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Pennsylvania
Statistics on children, youth and families in Pennsylvania from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children
Foster Care - Children served during reporting period by latest placement setting in Pennsylvania
Foster Care - Children served during reporting period by latest placement setting
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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.
because one or more years have been deselected.
Why This Indicator Matters
Children should be placed in the most family-based setting, ideally being placed with kin. Foster family settings continue to be the leading placement setting, with rates of placement with relative foster care increasing since 2010.
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Definition and Source
PROVIDER
Definition
Shows the latest placement setting that children were in during the reporting period. Placement settings are the different environments that children can be placed in when they enter the foster care system. Pre-adoptive settings, as well as foster family settings (both relative and non-relative) are family-based placement settings. Group homes and institutions are more restrictive placement settings and are often referred to as congregate care settings.
Data Source
PPC analysis of AFCARS longitudinal file produced by Public Consulting Group for Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Office of Children, Youth and Families.
Notes
Statistics (rates, ratios, percents) are not calculated and displayed for counts less than 10 (or less than 3 for Bayesian/Nearest Neighbor rates). This is due to the unreliability of statistics based on small numbers of events.
Updated October 2022.
Updated October 2022.
Last Updated
October 2022