Assistant Secretary Adams joins the podcast to discuss the "A Home for Every Child Initiative," and how modernizing child welfare systems with predictive algorithms and automated tools…

New funding from the Administration for Children and Families is designed to upgrade IT systems used by state and local child welfare systems.

The Administration for Children and Families launched new interactive map to help states move faster on child welfare prevention plans.

Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana and Tennessee are on performance improvement plans, designed to reduce the number of children entering foster care and make more homes available.

Many agencies worry their data isn't clean enough, but proponents of predictive algorithms said they've seen them produce favorable outcomes in child welfare.

After $12 million of development over two years, Arkansas cut its losses on attempted upgrade to its child welfare platform.