A Kids at Risk Action project
The systems are measured. The children are seen.
You carry the cases. These briefs carry the numbers. Each one is built from the same federal record on the data pages, with the citations attached, so that what you know from the inside can be said with the record behind it: in a staffing, in a court report, in an exit interview.
What your state's AFCARS entries and exits actually did over ten years, so you can put your unit's experience against the filed numbers instead of against a press release. When the entries line drops while your caseload does not, that gap is real and it is documentable.
Children legally free for adoption and still in care at year end, by state and year. Termination of parental rights counts run beside adoption counts, so the distance between freeing a child and placing a child is visible, not asserted.
Which figures your state did not report, shown as labeled gaps. If the fatality row says not reported, the record supports saying so out loud: the number is not zero, it is withheld.
Sources: AFCARS state tables FY2013 to FY2022; Child Maltreatment 2024 (NCANDS, Tables 3-3 and 4-1). Each brief's charts and citations download as a CC-BY pack from the state pages.