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Vernon County Family and Children’s services reports caseloads, highlights high-cost youth placements
Summary
Family and Children’s staff reported March child-welfare screening numbers, current placements, youth-justice referrals and continued reliance on out-of-county residential placements; staff flagged high-cost placements as an ongoing budget and service concern.
Family and Children’s staff told the Vernon County Human Services Committee that child welfare referral and placement activity in March included 19 screened-in reports and 29 children in foster care and 29 in kinship placements.
Crystal, who presented the family and children’s update, said the unit screened in 8 reports and screened out 11, for 19 total referrals in March. Staff reported 14 alleged victims among screened-in cases and 18 alleged victims in screened-out cases. Youth-justice referrals and truancy matters also were discussed; staff said delinquency referrals…
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