Indicators: How Can You Measure Progress?
Children need safe and stable homes in order to thrive. Family instability may pose substantial risks to children and may contribute to the need for children to be placed in alternative care.
Policymakers can measure progress toward building strong and stable families by tracking the following:
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Children living in poverty
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Teen births
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Children living in households where neither parent resides
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Children under 17 without health insurance
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Rate of children entering foster care per 1,000 children
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Of the children that enter foster care, percentage that make timely, permanent exits through reunification, guardianship and adoption
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Percentage of youth in care who leave care with no permanent home (emancipation)