CPS 4.1 Adoption - Children Waiting For Adoption on 31 August by County 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八月三十一日，由DFPS（得克萨斯州儿童和家庭保护服务局）监护下的儿童数量，这些儿童符合以下所有条件：
(1) 法院已终止所有父母的权利；
(2) 孩子有领养的计划；
(3) 孩子尚未被安置在领养家庭中。

统计范围包括那些将被安置在旨在成为永久性家庭中的儿童以及那些未被安置在旨在成为永久性家庭中的儿童。请使用过滤器来隔离这些计数。

DFPS监护下的儿童是指法院已通过临时或永久的管理监护权或其他法院命令的法律依据，指定DFPS承担法定责任的孩子。领养安置发生在孩子的个案管理员、家庭个案管理员和领养家庭签署正式文件，将孩子安置在领养家庭中之前，孩子必须对领养开放（意味着法院已终止父母的权利），拥有领养作为永久目标的愿望，且家庭必须通过许可的儿童安置机构获得领养批准。