Alaska Office of Children's Services Statistical Information

The Office of Children's Services (OCS) collects data on children and families referred for child protective services and on providers for out-of-home placements.

Statistical information is posted to this page by the 15th of each month in accordance with: Alaska Statutes Sec. 47.05.100, Monthly reports concerning children.

The following data was harvested from the OCS ORCARPT database on January 10, 2023.

Protective Service Reports Screened during December 2022

1,455 Protective Service Reports were screened,
522 Protective Service Reports were screened in (36%)
933 Protective Service Reports were screened out

Table of Protective Service Reports Screened, by OCS Region

Region	Reports Screened	Reports Screened In	Reports Screened Out
Anchorage	464	174	290
Northern	373	139	234
Southcentral	305	104	201
Southeast	163	48	115
Western	150	57	93

Initial Assessments Completed during December 2022

554 Initial Assessments were completed,
126 Initial Assessments were Substantiated (23%),
428 Initial Assessments were Not Substantiated (includes Closed without a Finding).

Table of Initial Assessments Completed, by OCS Region

Region	Completed	Substantiated	Not Substantiated
Anchorage	156	36	120
Northern	169	43	126
Southcentral	117	23	94
Southeast	57	10	47
Western	55	14	41

Children in Out-of-home care during December 2022

Please note that due to administrative processing, there may be a significant lag for entry of discharge data into ORCA, which may affect reporting accuracy for recent months.

2,840 Children were in Out-of-home care during the month; of these children 1,923 were Alaskan Native/American Indian (68%)
71 children were removed from their home; 48 of these were Alaskan Native/American Indian (68%),
67 children were discharged from Out-of-Home care; 51 of these were Alaskan Native/American Indian (76%)

Table of Children Out of Home, by OCS Region

Region	Out of Home	Removed from Home	Discharged from OCS Care
Anchorage	1,024	29	30
Northern	537	21	6
Southcentral	774	14	22
Southeast	178	5	7
Western	327	2	2

Providers who were Licensed during December 2022

There were 1,400 licensed homes during all or part of the month, including the following:

634 Non-Child-Specific Foster Homes (94 of which met the standard for the Indian Child Welfare Act),
561 Child-Specific Foster Homes,
114 Non-Child-Specific Foster Group Homes (561 of which met standards for the Indian Child Welfare Act),
26 Child-Specific Foster Group Homes,
15 Child Placement Agencies,
37 Residential Child Care Facilities,
11 Residential Psychiatric Treatment Centers,
2 Maternity Homes,
0 Tribal Foster Homes,
0 Independent Living Programs,
0 Assisted Living Facilities.

Resources

Glossary of OCS terms.