Court Monitor Says Tennessee Foster Care System On Track With Court-Ordered Improvements

Systemic improvements made by the Tennessee Department of Children's Services (DCS) in 2013 are credited with helping DCS regain momentum towards meeting a court order to reform its child welfare system. The improvements include creating a new method of counting and examining child deaths; recruiting more foster families; and investing in ways to help foster children who age out of the system. DCS also fixed problems with its statewide automated child welfare information system called Tennessee Family and Child Tracking System (TFACTS), which has improved how caseworkers report data.

The improvements were noted in the Monitoring Report of the . . .