STATS on Orphans from talk yesterday @t4acon
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Data from the Child Welfare Dynamic Report System (http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare/default.aspx)
• In a point in time study (July 2009) there were 2,633 kids in the care of the county of orange social service agency
From Childrens Law Center LA (http://www.clcla.org/facts_overview.htm). If you go to this page you can see where they pulled the data from. Good sources.
1. On any given day, half a million abused and neglected children and youth are in foster care in our nation.
2. More than half of foster children spend at least two years in the foster care system, and nearly 20 percent wait five or more years for a ...