Child Monitoring and Security Information Archive 2019 - 16.05.02
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Objective Of Child Monitoring System
The Foster Care Independence Act, enacted in 1999, helps ensure that young people involved in the foster care system receive the skills that they need once they leave the system. It expanded opportunities for programs providing education, training, and employment services; counseling; housing assistance and financial support; and other services for foster youth to prepare for living on their own and to achieve self-sufficiency. It also emphasized permanency by requiring the continuation of efforts to find a permanent placement while concurrently providing independent living activities and increasing funding for adoption incentive payments.
Analysis of Lithuanian legal acts related to public health monitoring, children's health care, data collection and protection (download) Analysis of local good practice in the field of child health monitoring (download) Analysis of foreign good practice in the field of child health monitoring (download) Overview of scientific publications related to child health monitoring and health indicators (download) Preparation of the concept of model biostatistical analysis opportunities (download) Methodological manual for the child health monitoring information system (download) The model of Child health monitoring information system (download)
Generally, the law extends and expands adoption incentives through fiscal year 2013, creates options to provide kinship guardianship payments to age 21, de-links adoption assistance from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) eligibility, and provides federally recognized Indian Tribes or consortia with the option to operate a title IV-E (foster care) program, among many other provisions.
The Fostering Connections Act, enacted October 7, 2008, aims to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for Tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and accomplish other purposes.
News The Child Health Monitoring Information System is under Development in Lithuania (2015-11-09) The creators of children's health monitoring IS have gained experience in Norway (2014-11-06) The content of the new children's health certificate form No. 27-1/a was discussed with personal health care specialists (2014-10-16) A discussion was held on the development of a national information system for monitoring the health of children (2014-09-17) The essence of the project According to Health Information Centre, Institute of Hygiene, 459 359 out of 543 756 children in Lithuania under the age of 17 were experiencing some health issues in the year 2013. During the same year, a total of 1,350,426 new cases of various diseases among children were recorded, which means one adolescent had 3 episodes of health issues on average. It is well known that appropriate preventive measures result in less financial and social burden of disease. In order to properly identify incidence variation in time and space and assess effectiveness of applied preventive measures, a single state-wide children's health monitoring system is needed. The latter approach would allow the exchange of essential information about child health among many sectors, including primary health care professionals and public health professionals working in educational institutions. Currently, most data about the health status of children is available from statistical form 027-1/a (“A child health certificate”), which is filled in during annual child health screening. This data use is restricted to a municipal circle of specialists, therefore no nationwide data analysis or comparison between the regions was possible to this date. Project implementation time: 2014 - 2016 m. Total project value: 1.770.540 EUR Aim of the project Develop and implement child health monitoring information system in Lithuanian for systematic monitoring of children’s health and purposeful health policy making. Objectives of the project 1. Analyze the ongoing monitoring of children’s health in Lithuania and assess the need for additional data. 2. Develop and implement a single nationwide children's health monitoring system. Results of the project The project will result in children's health information system that will monitor the country's school-aged population and it’s changes in health. Based on the objective and detailed information, reasonable decisions in health policy can be made. Project activities 1. Methodological analysis of the models 2. Development and implementation of VSS IS.