Provided through the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, AFCARS collects case level information on all children in foster care for whom State child welfare agencies have responsibility for placement, care or supervision, and on children who are adopted under the auspices of the State's public child welfare agency.

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009

This annual report by The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics presents a comprehensive look at critical areas of child well-being, including statistical indicators of trends in education, health status, behavior and social environment, and economic security.
Download the report.
Access reports from previous years.

This website brings together data on the well-being of children collected by Kids Count grantees from state and local sources. Users can access state-specific inventories of data from local sources, such as health departments, human services agencies, and schools. Users have access to raw data and can generate graphs, maps, rankings, and regional or state profiles.

Child Trends Databank is the one-stop-shop for the latest national trends and research on over 80 key indicators of child and youth well-being. The DataBank includes statistics and information on such issues as social and emotional development, poverty and income, and education and skills.

The Child Welfare League of America’s State Fact Sheets provide descriptive information on the condition of vulnerable children in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, using indicators of child protection, health, child care, education, and income support.
View 2009 State Fact Sheets.
View 2008 State Fact Sheets.
View 2007 State Fact Sheets.

This HUD report, released in June 2010, provides the latest counts of homelessness nationwide, including counts of individuals, persons in families, and special population groups, such as veterans and chronically homeless people. The report also covers the types of locations where people use emergency shelter and transitional housing; where people were just before they entered a residential program; how much time they spend in shelters over the course of a year; and the size and use of the U.S inventory of residential programs for homeless people.
Download The Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (July 2008)
Download The Second Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (March 2008)
Download The Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (February 2007)

The National Center for Education Statisics (NCES) is the primary federal entity responsible for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States.

The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) is dedicated solely to ending America's affordable housing crisis. NLIHC strives to achieve this goal by working in four program areas: public education, organizing, research, and policy advocacy. One particularly useful area of their website is their Congressional District Profiles page, where they provide housing affordability data for renter households in each congressional district by state.

The National Survey of Programs and Services for Homeless Families, hosted by the Institute for Children and Poverty, is an online resource for service providers, advocates, researchers, and public policy makers working in the field of family homelessness. It provides a state-by-state snapshot of the interconnections between governmental, nonprofit, and voluntary sector work to end family homelessness. It also provides nationwide and local demographics of family homeless populations and information about the funding sources available to them.

This is the 2009 edition of the annual survey provided by the United States Conference of Mayors. It is a status report on hunger and homelessness in the United States based on a 27-city survey.
2008 Survey
2007 Survey
2006 Survey
2005 Survey
2004 Survey
2003 Survey
2002 Survey
2001 Survey

This one-page primer provides statistics on the on-time graduation of students in Virginia in 2009. Data is disaggregated by various subgroups, including students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students, and students experiencing homelessness.

In 2007, the California Research Bureau conducted a survey in which homeless and formerly homeless youth completed 208 interviews with their currently and formerly homeless peers across the state in order to find out about their experiences, the services they need, and the changes they would like to see happen in policy or law. This report presents the survey responses and findings.