An overview of basic California foster care data

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An overview of basic California foster care data

• Joe Magruder, MSW
• Center for Social Services Research
• School of Social Welfare
• University of California at Berkeley
• Presentation to Walter S Johnson Foundation
  Trustees November 8, 2008
• The California Child Welfare Performance
  Indicators Project is supported by the California
  Department of Social Services and the Stuart
  Foundation

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Foster Care Caseload, Entries and Exits
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Foster Care Rates and Incidence
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Caseload Rates by Age
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Entry Rates by Age
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Exit Rates
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Exit Rates Ages 0 to 2
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Summary

• The number (and rate) of children in foster care
  has declined rapidly in the last decade.
• The number (and rate) of children entering care
  has not changed
• Children appear to be spending less time in care,
  to be moving to permanency especially
  reunification and adoption more rapidly.

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joemagruder_at_berkeley.edu
CSSR.BERKELEY.EDU/UCB_CHILDWELFARE Thank you to
our colleagues at the Center for Social Services
Research, the California Department of Social
Services, and the Stuart Foundation