90 + REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

 Caseload distribution by district offices
 St. Croix St. Thomas Total

Children receiving service, July 1, 1961 ----------..---------- 276 328 604
Children accepted for service during year ..-----------. ------ 148 154 302
Children receiving service, June 30.1962___. ----------- 389 343 732
Total number of dependent children receiving services during
year -...-------.----------------.------------- 424 482 906

 Whereabouts of children receiving service, June 30, 1962

 St. Croix St. Thomas Total

In home of parents ---..-------------------------------- 176 186 362
In home of relatives ..-------------------- ---------- 68 29 97
In boarding homes -___ --------------------------- --- 60 54 114
In free foster homes--------- ----------------------------- 33 20 53
In adoptive homes..----------------- -------------- 6 15 21
In institutions ---.----------- --------------- 27 37 64
Juvenile Center ------------------- .----- 12 12
Elsewhere... ------------------------------------ 7 2 9
 Total... ------------------------------------ 389 343 732


Foster Family Care
 The program continued actively during the year and remained one
of the most encouraging operations. The foster care caseload was
188 of which 21 were in adoptive homes, 53 in free foster homes, and
114 in boarding houses.

Insular Training Schools

 The schools continued to achieve heartening improvement in serv-
ices and in child and staff morale. The Department of Education
provided academic services to the schools through two full-time
teachers. The Mental Health Bureau of the Department of Health
provided psychological and psychiatric services to the children.
 The Boys School maintained 69 boys, the average age being 14.
Vocational projects such as poultry raising, gardening and animal
husbandry were expanded. Fifteen boys attended high school in
town.
 The Girls School established in March 1958 cared for 17 girls at
an average age of 15 years. Eight girls attended high school in town.
 Detention facilities continued to be an area of great concern to the
Department and to citizens of both islands. A temporary center for
delinquent boys 16 to 21 years of age is still in operation at the fort in
Frederiksted. Funds were appropriated for the construction of a
Detention Center in St. Thomas and construction plans are being
completed. During the year 49 children were in detention care as
compared with 110 in 1961.