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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 79,075 59,812 75.6 16,947 21.4 2,318 2.9
Alameda 2,817 1,416 50.3 1,323 47.0 78 2.8
Amador 42 21 50.0 20 47.6 1 2.4
Butte 922 680 73.8 221 24.0 21 2.3
Calaveras 80 52 65.0 25 31.3 3 3.8
Colusa 36 9 25.0 27 75.0 0 0
Contra Costa 1,492 1,027 68.8 442 29.6 23 1.5
Del Norte 116 86 74.1 25 21.6 5 4.3
El Dorado 319 202 63.3 111 34.8 6 1.9
Fresno 2,782 2,428 87.3 339 12.2 15 0.5
Glenn 117 67 57.3 49 41.9 1 0.9
Humboldt 281 235 83.6 40 14.2 6 2.1
Imperial 510 332 65.1 168 32.9 10 2.0
Inyo 19 4 21.1 15 78.9 0 0
Kern 2,456 2,161 88.0 244 9.9 51 2.1
Kings 337 199 59.1 129 38.3 9 2.7
Lake 206 122 59.2 80 38.8 6 2.9
Lassen 102 52 51.0 48 47.1 2 2.0
Los Angeles 27,805 22,875 82.3 3,904 14.0 1,026 3.7
Madera 285 156 54.7 129 45.3 0 0
Marin 79 45 57.0 31 39.2 3 3.8
Mariposa 58 34 58.6 23 39.7 1 1.7
Mendocino 297 203 68.4 88 29.6 6 2.0
Merced 735 563 76.6 161 21.9 11 1.5
Modoc 20 13 65.0 6 30.0 1 5.0
Mono 9 6 66.7 3 33.3 0 0
Monterey 519 369 71.1 142 27.4 8 1.5
Napa 106 59 55.7 41 38.7 6 5.7
Nevada 70 49 70.0 21 30.0 0 0
Orange 3,520 2,380 67.6 1,080 30.7 60 1.7
Placer 354 187 52.8 163 46.0 4 1.1
Plumas 78 40 51.3 34 43.6 4 5.1
Riverside 4,813 3,705 77.0 996 20.7 112 2.3
Sacramento 4,815 3,537 73.5 1,161 24.1 117 2.4
San Benito 104 48 46.2 55 52.9 1 1.0
San Bernardino 4,612 3,541 76.8 942 20.4 129 2.8
San Diego 5,405 4,629 85.6 517 9.6 259 4.8
San Francisco 1,707 727 42.6 910 53.3 70 4.1
San Joaquin 1,496 1,128 75.4 333 22.3 35 2.3
San Luis Obispo 452 294 65.0 144 31.9 14 3.1
San Mateo 430 240 55.8 175 40.7 15 3.5
Santa Barbara 654 473 72.3 180 27.5 1 0.2
Santa Clara 1,891 1,246 65.9 574 30.4 71 3.8
Santa Cruz 333 238 71.5 86 25.8 9 2.7
Shasta 652 509 78.1 126 19.3 17 2.6
Sierra 14 1 7.1 13 92.9 0 0
Siskiyou 200 136 68.0 60 30.0 4 2.0
Solano 475 361 76.0 109 22.9 5 1.1
Sonoma 595 404 67.9 176 29.6 15 2.5
Stanislaus 646 494 76.5 145 22.4 7 1.1
Sutter 159 76 47.8 78 49.1 5 3.1
Tehama 275 191 69.5 83 30.2 1 0.4
Trinity 33 14 42.4 19 57.6 0 0
Tulare 1,057 832 78.7 204 19.3 21 2.0
Tuolumne 105 63 60.0 37 35.2 5 4.8
Ventura 749 612 81.7 112 15.0 25 3.3
Yolo 399 159 39.8 233 58.4 7 1.8
Yuba 173 82 47.4 88 50.9 3 1.7
Unknown 262 0 0 259 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.