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Botetourt DSS reports caseload numbers, program mix and shortage of resource homes
Summary
The county's Department of Social Services reported program caseloads, described benefit and protective services, and urged community members to consider becoming resource (foster) homes.
Dr. Raquel Rogers, director of Botetourt County Department of Social Services, gave an overview of the department's programs, caseloads and staffing at the board's meeting and asked the community for help recruiting resource (foster) homes.
Rogers said the department serves 17,836 residents in its family services and benefit programs and that average monthly issuances to residents total about $296,800. She described three divisions in the local agency ' administration, family services and benefit programs ' and explained that the office is a non-deviating local agency that follows the Virginia…
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