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Maryland State Out-of-Home Placement
Pursuant to the 2025 Joint Chairmen’s Report - FY 2026 Operating and Capital Budgets (Pages 321-323), the Governor’s Office for Children, in coordination with child-serving agencies, prepared this report and a publicly available data dashboard to document the State’s capacity for and utilization of out-of-home placements, analyze the costs associated with out-of-home placements, facilitate an evaluation of statewide family preservation programs, and identify areas of need across Maryland.
For the purpose of this report, child-serving agencies provided “served data” for FY 2025 (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025). Served data includes all cases that were open at the beginning of the month as well as new cases that were opened during the month. The served data accounts for all children served in out-of-home care regardless of the removal end date. Note that the data reported in the dashboard is static and represents the data on the day it was extracted; action with respect to placements subsequent to that date will not be represented.
Questions about Out-of-Home Placement? Contact Christina Drushel Williams at [email protected].
