Child Welfare Services/Case Management System
Children in Out of Home Placements
Welfare Supervised
During April 2008

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 74,053 57,889 78.2 14,289 19.3 1,877 2.5
Alameda 2,597 1,403 54.0 1,125 43.3 69 2.7
Amador 31 17 54.8 14 45.2 0 0
Butte 899 701 78.0 177 19.7 21 2.3
Calaveras 72 47 65.3 22 30.6 3 4.2
Colusa 39 13 33.3 26 66.7 0 0
Contra Costa 1,497 1,089 72.7 388 25.9 20 1.3
Del Norte 111 87 78.4 20 18.0 4 3.6
El Dorado 276 181 65.6 80 29.0 15 5.4
Fresno 2,730 2,390 87.5 322 11.8 18 0.7
Glenn 101 62 61.4 37 36.6 2 2.0
Humboldt 292 251 86.0 34 11.6 7 2.4
Imperial 462 358 77.5 98 21.2 6 1.3
Inyo 12 4 33.3 8 66.7 0 0
Kern 2,473 2,282 92.3 137 5.5 54 2.2
Kings 360 246 68.3 107 29.7 7 1.9
Lake 193 119 61.7 73 37.8 3 1.6
Lassen 70 36 51.4 32 45.7 2 2.9
Los Angeles 23,990 20,504 85.5 2,928 12.2 558 2.3
Madera 297 157 52.9 139 46.8 1 0.3
Marin 73 58 79.5 10 13.7 5 6.8
Mariposa 58 33 56.9 22 37.9 3 5.2
Mendocino 290 186 64.1 95 32.8 9 3.1
Merced 640 482 75.3 150 23.4 8 1.3
Modoc 10 6 60.0 3 30.0 1 10.0
Mono 5 4 80.0 1 20.0 0 0
Monterey 459 398 86.7 51 11.1 10 2.2
Napa 83 60 72.3 18 21.7 5 6.0
Nevada 69 57 82.6 11 15.9 1 1.4
Orange 3,338 2,329 69.8 933 28.0 76 2.3
Placer 303 184 60.7 114 37.6 5 1.7
Plumas 70 36 51.4 31 44.3 3 4.3
Riverside 5,390 4,253 78.9 1,006 18.7 131 2.4
Sacramento 4,348 3,219 74.0 1,039 23.9 90 2.1
San Benito 100 53 53.0 46 46.0 1 1.0
San Bernardino 4,561 3,583 78.6 860 18.9 118 2.6
San Diego 5,390 4,636 86.0 420 7.8 334 6.2
San Francisco 1,585 691 43.6 837 52.8 57 3.6
San Joaquin 1,441 1,195 82.9 229 15.9 17 1.2
San Luis Obispo 435 311 71.5 112 25.7 12 2.8
San Mateo 445 254 57.1 182 40.9 9 2.0
Santa Barbara 596 449 75.3 146 24.5 1 0.2
Santa Clara 2,017 1,344 66.6 610 30.2 63 3.1
Santa Cruz 311 242 77.8 64 20.6 5 1.6
Shasta 607 494 81.4 95 15.7 18 3.0
Sierra 21 1 4.8 20 95.2 0 0
Siskiyou 159 115 72.3 40 25.2 4 2.5
Solano 468 366 78.2 93 19.9 9 1.9
Sonoma 565 426 75.4 131 23.2 8 1.4
Stanislaus 593 491 82.8 97 16.4 5 0.8
Sutter 169 88 52.1 75 44.4 6 3.6
Tehama 265 199 75.1 63 23.8 3 1.1
Trinity 45 21 46.7 22 48.9 2 4.4
Tulare 985 791 80.3 173 17.6 21 2.1
Tuolumne 111 65 58.6 40 36.0 6 5.4
Ventura 677 570 84.2 80 11.8 27 4.0
Yolo 413 154 37.3 250 60.5 9 2.2
Yuba 207 98 47.3 106 51.2 3 1.4
Unknown 249 0 0 247 99.2 2 0.8

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-Research and Development Division
CWS/CMS1a
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.