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Child Welfare Federal Performance Measures Dashboard

Welcome to the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) Child Welfare Public Dashboard.

The reports shown on this dashboard are based on the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) Round 4 Federal Measures. This dashboard is prepared by the Office of Reporting, Research, Analytics and Implementation (ORRAI) using Oregon Child Welfare data.

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General information

​​​Entered Care: Children are considered to have entered care on the date they were removed from their home and started their first placement with Child Welfare.

In Care: Children are in care from the time they are removed from their home and placed in care until they are discharged.

Discharged: Children are considered discharged based on the federal definition which is either the date the child is no longer in state custody or the date six months after the child returned home, whichever comes first.

Permanency: Permanency is defined as a discharge to reunification, guardianship, living with other relative or adoption.

Reunification: Reunification is defined as when a child has a trial home visit that results in discharge from care.​​​

Federal measures definitions

This report shows summary data for the federal measure of children that enter foster care during a year review, what percentage achieved permanency in 12 months of entry. Masking is applied for all counts under 5 and for counties with total population under 20.

If a child discharges to reunification or other relative, the time on a trial home visit exceeding 30 days is subtracted from the length of stay in foster care to determine if the outcome was met or not met. ​

​Exclusions

  • If a child turns 18 while in foster care before discharging, they are excluded from the Met population, even if they discharged to one of the Permanency discharge reasons after turning 18 and in less than 12 months of entry.
  • Youth who enter foster care on or after age 18.
  • Foster care episodes that are less than 8 days.
  • If there are multiple removals for a child in the 12-month period, only the first episode in the period will be included.​

Calculation

  • Numerator: Of the children counted in the denominator, those who discharged to permanency within 12 months of entering foster care and before turning age 18

Divided by

  • Denominator: Number of children who entered care in 12-month period.​

National Standard: 35.2% or higher​​

Unknown worker assignments, assignments to central office, Office of Training and Investigative Services (OTIS) and Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (ORCAH) are all showing in the “Other” category for County.

Masking is applied to protect privacy if any count is below 5 or the county base population (denominator) is below 20.​​​​​

This report shows summary data for the Federal measure as a percent of children in foster care 12 to 23 months as of the first day of a period and achieved permanency in 12 months. Masking is applied for all counts under 5 and for counties with total population under 20.​

Exclusions

  • ​Youth who are age 18 or older on the first day of the 12-month period.

Calculation

  • Numerator: Of children counted in the denominator, children who discharged to permanency within 12 months of the first day of the 12-month rolling period and before turning age 18​

D​i​vided by

  • Denominator: The total number of children in foster care on the first day of a 12-month rolling period who had been in foster care between 12 and 23 months.​

National Standard: 43.8% or higher​​

Unknown worker assignments, assignments to central office, Office of Training and Investigative Services (OTIS) and Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (ORCAH) are all showing in the “Other” category for County.​

Masking is applied to protect privacy If any count is below 5, or the county base population (denominator) is below 20.​

This report shows summary data for the percent of children that discharged to permanency within 12 months of the first day of the 12-month period who had been in care for 24 months or more. Masking is applied for all counts under 5 and for counties with total population under 20.​

Exclusions

  • Youth who are over the age of 18 or more on the first day of the 12-month period.

Calculation

  • Numerator: Of children counted in the denominator, children who discharged to permanency within 12 months of the first day of the 12-month rolling period and before turning age 18

Divid​ed by

  • Denominator: The total number of children in foster care on the first day of a 12-month rolling period who had been in foster care more than 24 months.

National Standard: 37.3% or higher​​

Unknown worker assignments, assignments to central office, Office of Training and Investigative Services (OTIS) and Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (ORCAH) are all showing in the “Other” category for County.​

Masking is applied to protect privacy If any count is below 5, or the county base population (denominator) is below 20.​

​​​​This report shows summary data for the CFSR Round 4 federal measure of children who enter foster care in a 12-month target period and discharged within 12 months to reunification, living with a relative(s) or guardianship, what percent re-entered foster care within 12 months of discharge.

12-Month Target Period: The first 12 months of the 2-year measurement period presented in 12-month periods. Example: If end of observation period September 2024, then the summary data returned would be for the time evaluated between 10/1/2022 and 9/30/2023.

Exclusions

  • Youth discharged from foster care on or after turning age 18.
  • A child can be counted more than once if they had more than one removal episode. If there are multiple times a child re-enters within 12 months of their discharge, only the first reported re-entry to foster care will be counted as a re-entry.

Adjustments

  • The time in trial home visits exceeding 30 days is subtracted from the length of stay in foster care if the child discharges to reunification or other relative.

Calculation

  • Numerator: Of the number of children entering foster care, those who re-entered foster care within 12 months of their discharge from foster care

Divided by​​

  • Denominator: Number of children who entered foster care in a 12-month period and discharged within 12 months to reunification, living with other relative or guardianship.

