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    • Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Trends Chart and Table

    Metadata Updated: April 4, 2026

    The AFCARS Trends Chart tracks children in Foster Care from FY 2002 through the most recent year. A table of data and a graphic depiction of trends are shown for children in care on the first day of the year, entries to foster care, exits, children waiting to be adopted, children adopted, children with terminations of parental rights, and total children served in foster care.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 4, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 4, 2026
    Publisher Administration for Children and Families
    Maintainer
    Identifier 186960c3-830b-4181-9c12-b965b051047f
    Data First Published 2013-01-18
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-26
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:70
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 25ab500f-53fd-4cde-93c8-fde3809e6486
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/adoption-and-foster-care-analysis-and-reporting-system-trends-chart-and-table
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:101
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 676e1109b9c4e101e195153beaa573ea652da13d15a77856a32c3d6e53484bf2
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2010-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2011-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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