Child Monitoring and Security Information Archive 2019 - 8.54.43
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Objective Of Child Monitoring System
The development of goals and objectives is an iterative process wherein potential constraints or needs that may arise at any stage of monitoring design, implementation, and reporting needs to be evaluated for the potential effects on achieving the desired goals and objectives. For example, if (as is often the case) funding is not available to sample an adequate number of sites to provide the precision and power originally identified in the objective statements, then either the objectives should be revised to reflect what is realistic given funding constraints, or more funds need to be made available.
Children's Health Monitoring Information System
The Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act, enacted in 2014, amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require a state’s plan for foster care and adoption assistance to demonstrate that the state agency identified, collected, reported data on, and determined appropriate services for children in foster care who have been, or are at risk of being, sexually trafficked or who have run away. The term ‘‘sex trafficking’’ means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. The law establishes a National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth to advise the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General on practical and general policies concerning improvements to best address sex trafficking of children and youth.
This law also takes important steps in supporting normalcy for children in foster care by requiring states to implement a "reasonable and prudent parent" standard for decisions that maintain the health, safety, and best interests of the child made by a foster parent or designated official for a child care institution. Finally, the law eliminates Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement (APPLA) as a permanency goal for children under the age of 16 and includes additional case plan and case review requirements for older youth with a permanency goal of APPLA.
Additionally, the title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews, a periodic and systematic review of each State's title IV-E foster care programs are conducted by the Children's Bureau to ensure that Federal funds are expended for intended purposes and to recover improper expenditures.
The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 requires that child protective services (CPS) agencies make reasonable efforts to avoid unnecessary removal of children from their homes and to reunify foster children with their families whenever possible. "Reasonable efforts" means providing parents with useful resources that enable them to protect the child, provide a stable home environment, and promote the child's well-being.
If a child is affiliated with a federally recognized Indian Tribe, the Tribe has the right to intervene in proceedings or to petition to have the case transferred to Tribal court. ICWA also established standards for the removal of Indian children from their families and their placement in foster or adoptive homes and provided for assistance to Tribes for programs that help prevent the removal of children and the breakup of Indian families.