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

County Total In
County
%
In
County
Out
of
County
%
Out
of
County
Out
of
State
%
Out
of
State
California 79,313 59,870 75.5 17,081 21.5 2,364 3.0
Alameda 2,812 1,400 49.8 1,334 47.4 78 2.8
Amador 39 20 51.3 18 46.2 1 2.6
Butte 908 662 72.9 224 24.7 22 2.4
Calaveras 79 54 68.4 22 27.8 3 3.8
Colusa 39 12 30.8 27 69.2 0 0
Contra Costa 1,484 1,007 67.9 453 30.5 24 1.6
Del Norte 120 91 75.8 24 20.0 5 4.2
El Dorado 311 201 64.6 103 33.1 7 2.3
Fresno 2,830 2,455 86.7 357 12.6 18 0.6
Glenn 121 72 59.5 48 39.7 1 0.8
Humboldt 288 241 83.7 41 14.2 6 2.1
Imperial 510 343 67.3 157 30.8 10 2.0
Inyo 19 4 21.1 15 78.9 0 0
Kern 2,474 2,171 87.8 252 10.2 51 2.1
Kings 341 201 58.9 131 38.4 9 2.6
Lake 202 116 57.4 82 40.6 6 3.0
Lassen 101 51 50.5 48 47.5 2 2.0
Los Angeles 27,856 22,950 82.4 3,874 13.9 1,032 3.7
Madera 281 150 53.4 131 46.6 0 0
Marin 77 43 55.8 31 40.3 3 3.9
Mariposa 59 35 59.3 23 39.0 1 1.7
Mendocino 284 186 65.5 91 32.0 7 2.5
Merced 699 528 75.5 160 22.9 11 1.6
Modoc 22 14 63.6 7 31.8 1 4.5
Mono 9 6 66.7 3 33.3 0 0
Monterey 518 366 70.7 144 27.8 8 1.5
Napa 110 58 52.7 46 41.8 6 5.5
Nevada 67 46 68.7 21 31.3 0 0
Orange 3,470 2,362 68.1 1,047 30.2 61 1.8
Placer 356 189 53.1 162 45.5 5 1.4
Plumas 76 37 48.7 35 46.1 4 5.3
Riverside 4,895 3,752 76.6 1,023 20.9 120 2.5
Sacramento 4,814 3,513 73.0 1,176 24.4 125 2.6
San Benito 106 49 46.2 56 52.8 1 0.9
San Bernardino 4,636 3,560 76.8 948 20.4 128 2.8
San Diego 5,398 4,627 85.7 504 9.3 267 4.9
San Francisco 1,714 715 41.7 928 54.1 71 4.1
San Joaquin 1,511 1,138 75.3 339 22.4 34 2.3
San Luis Obispo 495 322 65.1 158 31.9 15 3.0
San Mateo 441 242 54.9 183 41.5 16 3.6
Santa Barbara 659 473 71.8 185 28.1 1 0.2
Santa Clara 1,916 1,238 64.6 605 31.6 73 3.8
Santa Cruz 333 234 70.3 90 27.0 9 2.7
Shasta 658 514 78.1 126 19.1 18 2.7
Sierra 15 1 6.7 14 93.3 0 0
Siskiyou 199 140 70.4 55 27.6 4 2.0
Solano 489 364 74.4 118 24.1 7 1.4
Sonoma 598 398 66.6 185 30.9 15 2.5
Stanislaus 656 506 77.1 142 21.6 8 1.2
Sutter 160 78 48.8 77 48.1 5 3.1
Tehama 280 189 67.5 90 32.1 1 0.4
Trinity 35 13 37.1 22 62.9 0 0
Tulare 1,043 819 78.5 203 19.5 21 2.0
Tuolumne 116 72 62.1 39 33.6 5 4.3
Ventura 731 597 81.7 110 15.0 24 3.3
Yolo 404 155 38.4 241 59.7 8 2.0
Yuba 183 90 49.2 90 49.2 3 1.6
Unknown 266 0 0 263 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.