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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 78,133 59,002 75.5 16,823 21.5 2,310 3.0
Alameda 2,827 1,411 49.9 1,331 47.1 85 3.0
Amador 43 21 48.8 21 48.8 1 2.3
Butte 899 661 73.5 217 24.1 21 2.3
Calaveras 88 62 70.5 23 26.1 3 3.4
Colusa 34 8 23.5 26 76.5 0 0
Contra Costa 1,498 1,019 68.0 457 30.5 22 1.5
Del Norte 123 91 74.0 26 21.1 6 4.9
El Dorado 307 192 62.5 109 35.5 6 2.0
Fresno 2,724 2,376 87.2 333 12.2 15 0.6
Glenn 118 67 56.8 50 42.4 1 0.8
Humboldt 277 229 82.7 42 15.2 6 2.2
Imperial 515 332 64.5 173 33.6 10 1.9
Inyo 19 4 21.1 15 78.9 0 0
Kern 2,421 2,122 87.6 240 9.9 59 2.4
Kings 334 200 59.9 125 37.4 9 2.7
Lake 196 113 57.7 79 40.3 6 3.1
Lassen 100 52 52.0 46 46.0 2 2.0
Los Angeles 27,475 22,632 82.4 3,832 13.9 1,011 3.7
Madera 288 159 55.2 129 44.8 0 0
Marin 83 48 57.8 32 38.6 3 3.6
Mariposa 58 31 53.4 23 39.7 4 6.9
Mendocino 293 198 67.6 89 30.4 6 2.0
Merced 725 562 77.5 152 21.0 11 1.5
Modoc 21 14 66.7 6 28.6 1 4.8
Mono 9 6 66.7 3 33.3 0 0
Monterey 503 352 70.0 143 28.4 8 1.6
Napa 104 57 54.8 41 39.4 6 5.8
Nevada 76 53 69.7 23 30.3 0 0
Orange 3,462 2,336 67.5 1,069 30.9 57 1.6
Placer 354 178 50.3 171 48.3 5 1.4
Plumas 80 43 53.8 33 41.3 4 5.0
Riverside 4,762 3,644 76.5 1,005 21.1 113 2.4
Sacramento 4,788 3,508 73.3 1,153 24.1 127 2.7
San Benito 103 49 47.6 53 51.5 1 1.0
San Bernardino 4,551 3,490 76.7 941 20.7 120 2.6
San Diego 5,272 4,503 85.4 511 9.7 258 4.9
San Francisco 1,719 731 42.5 921 53.6 67 3.9
San Joaquin 1,489 1,122 75.4 332 22.3 35 2.4
San Luis Obispo 434 277 63.8 144 33.2 13 3.0
San Mateo 430 237 55.1 178 41.4 15 3.5
Santa Barbara 626 454 72.5 172 27.5 0 0
Santa Clara 1,846 1,224 66.3 552 29.9 70 3.8
Santa Cruz 336 238 70.8 91 27.1 7 2.1
Shasta 673 528 78.5 128 19.0 17 2.5
Sierra 12 1 8.3 11 91.7 0 0
Siskiyou 207 143 69.1 60 29.0 4 1.9
Solano 460 348 75.7 106 23.0 6 1.3
Sonoma 580 394 67.9 172 29.7 14 2.4
Stanislaus 643 498 77.4 138 21.5 7 1.1
Sutter 155 69 44.5 81 52.3 5 3.2
Tehama 279 195 69.9 83 29.7 1 0.4
Trinity 29 11 37.9 18 62.1 0 0
Tulare 1,004 794 79.1 189 18.8 21 2.1
Tuolumne 109 62 56.9 42 38.5 5 4.6
Ventura 735 605 82.3 107 14.6 23 3.1
Yolo 398 167 42.0 224 56.3 7 1.8
Yuba 176 81 46.0 92 52.3 3 1.7
Unknown 263 0 0 260 98.9 3 1.1

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.