Outcome Data

Alabama and Washington D.C/Maryland offer many programs that serve children and families. Below is Outcome Data from 1998 to May 2017 by Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. and its Specialized Foster Care Program.

Successful Discharges

The data below shows the total number of children that had a successful discharge.

State	Adoption	Reunification	Independent	Total
AL	158	685	163	1006
DC	21	28	14	63
MD	58	124	43	225
Total	237	837	220	1294

Adoptive PFT

The data below shows the total number of PFT who adopted children. As companywide, 146 PFT are adoptive homes.

Eighty nine (89) of the PFT adopted one (1) child and fifty seven (57) adopted more than two (2) children.

State	One Child	More than 2 Children	Total
AL	58	38	96
DC	12	3	15
MD	19	16	35
Total	89	57	146

Outcome Information

PFT Homes – Since the year of 1998, SFH, Inc. licensed over 1,268 homes

512 Homes were Married Couple
882 Homes were single female
39 Homes were single male

State	Couple	Single Female	Single Male	Total
AL	429	699	31	1159
MD	14	26	3	43
DC	69	157	5	231
Total	512	882	39	1433

Children Admission By Level Of Care

Since the year of 1998, SFH, Inc. has admitted into care over 2,789 children:

2320 children were therapeutic
736 children were traditional
1407 children were admitted into other programs (MF, MIP & Others).

State	TFC	TRA	MF	MIP	Others	Total
AL	1817	514	113	25	1146	3615
MD	172	2	2	176
DC	331	220	85	36	672
Total	2320	736	198	63	1146	4463

Children Admission By Race

2759 children were African American
1400 children were Caucasian
304 children were from other races

State	African American	Caucasian	Other Races	Total
AL	1996	1383	266	3615
MD	147	16	13	176
DC	646	1	25	672
Total	2759	1400	304	4463

Children Admission By Age

1948 children were under 12 years old
2515 children were above 12 years old

State	< 12 Years	>=12 Years	Total
AL	1633	1982	3615
MD	32	144	176
DC	283	389	672
Total	1948	2515	4463

Children Admission By Length of Stay

3293 children stayed in care less than a year
915 children stayed in care less than two (2) years
255 children stayed in care more than two (2) years

State	0 Year	1-2 Years	+ 2 Years	Total
AL	2714	702	199	3615
MD	153	19	4	176
DC	426	194	52	672
Total	3293	915	255	4463

Children Discharges (TFC, TRA, MIP & MF)

948 children were reunited with their birth family
262 children were adopted – Note: (81%) children were adopted by SFH, Inc.’s PFT.
249 children went to Independent Living Program

State	Adoption	Reunification	ILP	Successful	Total
AL	169	765	176	604	1714
MD	3	26	19		48
DC	90	157	54		301
Total	262	948	249	604	2063

Specialized Foster Care

Children with Special Needs

SFH, Inc. served a total number of 97 children with Special Needs.

State	Special Needs
AL	50
DC	47
SFH, Inc	97

The graph below shows the total number of children with Special Needs by year. According to the graph, the maximum number of children with Special Needs served was during the year of 2008 and 2011.

SFH, Inc. served a total of 97 children with Special Needs; 45 (39%) of these children are currently in care with SFH,

36 (31%) Children were adopted, reunified or emancipated and 34 (30%) children were unsuccessfully closed.

State	Adoption	Reunification	ILP	Total
AL	4	6	1	11
DC	9	14	2	25
SFH, Inc	13	20	3	36

Conclusion

52% of special needs children are successfully discharged.

92% of special needs adoptions were done by SFH’s PFT’s

Child Well Being

Children Served During the year of 2011

Gender & Program Breakdown	AL	DC	Baltimore
# of Female Children Served	162	67	18
# of Male Children Served	189	60	7
# of Medically Fragile served	28	23
# of Permanency Reunification served	143
# of Mothers and Infants served	6	4	1
# of Therapeutic	133	56	24
# of Traditional Children	41	44
# of children that came from a more restrictive placement	65	38	4
# of children that came from a less restrictive placement	286	89	21

Racial Breakdown of Children Served	AL	DC	Baltimore
African American	186	124	21
Bi-racial	16
Caucasian	141		4
Caucasian	6	3
Caucasian	2

Average Age at Admission	AL	DC	Baltimore
0-5	57	31	1
6-10	79	24
11-15	110	28	11
16-18	80	20	9
19 & Over	25	18	4

Well-Being	AL
# of Children enrolled in school	56
# of Children in Licensed Homes	100%
# of children with current medical screenings	70
# of children with extracurricular activities	12
# of children employed?	2

Permanency Programs

In 2006, Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. (SFH) was selected by the Alabama Department of Human Resources (ADHR) to participate in a permanency pilot in Jefferson County, Alabama. The focus of treatment was to establish a permanent, safe and nurturing family for every child in the program. Each child had been in out-of-home care for extended periods of time due to their needs or the needs of their parents, which in most cases were psychological, physical, behavioral or substance-abuse related.

After a successful pilot, SFH awarded a second permanency contract in 2008. The contract was expanded to include both reunification and preservation services in Jefferson County and several other Alabama counties. The permanency program provides intensive in-home services to families to facilitate the transition of youth that are ready to return home or to another permanent living arrangement from their out-of-home placement or to maintain children in their own home, when there is a possibility of imminent disruption.

Also in 2008 SFH, was awarded a contract by ADHR for Continuum of Care (COC) Services. In the COC program, SFH provides intensive services to families and children to prevent out–of-home placement. When out-of-home placement is necessary, we work to achieve a less restrictive and less intensive level of care while providing intensive services to the family and the child in order to expedite permanency for the child.

In 2011, SFH was awarded a contract by ADHR for the Permanency Reunification Continuum (PRC). SFH was granted 62 slots to address permanency needs for children and families across the state of Alabama. The contract requires SFH to maintain an 82 percent success rate with reunification within 1 year. SFH provides intensive in-home services in a direct, face-to-face format to facilitate the transition of the children from their out-of-home placement to their original home or to another permanent living arrangement.

In 2017, SFH was awarded a contract by ADHR for the Intensive In Home Services (IIHS). SFH was granted 61 slots to address permanency needs for children and families across the state of Alabama. The contract requires SFH to maintain an 82 percent success rate with reunification within 6-9 months. SFH provides intensive in-home services in a direct, face-to-face format to facilitate the transition of the children from their out-of-home placement to their original home or to another permanent living arrangement.

To date, SFH has served 538 children and families in our Permanency Reunification Continuum program, and has discharged a total of 455 children and families. SFH has taken 387 children and families out of the system’s care and helped them return home and/or achieve permanency. Our collective permanency success rate is 85 percent, which exceeds the contract requirement set forth by ADHR. The average length of service for consumers is 204 days or less than 7 months. This is a huge achievement for Alabama’s children and their families.