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DFCS outlines corrective‑action progress; proposes community roundtable and school‑based social worker pilot
Summary
DFCS told the committee it has built a CDSS‑supported dashboard, updated policy templates and expanded training as part of its corrective action plan, and it described two community‑facing efforts: a community roundtable to co‑create reforms and a pilot to place county social workers in Franklin‑McKinley schools with a south‑county site to follow.
The Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) briefed the Children, Seniors and Families Committee on corrective‑action work, quality‑assurance tools and two community engagement pilots intended to strengthen child‑welfare practice.
Interim DFCS leadership said the department organized corrective‑action work into three “pillars”: safeguarding children, key partnerships and workforce development. Staff described a new custom dashboard, developed with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) technical assistance, to track mandated assessments such as Structured Decision Making (SDM) safety and risk assessments, risk reassessments and reunification assessments.
Wendy Kinnear (interim DFCS director) said the dashboard is being customized with managers and supervisors to support case‑level compliance and supervision, and that DFCS will refine the…
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