Feedback on Proposed Understanding Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability for Children and Youth Who Exit Foster Care (PAGI) Project Toolkit Resources

PAGI Toolkit Resources: Fast Track OMB

March 2022

Instrument 1: Proposed Questions

The following questions are examples of questions to be used to solicit feedback from child welfare agency staff throughout a presentation that summarizes the PAGI Toolkit resources. We will use these questions in an open discussion, chat, and polls.

• What fields would be helpful to allow you to link child IDs?

• What barriers exist to linking multiple IDs in your system?

• Are there a set of questions that should be asked at intake to identify children who re-enter foster care?

• Are you able to link the information you collect on subsidy modifications to track instability?

• What barriers exist to using and linking the subsidy information to track instability?

• When a subsidy ends prior to a child reaching the age of majority, is that information transferred to the state agency’s administrative data?

• Do you have suggestions for adapting this tool to better meet agencies’ needs? 

• Are you able to link the information you collect on services families receive to track instability?

• What barriers exist to using and linking the services information to track instability?

• What type of information have you collected in service records that could be used to track instability?

• Do you have suggestions for adapting this tool to better meet agencies’ needs? 

• Are you able to link the information you collect from well-being letters to track instability?

• What barriers exist to using the responses to well-being letters to track instability?

• Do you have suggestions for adapting this tool to better meet agencies’ needs? 

• Do you have ideas for tracking children who have experienced instability who are not in contact with the agency or that the agency knows nothing about?

• What additional obstacles are there to building an integrated data system to track instability?

• What additional information is needed to implement a comprehensive way to track instability?

• Do you have ideas for other tools that would be helpful for tracking instability?

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BURDEN: The purpose of this information collection is to help state child welfare agencies develop more systematic data systems to track instability outcomes in children who exit foster care to adoption or guardianship. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 45 minutes per respondent, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. This is a voluntary collection of information. agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB # is 0970-0401 and the expiration date is 06/30/2024. If you have any comments on this collection of information, please contact Heather Ringeisen ([email protected]).