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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 73,047 57,099 78.2 14,105 19.3 1,845 2.5
Alameda 2,624 1,411 53.8 1,150 43.8 63 2.4
Amador 30 16 53.3 14 46.7 0 0
Butte 893 685 76.7 187 20.9 21 2.4
Calaveras 73 49 67.1 21 28.8 3 4.1
Colusa 35 9 25.7 26 74.3 0 0
Contra Costa 1,491 1,084 72.7 383 25.7 24 1.6
Del Norte 100 77 77.0 19 19.0 4 4.0
El Dorado 279 184 65.9 84 30.1 11 3.9
Fresno 2,753 2,420 87.9 318 11.6 15 0.5
Glenn 107 66 61.7 39 36.4 2 1.9
Humboldt 289 252 87.2 30 10.4 7 2.4
Imperial 437 341 78.0 90 20.6 6 1.4
Inyo 11 2 18.2 9 81.8 0 0
Kern 2,390 2,208 92.4 131 5.5 51 2.1
Kings 336 222 66.1 106 31.5 8 2.4
Lake 189 117 61.9 68 36.0 6 3.2
Lassen 67 36 53.7 29 43.3 2 3.0
Los Angeles 23,687 20,270 85.6 2,848 12.0 569 2.4
Madera 274 142 51.8 132 48.2 0 0
Marin 61 51 83.6 5 8.2 5 8.2
Mariposa 62 39 62.9 22 35.5 1 1.6
Mendocino 278 184 66.2 88 31.7 6 2.2
Merced 670 505 75.4 156 23.3 9 1.3
Modoc 10 7 70.0 2 20.0 1 10.0
Mono 6 5 83.3 1 16.7 0 0
Monterey 453 388 85.7 57 12.6 8 1.8
Napa 91 67 73.6 19 20.9 5 5.5
Nevada 65 54 83.1 11 16.9 0 0
Orange 3,340 2,322 69.5 941 28.2 77 2.3
Placer 308 173 56.2 129 41.9 6 1.9
Plumas 68 37 54.4 28 41.2 3 4.4
Riverside 5,083 3,979 78.3 973 19.1 131 2.6
Sacramento 4,421 3,299 74.6 1,032 23.3 90 2.0
San Benito 92 44 47.8 47 51.1 1 1.1
San Bernardino 4,515 3,533 78.3 861 19.1 121 2.7
San Diego 5,305 4,588 86.5 416 7.8 301 5.7
San Francisco 1,562 692 44.3 818 52.4 52 3.3
San Joaquin 1,404 1,166 83.0 219 15.6 19 1.4
San Luis Obispo 438 311 71.0 116 26.5 11 2.5
San Mateo 445 255 57.3 178 40.0 12 2.7
Santa Barbara 590 442 74.9 147 24.9 1 0.2
Santa Clara 1,944 1,290 66.4 586 30.1 68 3.5
Santa Cruz 311 235 75.6 70 22.5 6 1.9
Shasta 611 485 79.4 108 17.7 18 2.9
Sierra 17 1 5.9 16 94.1 0 0
Siskiyou 171 129 75.4 38 22.2 4 2.3
Solano 467 362 77.5 96 20.6 9 1.9
Sonoma 573 424 74.0 142 24.8 7 1.2
Stanislaus 593 493 83.1 95 16.0 5 0.8
Sutter 158 71 44.9 80 50.6 7 4.4
Tehama 247 180 72.9 64 25.9 3 1.2
Trinity 41 18 43.9 23 56.1 0 0
Tulare 965 793 82.2 153 15.9 19 2.0
Tuolumne 108 61 56.5 40 37.0 7 6.5
Ventura 685 579 84.5 79 11.5 27 3.9
Yolo 409 157 38.4 244 59.7 8 2.0
Yuba 182 89 48.9 90 49.5 3 1.6
Unknown 233 0 0 231 99.1 2 0.9

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/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.