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

County Total In
County
%
In
County
Out
of
County
%
Out
of
County
Out
of
State
%
Out
of
State
California 83,371 62,455 74.9 18,415 22.1 2,503 3.0
Alameda 3,049 1,472 48.3 1,495 49.0 82 2.7
Amador 37 17 45.9 20 54.1 0 0
Butte 944 701 74.3 220 23.3 23 2.4
Calaveras 76 47 61.8 26 34.2 3 3.9
Colusa 47 11 23.4 36 76.6 0 0
Contra Costa 1,641 1,092 66.5 527 32.1 22 1.3
Del Norte 118 88 74.6 26 22.0 4 3.4
El Dorado 293 191 65.2 90 30.7 12 4.1
Fresno 2,903 2,522 86.9 365 12.6 16 0.6
Glenn 105 62 59.0 41 39.0 2 1.9
Humboldt 325 274 84.3 45 13.8 6 1.8
Imperial 519 359 69.2 150 28.9 10 1.9
Inyo 18 4 22.2 14 77.8 0 0
Kern 2,637 2,291 86.9 290 11.0 56 2.1
Kings 370 225 60.8 138 37.3 7 1.9
Lake 214 117 54.7 96 44.9 3 1.4
Lassen 102 45 44.1 54 52.9 3 2.9
Los Angeles 28,851 23,750 82.3 4,057 14.1 1,044 3.6
Madera 297 155 52.2 142 47.8 0 0
Marin 105 58 55.2 41 39.0 6 5.7
Mariposa 65 34 52.3 28 43.1 3 4.6
Mendocino 321 199 62.0 114 35.5 8 2.5
Merced 665 477 71.7 179 26.9 9 1.4
Modoc 16 9 56.3 6 37.5 1 6.3
Mono 5 4 80.0 1 20.0 0 0
Monterey 532 401 75.4 121 22.7 10 1.9
Napa 122 66 54.1 52 42.6 4 3.3
Nevada 83 61 73.5 21 25.3 1 1.2
Orange 3,578 2,406 67.2 1,095 30.6 77 2.2
Placer 352 196 55.7 151 42.9 5 1.4
Plumas 78 40 51.3 35 44.9 3 3.8
Riverside 5,638 4,290 76.1 1,216 21.6 132 2.3
Sacramento 4,727 3,418 72.3 1,182 25.0 127 2.7
San Benito 104 50 48.1 53 51.0 1 1.0
San Bernardino 4,945 3,787 76.6 1,027 20.8 131 2.6
San Diego 5,913 4,908 83.0 689 11.7 316 5.3
San Francisco 1,739 733 42.2 937 53.9 69 4.0
San Joaquin 1,628 1,198 73.6 382 23.5 48 2.9
San Luis Obispo 493 334 67.7 145 29.4 14 2.8
San Mateo 505 272 53.9 219 43.4 14 2.8
Santa Barbara 664 461 69.4 202 30.4 1 0.2
Santa Clara 2,071 1,323 63.9 663 32.0 85 4.1
Santa Cruz 372 244 65.6 117 31.5 11 3.0
Shasta 639 487 76.2 134 21.0 18 2.8
Sierra 19 1 5.3 18 94.7 0 0
Siskiyou 181 123 68.0 54 29.8 4 2.2
Solano 513 371 72.3 133 25.9 9 1.8
Sonoma 665 460 69.2 189 28.4 16 2.4
Stanislaus 650 503 77.4 141 21.7 6 0.9
Sutter 173 78 45.1 89 51.4 6 3.5
Tehama 284 186 65.5 95 33.5 3 1.1
Trinity 46 20 43.5 26 56.5 0 0
Tulare 1,142 888 77.8 233 20.4 21 1.8
Tuolumne 121 66 54.5 48 39.7 7 5.8
Ventura 757 619 81.8 110 14.5 28 3.7
Yolo 439 157 35.8 274 62.4 8 1.8
Yuba 204 104 51.0 97 47.5 3 1.5
Unknown 271 0 0 266 98.2 5 1.8

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.