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Re-Entry into Care

When children must be removed from their families, DCYF strives to move them into permanent homes as quickly as is safely possible and to support reunification and other permanency goals so that children do not return to out-of-home care. In state fiscal year 2022, 4.7 percent of children who exited out-of-home care to permanency through reunification or guardianship re-entered care in the following 12 months. The national performance, which is the standard to which DCYF is held, is 5.6 percent or less. DCYF monitors re-entry into care as a balancing indicator for safely reducing the number of children and youth in out-of-home care.

Children Who Re-Enter Care within 12 Months of Exit, SFY 2010-2022

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Screened-In CPS Intake or Placement within 12 Months of Case Closure, by Closed Case Type, SFY 2016-2023

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Strategic Priority Balancing Indicator

Safely Reduce the Number of Children and Youth in Out-of-Home Care by Half

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