2010 Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook

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Children in Out-of-Home Placement Children and Youth in Out-of-Home Placement, by Type of Setting and Age, Rhode Island, January 5, 2010 In Foster Care Homes 9% (112) Under Age 1 33% (397) Ages 1 to 5 33% (394) Ages 6 to 13 22% (269) Ages 14 to 17 3% (33) Ages 18 and Older In Group Homes and Residential Facilities* 1% (5) Under Age 1
Permanency for Children in DCYF Care DEFINITION Permanency for children in DCYF Care is the percentage of children in out-of-home care who transition to a permanent placement through reunification, adoption or guardianship. Data are for all children who were in out-of-home placement during the Federal Fiscal Year. SIGNIFICANCE The uncertainty of multiple, prolonged or unstable out-of-home placements can negatively affect children’s emotional well-being, identity formation and sense of belonging, which have an impact on behavior, academic achievement, health and longterm self-sufficiency. 1,2,3 Particular attention must be paid to populations of children for whom permanency may be more difficult to achieve, including older children, males, children with disabilities and minority children. 4,5,6 Planning for permanency requires a mix of family-centered and legal strategies designed to ensure that children and youth have safe, stable and lifelong connections with caring adults. 7,8,9 One of the goals of the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 is to promote permanency through relative or kinship guardianship and adoption. The Fostering Connections Act requires states to notify relatives when a child is placed in foster care, provides funding for states offering kinship guardianship assistance payments, provides incentive payments for adoptions of older children and children with special needs, and requires that states inform families considering adopting a foster child about the availability of the adoption tax credit. 10,11 Youth who age out of foster care experience high rates of economic hardship (inability to pay rent, utilities, etc.), low educational attainment, hunger, homelessness, unemployment, and poor physical and mental health. These youth are more likely to enter the criminal justice system, become teen parents and enroll in public assistance programs. 12 Child welfare agencies can develop systems that ensure that they are making progress in achieving youth outcomes in the areas of employment, education, housing, life skills, community connections, personal and cultural identity, physical and mental health, and access to legal information and documents, including medical and educational histories. 13 The Fostering Connections Act encourages states to extend foster care beyond age 18 by providing federal reimbursement for foster care, adoption, and guardianship assistance payments for youth up to the age of 21. 14,15 Exits from Foster Care*, Rhode Island, FFY 2009 ALL EXITS WITH DISABILITY OVER AGE 12 AT ENTRY Adoption 19% 23% 1% Guardianship 6% 2% 2% Reunification 60% 50% 70% Aged Out 10% NA** 16% Other 5% 24% 12% Total Number 1,493 470 628 Source: Safety, permanency, and well-being in Rhode Island: Child welfare outcomes annual report for FY 2009 (Draft). (2009). New Haven, CT: Prepared by the Consultation Center, Yale University School of Medicine for the Data Analytic Center of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families. Percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding. *Foster Care refers to all out-of-home placements, consistent with language used in federal reports. **Children with a disability who age out are included in the “other” category. ◆ In Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2009, 1,493 children in out-of-home placement in Rhode Island exited care. Of these, 85% exited to a permanent placement (adoption, guardianship or reunification). Children with disabilities were somewhat more likely than other children to exit to adoption and less likely to exit to reunification with their biological family. 16 ◆ In FFY 2009, 16% of children in Rhode Island who entered out-of-home placement reentered care within 12 months of a prior episode, the same as the rate in FFY 2005. Rhode Island children re-enter care at almost twice the rate of the national standard (8.6%). 17 Reunification ◆ The percentage of children in the Rhode Island child welfare system who were reunified with their family of origin in less than 12 months from the time of removal from the home decreased from 74% in FFY 2005 to 68% of children in FFY 2009. The national standard is 76% of reunifications occurring within 12 months of the child’s removal. 18 ◆ In FFY 2009, the vast majority (87%) of child maltreatment cases in Rhode Island involved neglect. 19 The greatest contributors to neglect are poverty, parental substance abuse and/or mental illness. Achieving timely and successful reunification requires access to substance abuse and mental health treatment, in-home services, parenting skills training, assistance in meeting basic needs, child care and specific strategies to decrease isolation and strengthen community supports. 20 108 2010 Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Factbook / Safety
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2010 Rhode Island Kids Count Factbo
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Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Board of Di
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Overview From: I’ll Be You and Yo
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Family and Community From: On Freed
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Table 1. Child Population, Rhode Is
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Children in Single-Parent Families
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Table 3. Grandparents Caring for Gr
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Infants Born at Highest Risk Table
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Table 5. Births by Education Level
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Racial and Ethnic Diversity Table 6
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities Econo
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities Rhode
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600 Median Family Income DEFINITION
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Cost of Housing 1300 1200 1100 DEFI
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Homeless Children DEFINITION Homele
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Secure Parental Employment DEFINITI
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Children Receiving Child Support DE
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Children in Poverty Financial Asset
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2000 Children in Families Receiving
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Children in Families Receiving Cash
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Children Receiving SNAP Benefits 75
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Women and Children Participating in
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50 Children Participating in School
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Health Make Music with Your Life by
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Children’s Health Insurance Table
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010 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 Vaccina
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Page 68 and 69: Preterm Births Table 19. Preterm Bi
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Page 74 and 75: Table 22. Lead Poisoning in Childre
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Page 80 and 81: 20 15 Childhood Obesity 10 20% 15%
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Page 87 and 88: 30 Child Deaths DEFINITION Child de
Page 89 and 90: Youth Violence DEFINITION Youth vio
Page 91 and 92: Disconnected Youth DEFINITION Disco
Page 93 and 94: Juveniles Referred to Family Court
Page 95 and 96: Juveniles at the Training School DE
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Page 99 and 100: Children of Incarcerated Parents DE
Page 101 and 102: Children Witnessing Domestic Violen
Page 103 and 104: Child Abuse and Neglect DEFINITION
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Page 111: Child of the Sun by Lillian M. Fish
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Page 134 and 135: Table 41. Kindergarten Through 12th
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Methodology The 2010 Rhode Island K
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Methodology & References Family Inc
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References 6 U.S. Census Bureau, Am
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References 13,15 Rhode Island Depar
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References 15 U.S. Department of He
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References RICHIST, 2009. 29 Safety
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References 16,21 Chang, H. N. & Agu
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Acknowledgements The 2010 Rhode Isl
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Acknowledgements Michael Burk, RI D
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Notes 180 2010 Rhode Island KIDS CO
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