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Information Memorandum (IM-20-06)

Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

This Information Memoranda (IM) provides information on best practices, resources, and recommendations for using foster care as a support for families in a way that mitigates the trauma of removal for the child and parents, expedites safe and successful reunification, and improves parent and child well-being outcomes. This Information Memorandum (IM) emphasizes the importance of state and tribal child welfare communities building and supporting relationships between resource families and parents to facilitate improved engagement of parents, promote timely reunification, build protective capacities in parents, and strengthen overall child and family well-being, while ensuring child safety.

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Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 6, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 6, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
Publisher Administration for Children and Families
Maintainer
Identifier https://healthdata.gov/api/views/appv-6mb8
Data First Published 2025-09-04
Data Last Modified 2025-09-29
Category ACF
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 009:70
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 6b1c3a33-ea42-496c-87a2-8aa0118ccdab
Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/d/appv-6mb8
Program Code 009:045
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 5919080b00c23716f1beab6e4c235d6c11ce7a613c34772cab2814bd8653d0ec
Source Schema Version 1.1

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