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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 73,559 57,544 78.2 14,163 19.3 1,854 2.5
Alameda 2,591 1,389 53.6 1,135 43.8 67 2.6
Amador 34 17 50.0 17 50.0 0 0
Butte 902 700 77.6 181 20.1 21 2.3
Calaveras 70 46 65.7 21 30.0 3 4.3
Colusa 36 11 30.6 25 69.4 0 0
Contra Costa 1,490 1,083 72.7 385 25.8 22 1.5
Del Norte 106 83 78.3 19 17.9 4 3.8
El Dorado 280 188 67.1 80 28.6 12 4.3
Fresno 2,759 2,424 87.9 320 11.6 15 0.5
Glenn 100 62 62.0 36 36.0 2 2.0
Humboldt 291 256 88.0 29 10.0 6 2.1
Imperial 456 356 78.1 94 20.6 6 1.3
Inyo 12 3 25.0 9 75.0 0 0
Kern 2,412 2,230 92.5 131 5.4 51 2.1
Kings 342 225 65.8 110 32.2 7 2.0
Lake 188 115 61.2 72 38.3 3 1.6
Lassen 67 36 53.7 29 43.3 2 3.0
Los Angeles 23,790 20,336 85.5 2,894 12.2 560 2.4
Madera 279 154 55.2 125 44.8 0 0
Marin 69 58 84.1 6 8.7 5 7.2
Mariposa 60 34 56.7 23 38.3 3 5.0
Mendocino 289 190 65.7 91 31.5 8 2.8
Merced 632 473 74.8 150 23.7 9 1.4
Modoc 9 5 55.6 3 33.3 1 11.1
Mono 5 4 80.0 1 20.0 0 0
Monterey 458 393 85.8 55 12.0 10 2.2
Napa 89 66 74.2 19 21.3 4 4.5
Nevada 72 60 83.3 11 15.3 1 1.4
Orange 3,345 2,311 69.1 957 28.6 77 2.3
Placer 315 184 58.4 126 40.0 5 1.6
Plumas 70 38 54.3 29 41.4 3 4.3
Riverside 5,217 4,127 79.1 958 18.4 132 2.5
Sacramento 4,406 3,283 74.5 1,034 23.5 89 2.0
San Benito 93 48 51.6 44 47.3 1 1.1
San Bernardino 4,551 3,577 78.6 857 18.8 117 2.6
San Diego 5,384 4,640 86.2 428 7.9 316 5.9
San Francisco 1,584 703 44.4 827 52.2 54 3.4
San Joaquin 1,426 1,191 83.5 218 15.3 17 1.2
San Luis Obispo 434 315 72.6 107 24.7 12 2.8
San Mateo 447 262 58.6 176 39.4 9 2.0
Santa Barbara 587 441 75.1 145 24.7 1 0.2
Santa Clara 1,976 1,304 66.0 600 30.4 72 3.6
Santa Cruz 314 239 76.1 69 22.0 6 1.9
Shasta 605 477 78.8 110 18.2 18 3.0
Sierra 19 1 5.3 18 94.7 0 0
Siskiyou 161 119 73.9 38 23.6 4 2.5
Solano 466 363 77.9 94 20.2 9 1.9
Sonoma 580 433 74.7 140 24.1 7 1.2
Stanislaus 591 492 83.2 94 15.9 5 0.8
Sutter 164 78 47.6 80 48.8 6 3.7
Tehama 249 184 73.9 62 24.9 3 1.2
Trinity 46 20 43.5 26 56.5 0 0
Tulare 987 806 81.7 161 16.3 20 2.0
Tuolumne 114 65 57.0 42 36.8 7 6.1
Ventura 690 585 84.8 77 11.2 28 4.1
Yolo 411 157 38.2 246 59.9 8 1.9
Yuba 203 104 51.2 96 47.3 3 1.5
Unknown 236 0 0 233 98.7 3 1.3

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.