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Lisa Mayrose knew Florida’s Department of Children & Families needed to overhaul how it investigated phone calls reporting beaten and neglected children. “We had a rash of child deaths,” Mayrose, the regional managing director of the department in Tampa, said in an interview with The Imprint.

Today, The Imprint resumes its Focus on the Figures series with KidsData. Every other week, we will features one key indicator from Kidsdata.org, which offers comprehensive data about the health and well-being of children across California.

Every other week, The Imprint features one key indicator from Kidsdata.org, which offers comprehensive data about the health and well-being of children across California. The majority of foster children are reunified with their parents after removal from them, but across the United States about 50,000 youth each year are adopted from foster care, according to the federal Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).

Every other week, The Imprint features one key indicator from Kidsdata.org, which offers comprehensive data about the health and well-being of children across California. The rate of first entry to foster care is a figure often used to gauge the general proportion of children from different racial and ethnic backgrounds who are entering foster care.

Every other week, The Imprint features one key indicator from Kidsdata.org, which offers comprehensive data about the health and well-being of children across California. Federal law requires that children who are removed from their homes are placed in the least restrictive, most familal setting possible that will meet their needs.

A list of statistics including number of children, types of foster care living, permanency goals, foster care outcomes, average length of stay in foster care, race and ethnicity of foster children, and main reasons children enter foster care.

Every other week, The Imprint features one key indicator from Kidsdata.org, which offers comprehensive data about the health and well-being of children across California. There are many different specific reasons for the removal of a child from his or her parents.

Every other week, The Imprint features one key indicator from Kidsdata.org, which offers comprehensive data about the health and well-being of children across California. This installment of Focus on the Figures examines racial representation in California’s foster care system.

The North American Council on Adoptable Children has partnered with the State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center (SPARC) to produce a state-by-state look at key adoption trends and data. The sheets, accessible by clicking here and selecting a state from the interactive map, was created mostly from 2011 figures in the federal Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).