Kids in Families ~ Families in Communities
All children have the right to live in a healthy family. AFS services uphold a commitment to building sustainable relationships surrounding children and youths in and out of foster care through five distinct, accredited areas of service:
California Children in Foster Care
The number of children in the state’s foster care system declined from nearly 110,000 in 1999 to about 62,000 ten years later. The decrease is not due to less child abuse and neglect, but rather how the state now aggressively pursues permanence through adoptions, guardianships and family reunification instead of placing children into or allowing children to remain in foster care.
- 1,401 approximate number of foster children and youth who received AFS foster services
- 51 foster youth were served in intensive treatment foster care
- 21 foster children had some form of disability
- 425 certified families were available to care for children and youth
- 79% of AFS foster children and youth reunified with families
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CALIFORNIA STATISTICS as of 07/01/2008 |
NATIONAL STATISTICS as of 09/30/2008 |
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| Children in Foster Care | 65,404 | Children in Foster Care | 463,000 | |
| Entered Foster Care in 2008 | 36,162 | Entered Foster Care in 2008 | 273,000 | |
| Exited Foster Care in 2008 | 40,347 | Exited Foster Care in 2008 | 285,000 | |
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A California Department of Social Services / University of California at Berkeley collaboration http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare/
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U.S. Dpt of HHS, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau, http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb
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