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    CPS 4.1 Adoption - Children Waiting For Adoption on 31 August by Region with Demographics FY2015 -2024

    Metadata Updated: March 25, 2025

    This chart counts the number of children in DFPS custody on August 31 of the fiscal year who meet all of the following criteria: (1) a court has terminated all parental rights; (2) the child has a plan of adoption; and (3) the child is not in an adoptive placement.

    The count includes both children who are in an intended to be permanent home and children who are not in an intended to be permanent home. Use the filter to isolate these counts.

    Children in DFPS custody are those for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through temporary or permanent managing conservatorship or other court ordered legal basis. An adoptive placement occurs when the child's caseworker, the family's case manager, and the adoptive family sign paperwork officially placing the child in the home for adoption. Before the paperwork can be signed, a child must be free for adoption (meaning a court has terminated parental rights), have a permanency goal of adoption and the family must have been approved for adoption through a licensed child placing agency.

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    Metadata Created Date August 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 25, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from City of Austin Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date August 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 25, 2025
    Publisher data.austintexas.gov
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2025-03-13
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-13
    Public Access Level public
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.austintexas.gov/data.json
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    Harvest Source Id 3b6df381-c8b4-40be-954e-84552dfba592
    Harvest Source Title City of Austin Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.austintexas.gov/d/65ba-vjjq
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e79496f31319d0e7bb5b908e770c860d652aea3aad939aadaae4de6644bfcff7
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