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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 74638 58118 77.9 14536 19.5 1986 2.7
Alameda 2570 1367 53.2 1132 44.0 71 2.8
Amador 32 17 53.1 15 46.9 0 0
Butte 905 700 77.3 184 20.3 21 2.3
Calaveras 78 52 66.7 23 29.5 3 3.8
Colusa 41 12 29.3 29 70.7 0 0
Contra Costa 1539 1130 73.4 388 25.2 21 1.4
Del Norte 91 68 74.7 19 20.9 4 4.4
El Dorado 266 171 64.3 80 30.1 15 5.6
Fresno 2649 2325 87.8 306 11.6 18 0.7
Glenn 105 60 57.1 43 41.0 2 1.9
Humboldt 276 235 85.1 34 12.3 7 2.5
Imperial 456 358 78.5 94 20.6 4 0.9
Inyo 15 9 60.0 6 40.0 0 0
Kern 2428 2226 91.7 141 5.8 61 2.5
Kings 377 252 66.8 117 31.0 8 2.1
Lake 188 119 63.3 68 36.2 3 1.6
Lassen 72 35 48.6 35 48.6 2 2.8
Los Angeles 24381 20832 85.4 2957 12.1 592 2.4
Madera 287 136 47.4 150 52.3 1 0.3
Marin 67 55 82.1 7 10.4 5 7.5
Mariposa 62 34 54.8 25 40.3 3 4.8
Mendocino 287 172 59.9 106 36.9 9 3.1
Merced 650 485 74.6 157 24.2 8 1.2
Modoc 10 7 70.0 2 20.0 1 10.0
Mono 5 4 80.0 1 20.0 0 0
Monterey 476 409 85.9 49 10.3 18 3.8
Napa 90 68 75.6 18 20.0 4 4.4
Nevada 77 59 76.6 17 22.1 1 1.3
Orange 3413 2373 69.5 946 27.7 94 2.8
Placer 315 195 61.9 114 36.2 6 1.9
Plumas 81 41 50.6 38 46.9 2 2.5
Riverside 5599 4371 78.1 1089 19.4 139 2.5
Sacramento 4289 3191 74.4 1006 23.5 92 2.1
San Benito 85 47 55.3 37 43.5 1 1.2
San Bernardino 4604 3596 78.1 888 19.3 120 2.6
San Diego 5337 4570 85.6 410 7.7 357 6.7
San Francisco 1626 702 43.2 865 53.2 59 3.6
San Joaquin 1510 1242 82.3 250 16.6 18 1.2
San Luis Obispo 421 298 70.8 107 25.4 16 3.8
San Mateo 481 286 59.5 184 38.3 11 2.3
Santa Barbara 595 442 74.3 151 25.4 2 0.3
Santa Clara 2004 1319 65.8 626 31.2 59 2.9
Santa Cruz 317 232 73.2 78 24.6 7 2.2
Shasta 604 492 81.5 93 15.4 19 3.1
Sierra 18 1 5.6 17 94.4 0 0
Siskiyou 160 116 72.5 40 25.0 4 2.5
Solano 481 376 78.2 97 20.2 8 1.7
Sonoma 533 396 74.3 129 24.2 8 1.5
Stanislaus 586 483 82.4 99 16.9 4 0.7
Sutter 172 83 48.3 83 48.3 6 3.5
Tehama 255 182 71.4 70 27.5 3 1.2
Trinity 41 18 43.9 23 56.1 0 0
Tulare 1014 812 80.1 180 17.8 22 2.2
Tuolumne 104 64 61.5 34 32.7 6 5.8
Ventura 675 554 82.1 94 13.9 27 4.0
Yolo 411 155 37.7 249 60.6 7 1.7
Yuba 198 84 42.4 111 56.1 3 1.5
Unknown 229 0 0 225 98.3 4 1.7

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.