This Executive Summary describes how Electronic Record Systems (ERSs) - electronic health records, personal health records, and similar technology solutions that facilitate the management, sharing, and use of information - can benefit children in foster care, and the systems that serve them. The full Issue Brief profiles state and local ERS efforts for the foster care population, highlighting early evidence of the efforts' impact and outlining lessons learned. It also provides recommendations for actions to expand the reach of ERSs to benefit greater numbers of children in foster care and, potentially, other children and families.

Download the Executive Summary (PDF, 216 KB)

Download the Issue Brief (PDF, 516 KB)

Download a One-Page Overview of How Technology is Being Used to Improve the Lives of California's Foster Care Youth (PDF, 92 KB)