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    • The Federal Parent Locator Service

    Metadata Updated: September 7, 2025

    The Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS), a service operated by the Office of Child Support Services (OCSS), may be accessed by state child welfare agencies to locate and notify parents and other relatives of a child placed in foster care. The FPLS may also be used to locate youth who have exited foster care to provide services or for purposes of completing the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) survey. CB and OCSE jointly published an Information Memorandum (ACYF-CB-IM-12-06) that discusses the FPLS, child support information available to state child welfare agencies, and related topics.

    State child welfare agencies may request FPLS information several ways including:

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date September 7, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 7, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 7, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 7, 2025
    Publisher Administration for Children and Families
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://healthdata.gov/api/views/nui9-5yys
    Data First Published 2025-09-03
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-05
    Category ACF
    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
    Harvest Object Id 34b80f54-c51d-427c-bbfd-9e1d75f5aa42
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/d/nui9-5yys
    Program Code 009:045
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bc3bb74fbbed3ee72569058a7ce98217e840d51f3eedf90d93d5b0a46edc59ab
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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