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2000 Jordan Institute
for Families
Vol. 2,
No. 2
April 1997
Length of Stay in Foster Care: How Does North Carolina Compare?
How does North Carolina match up to other states when it comes to the length of time children spend in state custody? The figures in the following table represent the median length of stay during 1988-93. The median length of stay in North Carolina in April 1997 was 17.3 months.
| State |
Months
in Care
|
| Texas |
8.7
|
| Michigan |
12
|
| North Carolina |
18
|
| California |
18.1
|
| New York |
24.5
|
| Illinois |
35.8
|
Sources
Multistate Data Archive and the N.C. Child Welfare Database.
© 1997 Jordan Institute for Families