Definition: Percentage of children who enter foster care for the first time and stay in care for at least 12 months, by placement distance from home address after one year in care (e.g., among California children entering foster care for the first time in 2014 and staying in care for at least 12 months, 39.5% lived 11 or more miles from their home address after one year).
Data Source: Webster, D., et al. Child Welfare Services Reports for California. UC Berkeley Center for Social Services Research (Jun. 2016).
Footnote: Data are based on unduplicated counts of children under the supervision of county welfare departments and exclude cases under the supervision of county probation departments, out-of-state agencies, state adoptions district offices, and Indian child welfare departments. Data are excluded for cases with unknown placement address. The notation LNE (Low Number Event) refers to data that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 80 total cases.
