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CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE
BY TOTAL ETHNICITY*
							Unable to	Total
		White	Black	AIAN 1	ASIAN 2	NAPI 3	Determine	Ethnicity
	Benton	193	10	0	3	6	14	226
	Carroll	35	0	0	0	0	3	38
	Madison	27	0	0	0	0	1	28
	Washington	290	28	0	1	3	9	331
	Area 1 Total	545	38	0	4	9	27	623
	Crawford	130	10	0	1	0	7	148
	Franklin	17	2	0	0	0	0	19
	Johnson	47	4	0	0	3	0	54
	Logan	48	0	0	0	0	0	48
	Scott	14	0	1	0	0	1	16
	Sebastian	254	81	0	2	2	7	346
	Yell	16	1	0	0	0	0	17
	Area 2 Total	526	98	1	3	5	15	648
	Clark	27	18	0	0	0	4	49
	Garland	149	53	0	0	0	9	211
	Hot Spring	41	6	0	0	0	1	48
	Howard	15	17	0	0	0	0	32
	Montgomery	14	1	0	0	0	0	15
	Perry**	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Pike	4	0	0	0	0	0	4
	Polk	45	0	0	0	1	2	48
	Saline	83	2	0	0	0	0	85
	Area 3 Total	378	97	0	0	1	16	492
	Columbia	14	16	0	0	0	0	30
	Hempstead	35	45	0	0	0	3	83
	Lafayette	23	14	0	0	0	0	37
	Little River	21	4	0	0	0	2	27
	Miller	83	63	0	0	0	7	153
	Nevada	5	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Ouachita	15	61	0	0	0	2	78
	Sevier	16	0	0	0	0	2	18
	Union	43	69	0	0	0	1	113
	Area 4 Total	255	273	0	0	0	17	545
	Baxter	50	1	0	1	0	3	55
	Boone	54	1	0	0	0	0	55
	Conway	27	3	1	0	0	2	33
	Faulkner	87	19	0	0	1	7	114
	Marion	61	1	0	0	0	1	63
	Newton	21	0	0	0	0	0	21
	Pope	91	15	0	0	0	4	110
	Searcy	20	0	0	0	0	0	20
	Van Buren	36	0	0	0	0	0	36
	Area 5 Total	447	40	1	1	1	17	507
	Pulaski	250	622	2	0	0	15	889
	Area 6 Total	250	622	2	0	0	15	889
	1 Includes Native American, Alaskan Native, and American Indian.  2  Includes Indochinese, Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese.  3 Includes Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.
	*In August of 1999, the CHRIS information system was enhanced to meet the new federal race and ethnicity guidelines.
	These guidelines allow the selection of more than one ethnicity per child.
	**A supervisor from another county office supervised the staff in the Perry county office.  The primary county for the
	cases appears under the supervisor's county for the reporting period.
AR DHS Statistical Report SFY 2000									3-32
CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE
BY TOTAL ETHNICITY*
							Unable to	Total
		White	Black	AIAN 1	ASIAN 2	NAPI 3	Determine	Ethnicity
	Bradley	24	27	0	0	0	1	52
	Calhoun	5	11	0	0	0	0	16
	Cleveland	20	4	0	0	0	0	24
	Dallas	10	9	0	0	0	0	19
	Grant	31	0	0	0	0	1	32
	Jefferson	80	252	0	0	3	6	341
	Lincoln	20	17	0	0	0	0	37
	Lonoke	46	7	0	0	0	0	53
	Prairie	11	2	0	0	0	0	13
	Area 7 Total	247	329	0	0	3	8	587
	Clay	41	0	0	0	0	0	41
	Craighead	65	19	0	0	0	0	84
	Fulton	44	6	0	0	0	0	50
	Greene	75	1	0	0	0	0	76
	Izard	19	0	0	0	1	0	20
	Lawrence	20	1	0	0	0	0	21
	Mississippi	25	37	0	0	0	6	68
	Randolph	19	0	0	0	0	0	19
	Sharp	32	0	0	0	0	0	32
	Area 8 Total	340	64	0	0	1	6	411
	Cleburne	26	1	0	4	0	1	32
	Crittenden	8	65	0	0	0	2	75
	Cross	11	8	0	0	0	0	19
	Independence	48	14	0	0	0	2	64
	Jackson	11	13	0	2	0	0	26
	Poinsett	44	16	0	3	0	2	65
	Stone	7	0	0	0	1	0	8
	White	95	11	0	0	4	3	113
	Woodruff	2	4	0	0	0	0	6
	Area 9 Total	252	132	0	9	5	10	408
	Arkansas	8	7	0	0	0	3	18
	Ashley	19	49	1	0	0	1	70
	Chicot	4	35	0	0	0	2	41
	Desha	25	27	0	0	0	2	54
	Drew	26	33	0	0	0	0	59
	Lee	8	33	0	0	0	1	42
	Monroe	0	17	0	0	0	0	17
	Phillips	4	41	0	0	0	0	45
	St. Francis	11	51	0	0	0	1	63
	Area 10 Total	105	293	1	0	0	10	409
	State Total	3,345	1,986	5	17	25	141	5,519
	1 Includes Native American, Alaskan Native, and American Indian.  2  Includes Indochinese, Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese.  3 Includes Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.
	*In August of 1999, the CHRIS information system was enhanced to meet the new federal race and ethnicity guidelines.
	These guidelines allow the selection of more than one ethnicity per child.
	**A supervisor from another county office supervised the staff in the Perry county office.  The primary county for the
	cases appears under the supervisor's county for the reporting period.
Source:  Children's Reporting Information System (CHRIS)
AR DHS Statistical Report SFY 2000									3-33