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APPENDIX A

Federal AFCARS Resources

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:

ACYF-CB-IM-02-05

State Guide to an AFCARS Assessment Review HTML or PDF(332 KB)