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There are 46% fewer child neglect cases now than when the DC Family Court Act of 2001 was passed, and more than 1,300 DC foster children have been adopted since that time.

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Kids count. Improving outcomes for children who are touched by court processes has been a Council for Court Excellence priority since its founding in 1982. CCE has employed its full toolkit on behalf of DC children: training, community education, research, evaluation, advocacy, and persistence.

Since 1983, CCE has presented 35 trainings for judges, lawyers, social workers, teachers, and other professionals on a variety of topics, including child development, child welfare, juvenile justice, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Family Court judicial selection process.

CCE's progress reports in 2002, 2004, and 2006 on the results of the Child Welfare Leadership Team's work showed a steady improvement in outcomes for the city's foster children. DC's children are now less likely to enter foster care and, if they do, more likely to return safely to their family or kin or to be adopted by a new family.

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