CPS 4.1 Adoption - Children Waiting For Adoption on 31 August by Region with Demographics FY2014 -2023

This chart counts the number of children in DFPS custody on August 31 of the fiscal year who meet all of the following criteria:
(1) a court has terminated all parental rights;
(2) the child has a plan of adoption; and
(3) the child is not in an adoptive placement.

The count includes both children who are in an intended to be permanent home and children who are not in an intended to be permanent home. Use the filter to isolate these counts.

Children in DFPS custody are those for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through temporary or permanent managing conservatorship or other court ordered legal basis. An adoptive placement occurs when the child's caseworker, the family's case manager, and the adoptive family sign paperwork officially placing the child in the home for adoption. Before the paperwork can be signed, a child must be free for adoption (meaning a court has terminated parental rights), have a permanency goal of adoption and the family must have been approved for adoption through a licensed child placing agency.

本图表统计了在财政年度8月31日，受DFPS监护的儿童数量，这些儿童满足以下所有条件：（1）法院已终止所有监护权；（2）儿童有收养计划；（3）儿童尚未进入收养安置。统计范围包括那些将被安置在永久性家庭以及那些未被安置在永久性家庭的儿童。使用过滤器可以单独隔离这些计数。受DFPS监护的儿童是指法院已通过临时或永久监护权或其他法院命令的法律依据，指定DFPS承担法律责任。收养安置发生在儿童的社会工作者、家庭案件经理和收养家庭签署正式文件，将儿童安置于收养家庭的家中时。在签署文件之前，儿童必须处于可被收养的状态（即法院已终止监护权），并具有收养永久性目标的愿望，且家庭必须通过有资质的儿童安置机构获得收养批准。