Where the Children Are

EIPC has identified permanency as a critical component in positive youth development and a priority goal of early intervention and prevention. EIPC’s Where the Children Are report is a step towards informing the community about the real situation faced by a small, but important, segment of our youth community – those children who lack permanency in their home. The work of the EIPC requires the informed, collaborative engagement of each sector in our community working together towards these shared goals, and prioritize those efforts aimed at improving youth and family outcomes.

The goal of this report is to collect and share a consolidated data-centric view of the current state of child permanency in Marion County. We dive deeper into Children in Need of Services (CHINS) and out-of-home placement facilitated by the child welfare and juvenile legal systems. By understanding this data at the county and state level, we hope to develop a common understanding of the state of child permanency in our county, as well as begin to understand the circumstances of children who have been removed from one environment to be placed in another, thereby potentially disrupting their overall situation of permanency.