CPS 2.7 Children in DFPS Custody on August 31 with Permanency Goals by County FY2014-2023

Whenever CPS removes a child from his or her home and places the child in substitute care, staff must engage in permanency planning on behalf of the child to ensure that the child can return the child’s family if and when this can be accomplished or be placed permanently with an alternative family, preferably a kinship family, as soon as possible.

Federal and state law provide only four acceptable permanency goals: Family Reunification, Adoption, Permanent Managing Conservatorship to a relative or suitable individual or Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement.

These counts do not reflect all children in DFPS Legal Responsibility on August 31, only those with a permanency goal.

每当儿童保护服务机构将儿童从其家庭中移除并安置于替代照料场所时，工作人员必须代表儿童进行永久性规划，以确保儿童能够在条件允许的情况下重返家庭，或者尽快被永久性地安置于其他家庭，尤其是亲属家庭。联邦和州法律仅规定了四种可接受的目标：家庭团聚、收养、将永久监护权授予亲属或合适个体，或另设计划中的永久居住安排。这些数据并不反映8月31日DFPS法律责任下的所有儿童，仅包括具有永久性目标的儿童。