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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
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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
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.
joemagruder@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