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Tennessee lawmakers question DCS staffing, contracted residential case management and assessment-bed expansion
Summary
During a Finance, Ways, and Means hearing, officials from the Department of Children’s Services outlined caseload reductions, comparisons between state and private case managers, funding requests for assessment treatment beds and concerns about pay for child advocacy staff and forensic interviewers.
The Department of Children’s Services (DCS) told the House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee on Tuesday that about 44% of its current budget comes from the state, roughly 11% is federal funding, and the remainder is funded through TennCare matching, as lawmakers pressed officials on caseloads, contracts and program capacity.
DCS Commissioner Glenn emphasized plans to expand specialized residential case management and said the agency’s approach pairs specially trained residential case managers, behavioral health specialists and program coordinators with existing foster-care case managers to reduce caseload burdens.
Commissioner Glenn described the difference between contracted case managers who ‘‘serve our foster care families and carry cases’’ and the new residential case managers who ‘‘are going to be…
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