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

County Total In
County
%
In
County
Out
of
County
%
Out
of
County
Out
of
State
%
Out
of
State
California 81,092 60,842 75.0 17,762 21.9 2,490 3.1
Alameda 2,911 1,449 49.8 1,382 47.5 80 2.7
Amador 34 17 50.0 17 50.0 0 0
Butte 933 688 73.7 221 23.7 24 2.6
Calaveras 74 49 66.2 22 29.7 3 4.1
Colusa 40 12 30.0 28 70.0 0 0
Contra Costa 1,544 1,037 67.2 483 31.3 24 1.6
Del Norte 119 87 73.1 27 22.7 5 4.2
El Dorado 288 179 62.2 98 34.0 11 3.8
Fresno 2,879 2,502 86.9 360 12.5 17 0.6
Glenn 116 69 59.5 45 38.8 2 1.7
Humboldt 310 263 84.8 41 13.2 6 1.9
Imperial 501 344 68.7 149 29.7 8 1.6
Inyo 17 3 17.6 14 82.4 0 0
Kern 2,507 2,192 87.4 260 10.4 55 2.2
Kings 370 218 58.9 143 38.6 9 2.4
Lake 210 114 54.3 92 43.8 6 2.9
Lassen 101 43 42.6 55 54.5 3 3.0
Los Angeles 28,292 23,331 82.5 3,903 13.8 1,058 3.7
Madera 278 138 49.6 140 50.4 0 0
Marin 86 46 53.5 37 43.0 3 3.5
Mariposa 67 38 56.7 28 41.8 1 1.5
Mendocino 290 180 62.1 101 34.8 9 3.1
Merced 691 507 73.4 175 25.3 9 1.3
Modoc 21 13 61.9 7 33.3 1 4.8
Mono 7 5 71.4 2 28.6 0 0
Monterey 518 380 73.4 129 24.9 9 1.7
Napa 117 66 56.4 46 39.3 5 4.3
Nevada 68 48 70.6 20 29.4 0 0
Orange 3,495 2,389 68.4 1,041 29.8 65 1.9
Placer 341 182 53.4 153 44.9 6 1.8
Plumas 72 36 50.0 32 44.4 4 5.6
Riverside 5,285 3,992 75.5 1,160 21.9 133 2.5
Sacramento 4,719 3,416 72.4 1,173 24.9 130 2.8
San Benito 103 47 45.6 55 53.4 1 1.0
San Bernardino 4,722 3,599 76.2 984 20.8 139 2.9
San Diego 5,785 4,812 83.2 676 11.7 297 5.1
San Francisco 1,697 705 41.5 922 54.3 70 4.1
San Joaquin 1,596 1,145 71.7 396 24.8 55 3.4
San Luis Obispo 508 338 66.5 157 30.9 13 2.6
San Mateo 483 252 52.2 215 44.5 16 3.3
Santa Barbara 658 458 69.6 199 30.2 1 0.2
Santa Clara 1,980 1,273 64.3 627 31.7 80 4.0
Santa Cruz 343 220 64.1 112 32.7 11 3.2
Shasta 632 481 76.1 133 21.0 18 2.8
Sierra 17 1 5.9 16 94.1 0 0
Siskiyou 183 127 69.4 52 28.4 4 2.2
Solano 507 363 71.6 135 26.6 9 1.8
Sonoma 638 432 67.7 191 29.9 15 2.4
Stanislaus 655 516 78.8 134 20.5 5 0.8
Sutter 159 66 41.5 87 54.7 6 3.8
Tehama 278 186 66.9 91 32.7 1 0.4
Trinity 39 17 43.6 22 56.4 0 0
Tulare 1,093 850 77.8 225 20.6 18 1.6
Tuolumne 115 68 59.1 43 37.4 4 3.5
Ventura 751 614 81.8 111 14.8 26 3.5
Yolo 420 155 36.9 257 61.2 8 1.9
Yuba 165 84 50.9 78 47.3 3 1.8
Unknown 264 0 0 260 98.5 4 1.5

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.