Child Protective Services Statistical Report
June 2000

  Current
month
Prior
month
Year
ago
% Change
1 Year
Emergency Response
Emergency Response referrals received-families 759 882 962 -21%
Emergency Response referrals received-children 1,636 1,981 2,398 -32%
  ER Referral children referred for investigation 1,384 1,822 1,750 -21%
  ER Evaluated Outs 252 159 648 -61%
Breakdown of Dispositions (ER, Phone Room, CIU) 1,824 1,656 1,881 -3%
  Sexual Abuse 110 125 236 -53%
  Physical Abuse 369 417 540 -32%
  Severe Neglect 12 8 3 300%
  General Neglect 1,159 944 990 17%
  Emotional Abuse (also Dom Viol cases) 56 51 14 300%
  Exploitation 1 0 2 -50%
  Caretaker Absence/Incapacity (also Pos Tox) 117 111 96 22%
The State's SDM reporting system changed the way some categories report; see EA & CAI.
Jamison
Number of children admitted to Jamison 198 247 183 8%
  Protective Custody/New Intakes 161 210 147 10%
  Change of Placement 37 37 36 3%
Children released from Jamison 220 236 251 -12%
Average day stay in Jamison 8.5 9.9 7.8 9%
Average daily population in Jamison ** 89.9 98.5 80 12%
** 1999 JCC population numbers included "transfer-outs" not taken off the list; today they automatically drop off after 14 days.
Admissions - Breakdown by Age
  0-5 years 66 85 63 5%
  6-12 years 73 86 67 9%
  13-18 years 59 76 53 11%
Court Intake
Number of children referred for investigation 135 181 119 13%
Number of families referred for investigation 74 102 68 9%
Number of petitions filed 85 97 90 -6%
FM/FR/PP
Number of families receiving Family Maintenance 359 361 347 3%
Number of children receiving Family Maintenance ~ 817 816 843 -3%
~ 1999 total adjusted to include actual number of children in both DCC and VFM versus CWS number originally reported.
  Court-ordered Family Maintenance (children) 473 469 593 -20%
  Voluntary Family Maintenance (children) 344 347 250 38%
Number of children in out-of-home placements (FR&PP) !! 2,464 2,432 2,590 -5%
  Number of children in Family Reunification 562 524 608 -8%
  Number of children in Permanent Placement !! 1,902 1,908 1,982 -4%
!! Adjustment made due to clerical error of not including data from combined ILSP/PP unit for month of May.
Number of children reunified with parents 25 21 58 -57%
Number of children referred for adoptive study 25 26 23 9%
Adoption
Total number of children in Adoptive study 507 497 481 5%
  Number of children Free, Not Placed 199 202 110 81%
  Number of children Under Study, Not Free 308 295 371 -17%
Number of Finalized Adoptions 34 24 28 21%
Number of New Adoptive Placements 17 51 36 -53%
Licensing
Number of Licensed homes 415 421 429 -3%
Number of Foster Care applications pending 52 46 48 8%