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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, 2000		SFY 2001		SFY 2001		June 30, 2001
	Benton		39		15		28		26
	Carroll		3		2		3		2
	Madison		4		2		1		5
	Washington		42		18		23		37
	Area 1 Total		88		37		55		70
	Crawford		18		11		3		26
	Franklin		2		3		1		4
	Johnson		2		4		0		6
	Logan		14		3		7		10
	Scott		10		1		2		9
	Sebastian		35		12		15		32
	Yell		1		3		1		3
	Area 2 Total		82		37		29		90
	Clark		9		5		3		11
	Garland		33		8		12		29
	Hot Spring		8		5		3		10
	Howard		12		4		6		10
	Montgomery		5		2		2		5
	Perry*		0		1		0		1
	Pike		1		2		0		3
	Polk		10		1		3		8
	Saline		13		8		2		19
	Area 3 Total		91		36		31		96
	Columbia		18		4		11		11
	Hempstead		25		2		6		21
	Lafayette		10		1		5		6
	Little River		4		1		0		5
	Miller		12		6		5		13
	Nevada		3		0		2		1
	Ouachita		19		0		11		8
	Sevier		4		0		0		4
	Union		12		1		6		7
	Area 4 Total		107		15		46		76
	Baxter		14		6		9		11
	Boone		4		3		1		6
	Conway		4		2		3		3
	Faulkner		14		5		8		11
	Marion		9		4		2		11
	Newton		5		2		3		4
	Pope		12		2		4		10
	Searcy		7		1		5		3
	Van Buren		4		2		3		3
	Area 5 Total		73		27		38		62
AR DHS Statistical Report SFY 2001										3-52
FOSTER FAMILY HOMES
			DCFS Foster		Foster Homes		Foster Homes		DCFS Foster
			Homes as of		Added During		Closed During		Homes as of
			June 30, 2000		SFY 2001		SFY 2001		June 30, 2001
	Pulaski		209		68		17		260
	Area 6 Total		209		68		17		260
	Bradley		10		4		4		10
	Calhoun		4		0		2		2
	Cleveland		5		1		2		4
	Dallas		5		4		2		7
	Grant		3		3		1		5
	Jefferson		43		8		4		47
	Lincoln		8		2		5		5
	Lonoke		16		8		6		18
	Prairie		1		0		1		0
	Area 7 Total		95		30		27		98
	Clay		2		2		1		3
	Craighead		22		8		11		19
	Fulton		3		2		1		4
	Greene		8		5		4		9
	Izard		2		0		0		2
	Lawrence		7		1		2		6
	Mississippi		15		8		4		19
	Randolph		3		1		2		2
	Sharp		3		0		0		3
	Area 8 Total		65		27		25		67
	Cleburne		3		3		3		3
	Crittenden		13		4		5		12
	Cross		6		1		2		5
	Independence		9		2		4		7
	Jackson		5		0		1		4
	Poinsett		2		2		3		1
	Stone		1		2		2		1
	White		10		5		4		11
	Woodruff		1		0		0		1
	Area 9 Total		50		19		24		45
	Arkansas		6		3		2		7
	Ashley		22		4		12		14
	Chicot		15		2		2		15
	Desha		10		2		3		9
	Drew		29		3		9		23
	Lee		9		0		2		7
	Monroe		6		0		2		4
	Phillips		19		1		5		15
	St. Francis		23		7		2		28
	Area 10 Total		139		22		39		122
	Unknown		26		7		4		29
	State Total		1,025		325		335		1,015
Source:  Children's Reporting Information System (CHRIS)
AR DHS Statistical Report SFY 2001										3-53