Georgia Child and Family Services Review:
January 24, 2001 State Profile Scorecard

	Data Indicator	National Standard	1999 Georgia Profile	Passing?	2000 Estimate	Footnotes
Negative Outcomes:
Safety Outcome #1	Recurrence of maltreatment in 6 months	below 6.1%	4.2%		NA	Substantiated reports on individual children. Probably accurate.
Safety Outcome #2	Foster Care Incidence of maltreatment	below 0.57%	1.1%		NA	Substantiated abuse by maltreater with relationship of "Foster parent" or "Residential Facility Staff". Ambiguity of relationships may cause under or over-reporting?
Permanency Outcome #1	Foster Care Reentry	below 8.6%	4.4%		7%	Most entries for the year (91%) were new entries. This is very high (over 65% is unusual), suggesting that some new entries may in fact be reentries. Thus, we might expect this number to be higher.
Positive Outcomes:
Permanency Outcome #2	Placement Stability, no more than 2 placements	above 86.7%	92%		95%	Children in care less than 12 months from latest removal. We suspect that many placement disruptions are not entered into the data systems. Thus, we might expect this number to be lower.
Permanency Outcome #3	Adoption Time less than 24 months	above 32.0%	23%		17%	Children exiting to a finalized adoption within 24 months of latest removal. Probably accurate.
Permanency Outcome #4	Reunification Time less than 12 months	above 76.2%	63%		74%	Reunification with caretaker within 12 months of latest removal. Probably accurate.

Recommended Reading: The State Data Profile Toolkit and particularly the Guide to Data Elements from the National Resource Center for Information Technology in Child Welfare, before making use of these data.