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Tennessee DCS commissioner highlights caseload cuts, new trafficking unit and workforce supports
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Commissioner Margie Quinn said the Department of Children’s Services has reduced case‑manager vacancies and average caseloads, stood up a specialized human‑trafficking unit and is adding staff supports such as peer counselors and a chaplain program to improve child welfare services.
Commissioner Margie Quinn of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services told attendees at the Resilient Tennessee Collaborative Summit that her agency has made rapid staffing and case‑management gains since she took the job earlier this year.
Quinn said DCS reduced the number of case‑manager openings from about 620 at her arrival to 369 and described that as a roughly 48% reduction in vacancies. She said statewide average foster‑care caseloads now run about 18 children per case manager and that only two regions (Davidson and Mid‑Cumberland) average above 20 cases; she reported the…
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