Local Data
- Local foster care is up more than 30% in the last decade: March 2024 there were 1,347 Sedgwick County children in out of home placements (DCF Source). This is 32.7% higher than the 1,015 children in foster care for 2014 (DCF ’13 Report).
- More than 1,300 children in Sedgwick County Foster Care: 1,347 as of March 2024 (KS Department for Children and Families).
- Our community is one of the highest per capita in the country (USA Facts).
- Children in our county average 8 placements (Placement Stability for Children Entering Care-SFY23). The rate of moves per 1,000 days spent in care for children in OOH care for 12 months or less. Performance standard is 4.44. Performance Rate as of SFY’23 for SGCO is 7.9
(Statewide= 7.3).
National Data
- Across America, 50% of the homeless⁴ and 60% of child sex trafficking victims⁵ spent time in foster care (⁴National Foster Youth Institute, ⁵National Foster Youth Institute).
- A staggering 90% of youth with 5 or more foster placements will enter the justice system (CJCJ Justice Policy Journal, Fall 2020).
