Child Welfare Services/Case Management System
Children in Out of Home Placements
Welfare Supervised
During August 2007

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 78867 61478 78.0 15306 19.4 2083 2.6
Alameda 2767 1482 53.6 1204 43.5 81 2.9
Amador 38 19 50.0 19 50.0 0 0
Butte 882 692 78.5 173 19.6 17 1.9
Calaveras 84 50 59.5 31 36.9 3 3.6
Colusa 51 19 37.3 32 62.7 0 0
Contra Costa 1582 1153 72.9 405 25.6 24 1.5
Del Norte 97 76 78.4 17 17.5 4 4.1
El Dorado 268 162 60.4 90 33.6 16 6.0
Fresno 2598 2253 86.7 319 12.3 26 1.0
Glenn 113 60 53.1 50 44.2 3 2.7
Humboldt 279 238 85.3 32 11.5 9 3.2
Imperial 425 336 79.1 84 19.8 5 1.2
Inyo 16 9 56.3 7 43.8 0 0
Kern 2612 2385 91.3 167 6.4 60 2.3
Kings 375 260 69.3 106 28.3 9 2.4
Lake 195 126 64.6 66 33.8 3 1.5
Lassen 75 42 56.0 32 42.7 1 1.3
Los Angeles 25865 22248 86.0 3015 11.7 602 2.3
Madera 305 154 50.5 150 49.2 1 0.3
Marin 83 68 81.9 11 13.3 4 4.8
Mariposa 64 30 46.9 31 48.4 3 4.7
Mendocino 333 200 60.1 124 37.2 9 2.7
Merced 671 491 73.2 172 25.6 8 1.2
Modoc 18 12 66.7 4 22.2 2 11.1
Mono 5 4 80.0 1 20.0 0 0
Monterey 472 395 83.7 54 11.4 23 4.9
Napa 92 60 65.2 24 26.1 8 8.7
Nevada 75 54 72.0 21 28.0 0 0
Orange 3541 2467 69.7 974 27.5 100 2.8
Placer 365 218 59.7 137 37.5 10 2.7
Plumas 82 43 52.4 37 45.1 2 2.4
Riverside 6125 4816 78.6 1173 19.2 136 2.2
Sacramento 4549 3454 75.9 1003 22.0 92 2.0
San Benito 83 44 53.0 38 45.8 1 1.2
San Bernardino 4835 3728 77.1 970 20.1 137 2.8
San Diego 5661 4844 85.6 428 7.6 389 6.9
San Francisco 1753 754 43.0 939 53.6 60 3.4
San Joaquin 1570 1264 80.5 286 18.2 20 1.3
San Luis Obispo 423 305 72.1 103 24.3 15 3.5
San Mateo 512 323 63.1 177 34.6 12 2.3
Santa Barbara 603 438 72.6 163 27.0 2 0.3
Santa Clara 2226 1516 68.1 646 29.0 64 2.9
Santa Cruz 346 262 75.7 78 22.5 6 1.7
Shasta 608 484 79.6 109 17.9 15 2.5
Sierra 17 0 0 17 100.0 0 0
Siskiyou 153 106 69.3 43 28.1 4 2.6
Solano 501 382 76.2 111 22.2 8 1.6
Sonoma 561 412 73.4 140 25.0 9 1.6
Stanislaus 575 461 80.2 109 19.0 5 0.9
Sutter 176 78 44.3 92 52.3 6 3.4
Tehama 269 201 74.7 64 23.8 4 1.5
Trinity 43 19 44.2 24 55.8 0 0
Tulare 1118 908 81.2 192 17.2 18 1.6
Tuolumne 110 65 59.1 39 35.5 6 5.5
Ventura 697 576 82.6 88 12.6 33 4.7
Yolo 416 145 34.9 266 63.9 5 1.2
Yuba 230 87 37.8 141 61.3 2 0.9
Unknown 279 0 0 278 99.6 1 0.4

This monthly caseload includes children whose out-of-home placement was closed, but whose placement episode record remained open for reasons deemed necessary by the social worker.
CDSS-Research and Development Division
CWS/CMS1a
Effective July 1, 2007, the CWS/CMS 1, 1a, 1b, 1c have been revised to best reflect the number of children in out-of-home placement.