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Table 15.II

Administration for Children's Services. Financial and Service Indicators.

 

  2008 2007 2006
Children in foster care (average) 16,701 16,854 16,659
Children in foster kinship homes 5,399 4,738 4,011
Children in nonrelative foster boarding homes 8,944 9,517 9,809
New children entering foster care 5,843 5,651 4,897
Children who re-enter foster care within a year of discharge to family (%) 11.1 11.4 7.8
Children entering foster care who are placed with relatives (%) 24.3 28.1 25.3
Siblings placed simultaneously in the same foster home (%) 79.7 85.3 90.2
Children in foster care who had two or more transfers from one facility to another 41.4 43.4 45.1
Abuse and/or neglect reports for children in foster care and child care 2,027 1,688 1,551
Median length of stay for children entering foster care for the first time who are returned to parent (months) 9.3 11.5 10.3
Children eligible for adoption 2,098 2,561 2,805
Children adopted 1,472 1,562 1,831
Average time to complete adoption (years) 3.4 3.4 3.5
Children eligible for adoption who are adopted (%) 70.2 61.0 65.3
Agency resources
Expenditures ($millions) $2,854.5 $2,758.7 $2,326.5
Revenues ($millions) $3.8 $2.4 $3.9
Personnel 7,168 6,950 6,682
Overtime paid ($000) $16,925 $23,855 $21,894
   
 
Source:
2009 Mayor's Management Report. Pg.31-33

 

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