1. CWS Outcomes System Update: (data through April 1, 2008 ) Racial/Ethnic Disparities (data for CY 2007) Center for Social Services Research University of California at Berkeley The Performance Indicators Project is a collaboration of the California Department of Social Services and the University of California at Berkeley, and is supported by the California Department of Social Services and the Stuart Foundation

2. January 2004-October 2008 California CWS Outcomes System: AB636 Measures, % IMPROVEMENT (+) or (–) indicates direction of desired change Decline in Performance Improvement in Performance

3. January 2004-October 2008 California CWS Outcomes System: Federal Measures, % IMPROVEMENT (+) or (–) indicates direction of desired change Decline in Performance Improvement in Performance

4. October 2008 California CWS Outcomes System: Performance Relative to Federal Standard/Goal Federal Standard/Goal 100%

5. 2007 California: Ethnicity and Path through the Child Welfare System (Missing Values & Other Race Excluded from % Calculations, <18 years of Age)

6. Native American Hispanic Asian/PI 1.00 2007 California: Racial Disparity Indices (group compared to White) UnderrepresentedOverrepresented Black

7. CSSR.BERKELEY.EDU/UCB_CHILDWELFARE Needell, B., Webster, D., Armijo, M., Lee, S., Dawson, W., Magruder, J., Exel, M., Glasser, T., Williams, D., Zimmerman, K., Simon, V., Putnam-Hornstein, E., Frerer, K., Ataie, Y., Winn, A., Blumberg, R., & Cuccaro-Alamin, S. (2008). Child Welfare Services Reports for California. Retrieved July 1, 2008, from University of California at Berkeley Center for Social Services Research website. URL: Barbara Needell bneedell@berkeley.edu 510-290-6334 Presentation Developed by Emily Putnam-Hornstein and Christine Wei-Mien Lou