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Jackson County DHHS reports improved foster-care permanency after docket consolidation; recruitment for older youth remains a challenge
Summary
DHHS reported reductions in adjournments and faster dispositional hearings after moving abuse-and-neglect cases to a single judge, boosting 12-month permanency rates; staff also described continuing difficulty recruiting foster homes for older youth.
Jackson County Department of Health and Human Services told the Human Services Committee that consolidating abuse-and-neglect cases under a single judge has sharply improved timeliness in child-welfare cases, but county staff said recruitment of licensed foster homes for older youth remains a significant challenge.
A DHHS presenter told the committee the county is part of a multi-county initiative aimed at achieving permanency for children within 12 months. The department requested that all abuse-and-neglect dockets be handled by a single judge to provide consistency. “We shifted all of our abuse neglect cases under one judge,” the presenter said, and since that change they…
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