This site provides information and resources on the entire Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) process. You can access Children’s Bureau guidance and announcements, state-specific CFSR information, the E-Learning Academy (ELA), and the Online Monitoring System (OMS).
To advance the Make America Healthy Again agenda at ACF, the ACF Children’s Bureau (CB) has sharpened the child welfare focus on a simple goal—to have homes waiting on kids, not kids waiting on homes. ACF’s new A Home for Every Child initiative will allow CB and jurisdictions to prioritize matters that safely decrease the number of children entering foster care through effective prevention, while also increasing the number of foster homes through diligent recruitment, prioritizing kin, and improving retention of existing caregivers. More information on the initiative can be found here: A Home for Every Child
A new training video, Applying Case Review Information to Rating Criteria Questions in the OSRI, is now available on the Round 4 E-Learning Academy. The video focuses on applying information from the case record and case-related interviews to specific Rating Criteria in the Onsite Review Instrument and Instructions (OSRI). It also explores how to address issues related to missing or conflicting information in a case review.
Technical Bulletin (TB) #14 is now available. The changes outlined in this TB aim to maintain state accountability for achieving meaningful outcomes for children and families, enhance transparency and public accountability, reduce administrative burden, and provide states with greater flexibility to innovate and build capacity to manage and improve child welfare systems and outcomes, centered around the goal of A Home for Every Child.
The ACF Webinar: A Home for Every Child Initiative and CFSR Technical Bulletin #14 recording and slides are now available.
The Children’s Bureau developed a new publicly available dashboard that displays states’ performance on the statewide data indicators (SWDI). See Round 4 Resources - Statewide Data Indicators for more information and how to access the dashboard.
Technical instructions are now available. These technical instructions provide specific definitions and measurement criteria for the CFSR A Home for Every Child (AH4EC) Program Improvement Plan (PIP) pilot program described in Technical Bulletin #14 (TB #14). These technical instructions also include descriptions of the data required for the Core Measure (the home-to-child ratio) and 4 Chaser Measures (wraparound measures) mentioned in TB #14.
Additionally, the template spreadsheet is now available. This spreadsheet is intended for importing data into the new AH4EC Data Tool in the Round 4 OMS. State editors can also download this spreadsheet directly from the "Import monthly data" page of the AH4EC Data Tool.