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This year’s theme “Engaging Youth. Building Supports. Strengthening Opportunities", recognizes the important role that people from all parts of child welfare play in supporting children, youth, and families and highlights the need to create a child welfare system that authentically engages and supports young people who are preparing to leave foster care.
Nominations for the 2024 Adoption Excellence Awards
The Adoption Excellence Awards recognize outstanding accomplishments in achieving permanency for America's children waiting in foster care. The nomination materials for the 2024 awards are now available.
This Report to Congress provides information on the performance of states on seven national outcome categories and also includes data on contextual factors and findings of analyses conducted across states.
New FY 2023 Children's Bureau Discretionary Grant Awards
View the Children’s Bureau discretionary grants awarded in fiscal year 2023. When available, each award includes a link and description of the expired Notice of Funding Opportunity, a list of the grant recipients, and a link to their project abstracts.
The Children’s Bureau (CB) focuses on improving the lives of children and families through programs that reduce child abuse and neglect, increase the number of adoptions, and strengthen foster care.