Social Welfare Policy

Advocates for Children of New Jersey

Select National & State Facts tab.
Child Welfare League of America

Published: January 14, 2021 Children's Bureau, Office for the Administration of Children & Families

March 2019 Child Welfare Information Center

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), June 5, 2015, pages 565-569-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Published: June 13, 2018

Data by state, across states and more. Annie E. Casey Foundation

Create reports, tables from KIDS COUNT data.

This site contains federal and state adoption, foster care, and child maltreatment statistics and reports. An excellent resource!

Use this site to build custom charts, tables, by state, etc.

"The Child Trends DataBank is an online resource for indicators of child and family well-being and associated measures. The DataBank includes close to 100 population-based measures, covering the domains of health and safety, child care and education, and behaviors linked to positive and negative well-being."

The Children of Immigrants Data Tool presents data on a number of population groups of children defined by the children nativity and citizenship and the nativity, citizenship, and origin of their parents, such as children with immigrant parents, children with noncitizen parents, etc.

Statistics provided includes DYFS demographics, workforce and caseload data, children's behavioral health, and outcomes data. See the links in the navigation bar on the left as well.

See State Profiles and Data Tools. The latter page includes data wizards which allow the user to build custom tables.

The Institute produces a wide range of resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health. There are statistics on adolescents.

Gateway to statistics found in these annual reports from the Department of Education: The Condition of Education, Digest of Education Statistics, High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, and Projections of Education Statisti

To help programs and policies better serve low-income Hispanic children and families, the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families Center was launched in 2013. Site includes interactive data tools-hover over Publications & Resources, select the "interactive data tools" link.. Its work focuses on early care and education, healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood, and poverty and economic self-sufficiency.

"...an interactive tool that highlights the aspects of communities that are associated with safe children and strong families. This interactive, research-based framework is composed of select U.S. Census Bureau indicators and is available for any community in the nation to use."

The NDACAN facilitates the secondary analysis of research data relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is following a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents).

The National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) is part of The Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism (ANF) multi-year research project. Its purpose is to track the effects of recent federal policy changes decentralizing many social programs from the federal government to the states.