State Poverty Rate4…………….……17.0% Poverty Rate, Children Under 185……24.9% Poverty Rate, Children Ages 5–176…..23.3% Poverty Rate, Children Under 57…..28.1%

• In 2011, Florida had 208,437 total referrals for child abuse and neglect. Of those, 167,212 reports were referred for investigation.8 • In 2011, 51,920 children were victims of abuse or neglect in Florida, a rate of 13.0 per 1,000 children, representing a 3.9 % decrease from 2010. Of these children, 55.5 % were neglected, 10.3 % were physically abused, and 4.6 % were sexually abused.9 • The number of child victims has decreased 2.9 % in comparison to the number of victims in 2007.10 • In 2011, 133 children in Florida died as a result of abuse or neglect.11 • In 2011, 19,760 children in Florida lived apart from their families in out-of-home care, compared with 18,753 children in 2010. In 2011, 8,863 of the children living apart from their families were age 5 or younger, and 1,792 were 16 or older.12 • The number of children living apart from their families in out-of-home care has decreased 26.2 % in comparison to the number of children in out-of-home care in 2007.13 • Of Florida children in out-of-home care in 2011, 47.3 % were white, 32.9 % black, 14.1 % Hispanic, 0.2 % American Indian/Alaskan Native, 0.2 % Asian or Pacific Islander and 4.7 % of more than on