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Parent Partnership member urges more compassionate DHS responses and expanded supports
Summary
Amber Adams, a Parent Partnership Board member, shared her family's experience with DHS and urged more empathy, expanded mental-health services and stronger family supports; commissioners praised lived-experience involvement and requested copies of partnership materials.
Amber Adams, a member of OCCY's Parent Partnership Board, told commissioners on June 21 about her family's experience with the Department of Human Services following a domestic-violence incident and her later engagement with home-based services. Adams described an early caseworker interaction that she found lacking and then contrasted…
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