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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 77,483 58,519 75.5 16,652 21.5 2,314 3.0
Alameda 2,778 1,400 50.4 1,294 46.6 84 3.0
Amador 43 21 48.8 21 48.8 1 2.3
Butte 907 667 73.5 221 24.4 19 2.1
Calaveras 81 55 67.9 23 28.4 3 3.7
Colusa 35 8 22.9 27 77.1 0 0
Contra Costa 1,476 1,005 68.1 449 30.4 22 1.5
Del Norte 107 79 73.8 22 20.6 6 5.6
El Dorado 313 197 62.9 110 35.1 6 1.9
Fresno 2,686 2,335 86.9 336 12.5 15 0.6
Glenn 121 64 52.9 56 46.3 1 0.8
Humboldt 274 228 83.2 40 14.6 6 2.2
Imperial 497 311 62.6 177 35.6 9 1.8
Inyo 19 3 15.8 16 84.2 0 0
Kern 2,414 2,107 87.3 248 10.3 59 2.4
Kings 330 195 59.1 126 38.2 9 2.7
Lake 198 115 58.1 80 40.4 5 2.5
Lassen 97 51 52.6 45 46.4 1 1.0
Los Angeles 27,217 22,416 82.4 3,796 13.9 1,005 3.7
Madera 278 156 56.1 122 43.9 0 0
Marin 90 49 54.4 37 41.1 4 4.4
Mariposa 56 30 53.6 22 39.3 4 7.1
Mendocino 292 203 69.5 83 28.4 6 2.1
Merced 755 586 77.6 158 20.9 11 1.5
Modoc 22 14 63.6 7 31.8 1 4.5
Mono 9 6 66.7 3 33.3 0 0
Monterey 468 345 73.7 115 24.6 8 1.7
Napa 103 58 56.3 40 38.8 5 4.9
Nevada 78 47 60.3 31 39.7 0 0
Orange 3,447 2,309 67.0 1,069 31.0 69 2.0
Placer 342 173 50.6 164 48.0 5 1.5
Plumas 84 45 53.6 35 41.7 4 4.8
Riverside 4,708 3,647 77.5 948 20.1 113 2.4
Sacramento 4,738 3,459 73.0 1,150 24.3 129 2.7
San Benito 116 48 41.4 67 57.8 1 0.9
San Bernardino 4,453 3,445 77.4 893 20.1 115 2.6
San Diego 5,213 4,456 85.5 502 9.6 255 4.9
San Francisco 1,715 724 42.2 922 53.8 69 4.0
San Joaquin 1,499 1,128 75.3 335 22.3 36 2.4
San Luis Obispo 434 286 65.9 134 30.9 14 3.2
San Mateo 440 241 54.8 184 41.8 15 3.4
Santa Barbara 652 475 72.9 177 27.1 0 0
Santa Clara 1,843 1,209 65.6 565 30.7 69 3.7
Santa Cruz 338 243 71.9 90 26.6 5 1.5
Shasta 682 533 78.2 134 19.6 15 2.2
Sierra 12 1 8.3 11 91.7 0 0
Siskiyou 199 131 65.8 60 30.2 8 4.0
Solano 459 345 75.2 107 23.3 7 1.5
Sonoma 573 384 67.0 171 29.8 18 3.1
Stanislaus 626 480 76.7 136 21.7 10 1.6
Sutter 156 71 45.5 80 51.3 5 3.2
Tehama 278 192 69.1 85 30.6 1 0.4
Trinity 34 12 35.3 22 64.7 0 0
Tulare 1,000 787 78.7 193 19.3 20 2.0
Tuolumne 111 64 57.7 42 37.8 5 4.5
Ventura 750 625 83.3 103 13.7 22 2.9
Yolo 397 163 41.1 227 57.2 7 1.8
Yuba 184 92 50.0 89 48.4 3 1.6
Unknown 256 0 0 252 98.4 4 1.6

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-Administration 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.