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Case study: Missouri’s efforts to protect children missing from foster care
Case study: Missouri’s efforts to protect children missing from foster care
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Report in brief (United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General)
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General. Office of Evaluation and Inspections, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, September 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Child, Foster -- legislation & jurisprudence
Foster Home Care -- legislation & jurisprudence
Government Regulation
Homeless Youth -- statistics & numerical data
Vulnerable Populations -- legislation & jurisprudence
Missouri
United States
United States. Department of Health and Human Services - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Why OIG Did This Review. On any given day, thousands of children nationwide are missing from their foster care placements. Children who go missing from foster care often experience adverse outcomes. In 2019, 978 children went missing at some point from foster care in Missouri. That August, OIG agents joined the Department of Justice and local law enforcement in Missouri metropolitan areas to locate children who were missing from foster care. OIG agents shared concerns that prompted this evaluation. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) provides Federal funding and oversight to States and eligible Tribes to support foster care programs. How OIG Did This Review. To follow up on OIG agents’ concerns, we evaluated whether the Missouri foster care agency followed applicable Federal and State laws, policies, and procedures to protect the 59 children whose cases we included in our review. We determined whether Missouri provided these children with required services before and after their episodes of being missing, and whether the State followed requirements when the children went missing. Additionally, we evaluated whether children were identified as having any characteristics commonly associated with a higher risk of going missing from care. This case study is not projectable to the entire population of children who went missing; however, it uses insights gained from OIG involvement in the joint law enforcement task force that point to high-risk areas for further review.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (30 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918383984906676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918383984906676