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POLICY DOCUMENTATION
Federal Regulation: 45 CFR 1355.40
Children's Bureau's Child Welfare Policy Manual, Section 1, AFCARS.
(Information previously published in the two AFCARS Policy Interpretation Questions (PIQ) Issuances.)
ACYF-PI-CB-95-09 (REVISED), issued 5/23/95
Methods of Extracting Data for Submission to AFCARS
ACYF-CB-IM-00-04, Issued March 30, 2000
Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Re-issuance of Technical Bulletins.
ACYF-CB-IM-02-03, issued April 8, 2002
Decision regarding AFCARS Penalties, AFCARS File Name
ACYF-CB-IM-02-05, issued April 22, 2002
AFCARS Assessment Reviews
ACYF-CB-IM-04-04, issued February 17, 2004
Adoption Incentives and AFCARS Penalties
TECHNICAL BULLETINS
Technical Bulletin #1: ACF Electronic Data Transmission,
Technical Bulletin #2: AFCARS File Format (Revised April 2002)
Technical Bulletin #3: Optional Explanatory Footnotes and Questions to Guide Footnote Preparation
Technical Bulletin #4: Encryption Guidelines & Algorithms for State Use
Technical Bulletin #5: Record Identifier Encryption/Decryption Utility
Technical Bulletin #6: FC Data Element Standards
Technical Bulletin #7: Adoption Data Element Standards
Technical Bulletin #8: State Data Compliance Utility
Technical Bulletin #9: Data Quality Utility Version 1.0
Technical Bulletin #10: Receipt of AFCARS Report
Technical Bulletin #11: Acceptance Test Guidance
Technical Bulletin #12: AFCARS State Frequency Report Utility Version 1.0
SOFTWARE UTILITIES
Encryption/Decryption in C and COBOL
Data Compliance Utility
Data Quality Utility
Frequency Utility
WEBSITES
Children's Bureau: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/
AFCARS web page: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm#afcars
National Resource Center for Information Technology in Child Welfare: http://www.nrccwdt.org
OTHER RESOURCES
NRC-CWDT AFCARS Toolkit
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Attachments:
State Guide to an AFCARS Assessment Review HTML or PDF(332 KB)