National Standard: ​5.6% or less

Unknown worker assignments, assignments to central office, Office of Training and Investigative Services (OTIS) and Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (ORCAH) are all showing in the “Other” category for County.​

Masking is applied to protect privacy If any count is below 5, or the county base population (denominator) is below 20.​

Report shows summary information for the federal measure of maltreatment in foster care defined as: The rate of victimization per 100,000 days of foster care of all children in foster care during a rolling 12-month target period.

Rolling 12 Month Target Period: ​The target period is the rolling 12-month period that ended on the report period end date.

Count of Founded Reports: Count of founded reports during the rolling 12-month period where the report received date was during the time the child was in a foster care episode lasting 8 days or more (time in trial home visit is included) minus founded reports where:

  • the child was age 18 or more at the time of the report;
  • the incident date of the report occurred outside of the removal episode (even if the report date is within the episode);
  • ​the report occurred within the first seven days of removal; or
  • a subsequent report occurred within one day of initial report.

Count of Days: total number of days the child was in foster care (including days in trial home visit) minus the number of days where:

  • ​the child was age 18 or over
  • days in foster care episodes lasting less than 8 days​

Calculation

  • Numerator: Of the total number of children counted in the denominator, the total number of founded reports of maltreatment (by any perpetrator) during any foster care episode within the rolling 12-month period

Divided b​y

  • Denominator: Of children in foster care during a 12-month period, the total number of days these children were in foster care during the rolling 12-month period.​

Multiplied by 100,000.

National Standard: 9.01 victimizations per 100,000 days in care​​ or less

Unknown worker assignments, assignments to central office, Office of Training and Investigative Services (OTIS) and Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (ORCAH) are all showing in the “Other” category for County.

Masking is applied to protect privacy If any count is below 5, or the county base population (denominator) is below 20.​

This shows summary data for the federal measure of recurrence of maltreatment defined as: Of all children who were victims of a founded report of maltreatment during a 12-month target period, which children were victims of another founded maltreatment allegation within 12 months of their initial report.

12-Month Target Period: The first 12 months of the 2-year measurement period ending in the reporting period.

Report Dates: The report date (received) will be used to determine if a child is counted in the 12-month target period (regardless of disposition date) and is used to determine whether maltreatment recurrence occurred within 12 months of the founded maltreatment that occurred during the target period.

Adjustments/Exclusions

  • Subsequent reports will not be counted as a recurrence if the subsequent report of maltreatment was within 14 days of the earlier report or if it has the same incident date (if provided) as the earlier report.
  • Reports of youth age 18 or more are excluded from the calculation of the indicator.

Calculation

  • Numerator: Of children counted in the denominator, the number of children that had another founded report of maltreatment within 12 months of their initial report

Divided by​​​​

  • Denominator: Total number of children with at least one founded report of maltreatment in a rolling 12-month target period.

National Standard: 9.7% or less

Unknown worker assignments, assignments to central office, Office of Training and Investigative Services (OTIS) and Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (ORCAH) are all showing in the “Other” category for County.​

Masking is applied to protect privacy If any count is below 5, or the county base population (denominator) is below 20.​

This is a summary report for the federal measure of placement stability defined as: Rate of placement moves per 1,000 days of foster care for all children who enter foster care in a 12-month target period.

12 Month Target Period: ​The target period is the 12-month period that ends on the report period end date.

Count of Days: This measure counts only the number of days the children were in foster care during the 12-Month period (including days in trial home visit and days across removal episodes) minus exclusions noted below.​

For youth who enter foster care at age 17 and turn 18 during the period, and adjustment is made for time in foster care beyond the 18th birthday and placement changes after that date.​

Exclusions:

  • Youth who enter care at age 18 or older, or who are age 18 or older on the first day of the 12-month period, are excluded from indicator calculations.
  • Children in foster care for less than eight days.
  • Days in foster care for which the AFCARS file does not have placement information. The initial removal from the home (and entry into foster care) is not counted as a placement move.​

Placement Moves: Only placement settings that are required to be counted in AFCARS file are used. If the child is moved to a living arrangement or setting that would not result in the state increasing the number of placement settings reported in AFCARS, those moves are not included (e.g., trial home visit episodes, runaway episodes, respite care and changes in a single foster family’s home status to reflect a licensing change from a foster care home to a home dually licensed for adoption).

Cumulative Across Episodes: Both the days in care and placement moves are counted even when the child is in multiple removal episodes in the same year.

Calculation

  • Numerator: Of children counted in the denominaton, the total number of placement moves during the 12-month period​

Divided b​y

  • Denominator: Of children who entered foster care in a 12-month period, the total number of days these children were in foster care during the rolling 12-month period

​Multiplied by 1,000.

National Standard: 4.12 moves per 1,000 days in foster care

Unknown worker assignments, assignments to central office, Office of Training and Investigative Services (OTIS) and Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (ORCAH) are all showing in the “Other” category for County.​

Masking is applied to protect privacy If any count is below 5, or the county base population (denominator) is below 20.​