The first and second metrics presented in this report are those that describe the proportion of children that
reach particular permanency outcomes and the timeliness of achieving those outcomes for children in out‐ofhome
care. While similar data is available in the OCFS Foster Care Data Packets, this data differs in that this
report includes all children in out‐of‐home care, including those living with relatives, while the OCFS report
includes only those children living in licensed foster care homes or OCFS facilities. The difference in population,
plus the fact that the data comes from two completely different databases accounts for any variance between
the information presented in the two reports.