Call in information and agenda here.
This is an information session [for tribes] for the Children’s Bureau to provide an overview/summary of the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which was published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2015
From NICWA’s press release:
A Notice of Proposed Rule Making on AFCARS was published in the Federal Register on Monday, February 9, 2015, announcing that ACF intends to change some of the AFCARS reporting requirements. The full text of this Notice of Proposed Rule Making and proposed changes can be found here and an overview is available here.
Currently, there is no requirement for states to report data related to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) as a part of AFCARS. In addition, AFCARS does not require states to identify children in their care who are eligible for ICWA’s protections. Without this data there is no national information about how and when ICWA is followed in state child welfare systems
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