Definition: Percentage of children ages 0-17 discharged from foster care to reunify with their families who re-enter foster care less than 12 months from their date of discharge (e.g., among California foster children reunified with their families in 2017, 11.4% re-entered foster care within a year).
Data Source: Webster, D., et al. California Child Welfare Indicators Project Reports. UC Berkeley Center for Social Services Research (Jul. 2019).
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. The notation S refers to data that have been suppressed because fewer than 40 foster children reunified with their families.
