An Executive Summary of EScore Data for data downloaded June 30, 2008

As of June 30, 2008, 1,690 cases had been entered into the ESCORE platform by a total of 24 counties. A total of 708 cases were terminated at the time of this report, leaving 982 open cases.

Of these 982 open cases, there were 802 cases accepted into service coordination, 41 consultation/linkage cases, 1 family that was not accepted into service coordination, and 138 cases that were pending at the time of this report’s compilation.

These open cases involved 608 males (62%) and 374 females (38%), with an average age of 11.47 years (range: 0-23 years).

The majority of youth were White/Caucasian (67%), with African American youth (11%) and multi-racial youth (9%) making up the two largest minority groups. In addition, 14% of all cases were designated as having an Appalachian ethnic identity.

For those open cases with data entered on referral source (n = 842), the Top 3 primary referral sources for these cases were mental health providers (22%), the juvenile court (21%), and children’s services (14%).

The majority of youth were in the custody of one or both of their biological parents (75%) and were living in their family home (69%) when the service coordination case was opened.