| FOSTER FAMILY HOMES STATISTICAL DATA | ||||||||||
| Foster Family-Home Program | ||||||||||
| Foster families are an integral part of the DCFS delivery system. Foster families provide an essential substitute family-life experience to children for whom DCFS has been given responsibility by the court. Foster parents serve as substitute parents until a child's own parents can be helped to assume responsibilities as parents or a decision is reached to free the child to form new family ties with relatives or an adoptive family. Relatives may be considered for approval as kinship foster homes for children who are in the custody of the state. The numbers that follow include that population. | ||||||||||
| FOSTER FAMILY HOMES | ||||||||||
| DCFS Foster | Foster Homes | Foster Homes | DCFS Foster | |||||||
| Homes as of | Added During | Closed During | Homes as of | |||||||
| June 30, 1999 | SFY 2000 | SFY 2000 | June 30, 2000 | |||||||
| Benton | 21 | 18 | 0 | 39 | ||||||
| Carroll | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Madison | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| Washington | 18 | 23 | 0 | 41 | ||||||
| Area 1 Total | 42 | 47 | 0 | 89 | ||||||
| Crawford | 11 | 7 | 0 | 18 | ||||||
| Franklin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| Johnson | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| Logan | 9 | 6 | 0 | 15 | ||||||
| Scott | 8 | 2 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Sebastian | 25 | 9 | 0 | 34 | ||||||
| Yell | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Area 2 Total | 56 | 26 | 0 | 82 | ||||||
| Clark | 5 | 4 | 0 | 9 | ||||||
| Garland | 16 | 17 | 0 | 33 | ||||||
| Hot Spring | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Howard | 4 | 8 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
| Montgomery | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| Perry* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Pike | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Polk | 5 | 4 | 0 | 9 | ||||||
| Saline | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | ||||||
| Area 3 Total | 49 | 44 | 0 | 93 | ||||||
| Columbia | 12 | 6 | 0 | 18 | ||||||
| Hempstead | 16 | 10 | 0 | 26 | ||||||
| Lafayette | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Little River | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Miller | 6 | 5 | 0 | 11 | ||||||
| Nevada | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Ouachita | 13 | 7 | 0 | 20 | ||||||
| Sevier | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Union | 7 | 5 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
| Area 4 Total | 67 | 41 | 0 | 108 | ||||||
| Baxter | 12 | 3 | 0 | 15 | ||||||
| Boone | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Conway | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Faulkner | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | ||||||
| Marion | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 | ||||||
| Newton | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| Pope | 4 | 8 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
| Searcy | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||||||
| Van Buren | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Area 5 Total | 45 | 29 | 0 | 74 | ||||||
| *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 | 3-50 | |||||||||
| FOSTER FAMILY HOMES | ||||||||||
| DCFS Foster | Foster Homes | Foster Homes | DCFS Foster | |||||||
| Homes as of | Added During | Closed During | Homes as of | |||||||
| June 30, 1999 | SFY 2000 | SFY 2000 | June 30, 2000 | |||||||
| Pulaski | 134 | 75 | 0 | 209 | ||||||
| Area 6 Total | 134 | 75 | 0 | 209 | ||||||
| Bradley | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Calhoun | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Cleveland | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| Dallas | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| Grant | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Jefferson | 35 | 8 | 0 | 43 | ||||||
| Lincoln | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 | ||||||
| Lonoke | 7 | 9 | 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Prairie | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Area 7 Total | 63 | 32 | 0 | 95 | ||||||
| Clay | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| Craighead | 14 | 8 | 0 | 22 | ||||||
| Fulton | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Greene | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 | ||||||
| Izard | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| Lawrence | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Mississippi | 8 | 8 | 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Randolph | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Sharp | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Area 8 Total | 40 | 24 | 0 | 64 | ||||||
| Cleburne | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Crittenden | 11 | 2 | 0 | 13 | ||||||
| Cross | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Independence | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 | ||||||
| Jackson | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Poinsett | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Stone | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| White | 8 | 2 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Woodruff | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Area 9 Total | 39 | 11 | 0 | 50 | ||||||
| Arkansas | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Ashley | 12 | 11 | 0 | 23 | ||||||
| Chicot | 10 | 5 | 0 | 15 | ||||||
| Desha | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Drew | 19 | 10 | 0 | 29 | ||||||
| Lee | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||||||
| Monroe | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Phillips | 17 | 2 | 0 | 19 | ||||||
| St. Francis | 15 | 9 | 0 | 24 | ||||||
| Area 10 Total | 93 | 48 | 0 | 141 | ||||||
| Out of State | 12 | 14 | 0 | 26 | ||||||
| State Total | 640 | 391 | 0 | 1,031 | ||||||
| *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 | 3-51 | |||||||||