Foster Care Colorado Statistics. Social services agencies are always in need of families who are willing to care for children with special needs sibling groups older youth and young people who speak a different. A calendar year is the basis for data from the census bureau.
Toughest cases get more attention but. Most of the other data on these pages are from the national child abuse and neglect data system ncands or the adoption and foster care analysis and reporting system afcars and are based on the federal fiscal year october 1 through september 30. By most recent estimates nearly 2 000 children identify as hispanic but only 450 foster families identify similarly.
Stephen was adopted from foster care as a teenager in colorado.
In addition colorado has about 600 black children in the foster care system with 200 black foster parents and 28 kids of american indian or native alaskan backgrounds but only 10 parents. Stephen was adopted from foster care as a teenager in colorado. Department of health and human services is a system for collecting data on children in foster care and children who have been adopted under the auspices of the state child welfare agency. Foster care is a temporary home where adults provide a safe home for children and teens because their parents need time to learn new skills to become the parents their children need them to be.
