Sec. 5. Data collection on Adoption Disruption and Dissolution
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Section 479 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 679 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: Not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of the Supporting Adoptive Families Act , the Secretary shall, as part of the data collection system established under this section, promulgate final regulations providing for the collection and analysis of information regarding children who enter into State custody as a result of the disruption of a placement for adoption or the dissolution of an adoption, which shall require States to collect and report— information on children who are adopted within the United States or from other countries and who enter into State custody as a result of the disruption of a placement for adoption or the dissolution of an adoption, including— the number of children who enter into State custody as a result of— the disruption of placement for adoption; or the dissolution of an adoption; and for each child identified under clause (i)— as applicable, the country of birth for any child who was not born in the United States; the length of the adoption placement prior to disruption or dissolution; the age of the child at the time of the disruption or dissolution; the reason for the disruption or dissolution; and the agencies who handled the placement for adoption; and such other information as determined appropriate by the Secretary.
The information described in paragraph
(1)shall be used— to consolidate and expand the collection of information on adoption disruption and dissolution; to improve research and data collection systems in order to more accurately determine and measure the rates, outcomes, and causes of adoption disruption and dissolution; to identify pre- and post-adoptive support services (including services described in section 431(a)(8)(B)) that result in lower rates of disruption and dissolution of adoptions; to develop an understanding of the relationship between the rate of incidence of adoption disruptions and dissolutions and the support services that are provided to adoptive families in order to identify and develop effective evidence-based strategies, programs, and support services that help to prevent adoption disruption and dissolution; and to develop and enhance training and educational services regarding strategies for prevention of adoption disruption and dissolution. Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of the Supporting Adoptive Families Act , the Secretary shall, subject to subparagraph (B), establish an advisory committee to study methods to effectively collect data regarding disruption and dissolution of adoptions that are not included in the data collection system established under this section, including— data on children whose adoptions are disrupted or dissolved but do not enter into State custody as a result of such disruption or dissolution; data on adoption displacements, whereby an adopted child is temporarily placed out of the home of an adoptive parent in order to receive medical, mental health, behavioral, or other forms of treatment; and such other data as determined appropriate by the Secretary. The membership and organization of the advisory committee described in subparagraph
(A)shall be determined by the Secretary and shall include— State and child welfare agencies that are engaged in the placement of children for adoption domestically or from other countries; local and national organizations that serve adopted children and children in foster care; and members of State and local judiciary and court staff. Not later than 12 months after establishment of the advisory committee described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report containing recommendations of the advisory committee for improvement of the data collection system established under this section. . Section 479A of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 679b ) is amended— in paragraph (5), by striking and after the semicolon; in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: include in the report submitted pursuant to paragraph
(5)for fiscal year 2013 or any succeeding fiscal year, national and State-by-State data on the numbers and rates of disruptions and dissolutions of adoptions, as collected pursuant to section 479(d)(1). .
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