Child Welfare Services/Case Management System
Total Children in Supervised Out of Home Placements
By Placement - During April 2008

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 83,825 62,804 74.9 18,500 22.1 2,523 3.0
Alameda 3,046 1,485 48.8 1,479 48.6 82 2.7
Amador 35 17 48.6 18 51.4 0 0
Butte 942 702 74.5 216 22.9 24 2.5
Calaveras 78 48 61.5 27 34.6 3 3.8
Colusa 50 13 26.0 37 74.0 0 0
Contra Costa 1,649 1,097 66.5 531 32.2 21 1.3
Del Norte 131 99 75.6 28 21.4 4 3.1
El Dorado 290 184 63.4 91 31.4 15 5.2
Fresno 2,864 2,483 86.7 362 12.6 19 0.7
Glenn 106 62 58.5 42 39.6 2 1.9
Humboldt 326 270 82.8 49 15.0 7 2.1
Imperial 522 361 69.2 151 28.9 10 1.9
Inyo 18 5 27.8 13 72.2 0 0
Kern 2,701 2,343 86.7 299 11.1 59 2.2
Kings 388 246 63.4 135 34.8 7 1.8
Lake 217 120 55.3 96 44.2 3 1.4
Lassen 105 45 42.9 57 54.3 3 2.9
Los Angeles 29,055 23,930 82.4 4,086 14.1 1,039 3.6
Madera 318 161 50.6 156 49.1 1 0.3
Marin 107 58 54.2 44 41.1 5 4.7
Mariposa 63 33 52.4 27 42.9 3 4.8
Mendocino 317 194 61.2 114 36.0 9 2.8
Merced 673 487 72.4 178 26.4 8 1.2
Modoc 17 10 58.8 6 35.3 1 5.9
Mono 5 4 80.0 1 20.0 0 0
Monterey 519 405 78.0 104 20.0 10 1.9
Napa 119 62 52.1 52 43.7 5 4.2
Nevada 78 57 73.1 20 25.6 1 1.3
Orange 3,570 2,420 67.8 1,074 30.1 76 2.1
Placer 338 192 56.8 141 41.7 5 1.5
Plumas 78 38 48.7 37 47.4 3 3.8
Riverside 5,816 4,418 76.0 1,267 21.8 131 2.3
Sacramento 4,687 3,374 72.0 1,185 25.3 128 2.7
San Benito 113 55 48.7 57 50.4 1 0.9
San Bernardino 4,944 3,794 76.7 1,020 20.6 130 2.6
San Diego 5,899 4,888 82.9 677 11.5 334 5.7
San Francisco 1,740 719 41.3 949 54.5 72 4.1
San Joaquin 1,642 1,202 73.2 392 23.9 48 2.9
San Luis Obispo 492 329 66.9 150 30.5 13 2.6
San Mateo 498 263 52.8 221 44.4 14 2.8
Santa Barbara 673 468 69.5 204 30.3 1 0.1
Santa Clara 2,121 1,363 64.3 678 32.0 80 3.8
Santa Cruz 369 247 66.9 112 30.4 10 2.7
Shasta 642 505 78.7 119 18.5 18 2.8
Sierra 21 1 4.8 20 95.2 0 0
Siskiyou 179 118 65.9 57 31.8 4 2.2
Solano 515 374 72.6 132 25.6 9 1.7
Sonoma 646 450 69.7 180 27.9 16 2.5
Stanislaus 652 504 77.3 142 21.8 6 0.9
Sutter 178 88 49.4 84 47.2 6 3.4
Tehama 299 201 67.2 95 31.8 3 1.0
Trinity 45 21 46.7 22 48.9 2 4.4
Tulare 1,138 869 76.4 247 21.7 22 1.9
Tuolumne 118 66 55.9 46 39.0 6 5.1
Ventura 744 604 81.2 113 15.2 27 3.6
Yolo 437 154 35.2 273 62.5 10 2.3
Yuba 208 98 47.1 107 51.4 3 1.4
Unknown 284 0 0 280 98.6 4 1.4

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/CMS1
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.