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Table 1: Ten States at Least Doubled Annual Average Adoptions
after ASFA 12
Table 2: Length of Stay for All Children Exiting Foster Care, Fiscal
Year 1998-Fiscal Year 2000 15
Table 3: Length of Stay for Children Adopted From Foster Care,
Fiscal Year 1998-Fiscal Year 2000 16
Table 4: Number of Foster Care Placements for All Children
Exiting Foster Care, Fiscal Year 1998-Fiscal Year 2000 17
Table 5: Number of Foster Care Placements for Children Adopted
From Foster Care, Fiscal Year 1998-Fiscal Year 2000 18
Table 6: Exit Destinations for All Children Leaving Foster Care,
Fiscal Year 1998-Fiscal Year 2000 19
Table 7: Percentage of Children Who Re-enter Foster Care after
Reunifying with Their Families, Fiscal Year 1998-Fiscal
Year 2000 20
Table 8: Race/Ethnicity of Children Adopted from Foster Care,
Fiscal Year 1998-Fiscal Year 2000 21
Table 9: Ages of Children Adopted from Foster Care, Fiscal Year
1998-Fiscal Year 2000 22
Table 10: Fiscal Year 2000 Data From Four States That Responded
to Survey Questions on Their Use of ASFA's Fast Track
Provision 24
Table 11: Fiscal Year 2000 Data from Nine States That Responded
to Survey Questions on Their Use of ASFA's 15 of 22
Provision 27
Table 12: Reasons for Not Filing a TPR for a Child Who Had Been
in Foster Care for 15 of the Most Recent 22 Months in
Fiscal Year 2000, Based on Seven States That Responded
to Survey Questions on the 15 of 22 Provision 31
Table 13: Main Uses of Adoption Incentive Payments and PSSF
Adoption Promotion and Support Services Funds 33
Table 14: Approved Child Welfare Demonstration Waivers and Key
Dates 49
Figure
Figure 1: Number of Children Adopted from Foster Care between
Fiscal Year 1995 and Fiscal Year 2000 11GAO-02-585 Adoption and Safe Families Act
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United States. General Accounting Office. Foster Care: Recent Legislation Helps States Focus on Finding Permanent Homes for Children, but Long-Standing Barriers Remain, report, June 28, 2002; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc290961/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.