Upstate New York

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Regions 1 through 5

Total Number of Children in Care on June 30, 2003 =11,650

Sex

Male

6,346

54.5%

Female

5,304

45.5%


Age

Under 2 Years

892

7.7%

2-5 Years

1,930

16.6%

6-9 Years

1,671

14.3%

10-13 Years

2,300

19.7%

14-17 Years

4,139

35.5%

Over 17 Years

718

6.2%

Mean Age

11.15

Ethnicity

White

5,903

50.7%

Black

3,425

29.4%

Hispanic

705

6.1%

Asian

8

.1%

Interracial

615

5.3%

Other

127

1.1%

Unknown

336

2.9%

None

531

4.4%


Years in Care

Under 2 Years

6,820

58.5%

2-5 Years

3,689

31.7%

6-9 Years

771

6.6%

10-13 Years

267

2.3%

14-17 Years

98

.8%

Over 17 Years

5

.1%

Mean Yrs. in Care

2.46%

Type of Facility

Institution

2,801

24%

Fost. Board Home

6,417

55.1%

Group Residence

194

1.7%

Group Home

620

5.3%

AOBH

184

1.6%

Adoptive Home

756

6.5%

Approved Relative

455

3.9%

Other

223

1.9%


Permanency Planning Goal

Discharge to Parent/Legal Guard.

6,225

5304%

Discharge to PRP

167

1.4%

Discharge to Independent Living

1,285

11%

Discharge to Adoption

2,690

23.1%

Discharge to Adult Cust. Care

124

1.1%

To Prevent Placement

484

4.2%

To Prevent Return to Placement

188

1.6%

Indep Living- Unaccomp Refugee

43

.4%

Protect Child

161

1.4%

No Goal

283

2.4%

Free For Adoption

Free For Adoption

2,549

21.9%

Discharge Goal Not Adopt.

633

24.8%

Adoptive Home Approved

120

4.7%

Child Placed

857

33.6%

Free > 1 Year - No Family

527

20.7%

Not Free/Goal Adoption

774

6.6%

Family Interest in Adoption

26

3.4%


Number of Movements
in Past Years

l

1 Year
3 Years

0

5,359

46%

1,416

12.2%

1

4,047

34.7%

5,124

44%

2

1,401

12%

2,559

22%

3-5

754

6.5%

2,083

17.9%

6 or more

89

.8%

468

3.9%

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12/02/03