AGENCY TESTIMONY
Placement stability statistics
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ACS prioritizes placement stability for children in foster care to minimize disruptions and promote better outcomes.
- 88% of children and youth in foster care did not experience a placement change in the last fiscal year
- This statistic excludes youth who moved to kin or unified with siblings
- ACS and providers take steps to support foster parents and preserve placements when in the child's best interest
Jess Dannhauser
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Stability is also critical for children in foster care.
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ACS net providers take many steps to support foster parents and foster care placements so that it can be preserved when in the child's best interest, and children in foster care have the fewest moves possible before achieving permanency.
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Last fiscal year, excluding youth who moved to kin or unify with siblings, eighty eight percent of children youth in foster care did not experience a placement change.