Kids Count Data Center

Definitions: This is the number of children receiving special education services. The twelve categories are: hearing impairment, mental retardation, speech/language impairment, visual impairment, serious emotional disturbance, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, multiple disabilities, autism and traumatic brain injury.

Data Source: Special Education Unit, Arkansas Department of Education

Definitions: The total number of child maltreatment assessments completed by the Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the Crimes Against Children Division (CACD), and law enforcement, that were determined to be true.

Data Source: Arkansas Department of Human Services' (DHS) Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Annual Statistical Reports

Definitions: The total number of children in foster care (foster home, therapeutic foster home, or residential facility).

Data Source: Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS), Annual Statistical Reports

Definitions: Total number of youths committed to youth services centers.

Data Source: Arkansas Department of Human Services, Annual Statistical Report

Definitions: Persons under age 21 detained, incarcerated, or placed in residential facilities. To preserve the privacy of the juvenile residents, cell counts have been rounded to the nearest multiple of three. "State of Offense" refers to the State where the juvenile committed the offense for which they were being held. The rate is the number of juvenile offenders in residential placement per 100,000 juveniles ages 10 through the upper age of original juvenile court jurisdiction in each State.

Data Source: Sickmund, Melissa, Sladky, T.J., and Kang, Wei. (2005) "Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook." Online. Available: http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/cjrp/

Footnotes: Updated June 2008.
To preserve the privacy of the juvenile residents, state level cell counts have been rounded to the nearest multiple of three. "State of Offense" refers to where the juvenile committed the offense for which they were being held. Figures include persons under age 21 who had been (1) charged with or adjudicated for an offense; (2) assigned a bed in a facility that can hold accused or convicted juvenile offenders; and (3) placed in the facility because of the offense. CJRP does not capture data on juveniles held in adult prisons or jails. Figures include both pre-adjudicated and post-adjudicated individuals. CJRP does not include facilities exclusively intended for drug or mental health treatment even though such facilities may house some offenders. There may, however, be numerous juveniles in residential placement captured by CJRP that were receiving such treatment. State refers to the state where the offense occurred.