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Table 16.II

New York City (NYC)
Administration for Children's Services
Financial and Service Indicators

 
    Fiscal Year  
  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012  
  Children in foster care (average)
16,659
16,854
16,701
16,439
15,895
14,843
14,013
 
  Children in foster kinship homes
4,011
4,738
5,399
5,575
5,559
5,178
4,843
 
  Children in nonrelative
foster boarding homes
9,809
9,517
8,944
8,705
8,367
8,144
7,896
 
  New children entering foster care
4,897
5,651
5,843
5,909
5,676
5,676
5,698
 
  Children who re-enter foster care
within year of discharge to family (%)
7.8
11.4
11.1
14.1
11.0
11.2
10.4
 
  Children entering foster care
placed with relatives (%)
25.3
28.1
24.3
24.5
25.0
27.0
27.1
 
  Siblings placed simultaneously in
same foster home (%)
90.2
85.3
79.7
80.9
83.1
85.0
86.3
 
  Children in foster care with one or fewer transfers from one facility to another
45.1
43.4
41.4
59.2
58.2
57.9
57.8
 
  Abuse and/or neglect reports for
children in foster care/child care
1,551
1,688
2,027
2,340
2,548
2,416
2,223
 
  Median length of stay for children
entering foster care for first time and
returned to parent (months)
10.3
11.5
9.3
8.3
5.3
6.4
5.5
 
  Children eligible for adoption
2,805
2,561
2,098
1,839
1,780
1,697
N/A
 
  Children adopted
1,831
1,562
1,472
1,344
1,156
1,186
1,295
 
  Average adoption
completion time (years)
3.5
3.4
3.4
3.2
3.2
3.0
N/A
 
  Children eligible for adoption
who are adopted (%)
65.3
61.0
70.2
73.1
64.9
69.9
77.3
 
     
  Agency Resources
 
  Expenditures ($ millions)
$2,326.5
$2,758.7
$2,854.5
$2,978.7
$3,015.8
$2,964.2
$2,920.7
 
  Revenues ($ millions)
$3.9
$2.4
$3.8
$4.8
$3.1
$2.8
$8.0
 
  Personnel
6,682
6,950
7,168
7,463
6,564
6,213
$6,196
 
  Overtime paid ($ thousands)
$21,894
$23,855
$16,925
$19,756
$21,811
$20,821
$13,300
 
 


N/A - Not Available

Source:
NYC Mayor's Management Report

 

 

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