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Social Services seeks more outreach staff, kinship support amid rising need and hotel sheltering
Summary
The Department of Social Services told the County Council it processed roughly 40,000 new economic benefit applications last year, is second in caseload for Family Investment Administration benefits in the state, and is requesting budget support for homeless outreach and kinship navigation.
Rachel McConachie, director of the Anne Arundel County Department of Social Services, told the County Council on May 15 that the department handled more than 50,000 face‑to‑face customer interactions and processed nearly 40,000 new economic benefit applications in the prior fiscal year.
McConachie described the agency’s structure — child protective services and child welfare, family investment administration economic services, community initiatives (including homeless services) and administrative services — and said the county supplies roughly 92 county positions while the…
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