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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 74,126 57,883 78.1 14,320 19.3 1,925 2.6
Alameda 2,583 1,393 53.9 1,119 43.3 71 2.7
Amador 30 16 53.3 14 46.7 0 0
Butte 887 688 77.6 178 20.1 21 2.4
Calaveras 80 56 70.0 21 26.3 3 3.8
Colusa 38 12 31.6 26 68.4 0 0
Contra Costa 1,513 1,103 72.9 386 25.5 24 1.6
Del Norte 102 78 76.5 20 19.6 4 3.9
El Dorado 270 172 63.7 83 30.7 15 5.6
Fresno 2,715 2,379 87.6 320 11.8 16 0.6
Glenn 103 63 61.2 38 36.9 2 1.9
Humboldt 287 248 86.4 34 11.8 5 1.7
Imperial 464 356 76.7 102 22.0 6 1.3
Inyo 14 8 57.1 6 42.9 0 0
Kern 2,440 2,255 92.4 127 5.2 58 2.4
Kings 356 240 67.4 109 30.6 7 2.0
Lake 192 119 62.0 72 37.5 3 1.6
Lassen 69 33 47.8 34 49.3 2 2.9
Los Angeles 24,077 20,581 85.5 2,921 12.1 575 2.4
Madera 307 159 51.8 147 47.9 1 0.3
Marin 73 58 79.5 10 13.7 5 6.8
Mariposa 57 33 57.9 21 36.8 3 5.3
Mendocino 285 182 63.9 94 33.0 9 3.2
Merced 648 486 75.0 154 23.8 8 1.2
Modoc 9 5 55.6 3 33.3 1 11.1
Mono 5 4 80.0 1 20.0 0 0
Monterey 453 392 86.5 50 11.0 11 2.4
Napa 87 63 72.4 19 21.8 5 5.7
Nevada 72 60 83.3 11 15.3 1 1.4
Orange 3,326 2,308 69.4 935 28.1 83 2.5
Placer 304 187 61.5 112 36.8 5 1.6
Plumas 66 33 50.0 31 47.0 2 3.0
Riverside 5,488 4,309 78.5 1,042 19.0 137 2.5
Sacramento 4,346 3,211 73.9 1,043 24.0 92 2.1
San Benito 94 49 52.1 44 46.8 1 1.1
San Bernardino 4,612 3,610 78.3 885 19.2 117 2.5
San Diego 5,331 4,569 85.7 422 7.9 340 6.4
San Francisco 1,595 696 43.6 842 52.8 57 3.6
San Joaquin 1,464 1,222 83.5 225 15.4 17 1.2
San Luis Obispo 428 296 69.2 116 27.1 16 3.7
San Mateo 470 279 59.4 180 38.3 11 2.3
Santa Barbara 590 444 75.3 145 24.6 1 0.2
Santa Clara 2,012 1,338 66.5 612 30.4 62 3.1
Santa Cruz 301 226 75.1 70 23.3 5 1.7
Shasta 594 482 81.1 93 15.7 19 3.2
Sierra 17 1 5.9 16 94.1 0 0
Siskiyou 156 112 71.8 40 25.6 4 2.6
Solano 482 376 78.0 97 20.1 9 1.9
Sonoma 553 414 74.9 131 23.7 8 1.4
Stanislaus 582 480 82.5 97 16.7 5 0.9
Sutter 167 86 51.5 75 44.9 6 3.6
Tehama 263 193 73.4 67 25.5 3 1.1
Trinity 46 21 45.7 23 50.0 2 4.3
Tulare 999 810 81.1 169 16.9 20 2.0
Tuolumne 116 72 62.1 38 32.8 6 5.2
Ventura 670 558 83.3 84 12.5 28 4.2
Yolo 415 163 39.3 243 58.6 9 2.2
Yuba 199 96 48.2 100 50.3 3 1.5
Unknown 224 0 0 223 99.6 1 0.4

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.