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<DIV><FONT size=2><A href="mailto:melissa.brodowski@acf.hhs.gov";></A></FONT></DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>FYI</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subject: Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005 Available Online</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005 is now available online</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005: Report to Congress is the seventh in a series of reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) designed to inform Congress, the States, and the public and to promote improvement in the delivery of child welfare services. The Child Welfare Outcomes Reports provide information about each State&#8217;s performance on seven national outcomes related to the safety, permanency, and well-being of children involved in the child welfare system. These outcomes reflect widely accepted performance objectives for child welfare practice.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In addition to the 12 original measures used in previous reports, Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005 presents data on four new composite measures (including 15 individual measures) developed for the second round of the Department&#8217;s Child and Family Services Reviews that began in March 2007. These composites were developed in consultation with State child welfare administrators, legislators, child advocacy organizations, and other child welfare experts.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Child Welfare Outcomes Reports are required under the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which was designed to reform child welfare practice, enhance accountability, and focus attention on the results of child welfare services.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The report is available online only at:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cwo05/index.htm</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">For more information, contact Child Welfare Information Gateway at 1.800.394.3366 or info@childwelfare.gov.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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