyes of a Child in Adobe pdf format. (663 KB) Need more information? Try these links to other data and policy sources in Washington and nationwide.