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How is she still running DCF!

myskyegirlmyskyegirl member
edited February 2014 in Parenting
I know this is a Boston thing, but I still have to complain.

Olga Roche is INCOMPETENT, how is she still running Dept of Children and Family???.  It came out a few months ago that a 6 year old boy that should have been monitored by DCF had at that point been missing for 6 months, it's more now.  Just recently another child died while in care at a DCF facility and just today it was found out that a 15 yr old has been missing for 6 weeks. She went before a committee and she was asked if there were anymore children missing and she said NO.  Her excuse wasn't that she lied to the committee, it was that she wasn't asked about any TEENAGERS in DCF care missing, and our governor is still backing her!  


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  • RondackHikerRondackHiker member
    How common is it for kids to go missing in the DCF/CPS system? I mean, I know it should ideally be rare, and that kids going missing and not being noticed/reported should never happen, but I was wondering if anyone knew how often kids drop off the radar.

    I'd imagine the families are more likely to be unstable and may move more frequently, either in with a different relative or to a different area where they may be work or to get away from the CPS investigation. Or sometimes kids might live with mom and dad and then perhaps with another family member for awhile. Ideally CPS would be kept up to date, but I know that for some of the families being investigated that just wouldn't happen.

    I'm curious how common it is for an investigator to go check on a child that is being watched and find the kid is not there/moved/missing either temporarily (living with grandma for two weeks) or more permanently.

    The lady in this article sounds like she should be fired.


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  • myskyegirlmyskyegirl member
    @rondackhiker, I don't know the stats, and I will say in defense of the social workers at DCF, there are more kids than social workers, but it was shown that no social workers ever went to the home of the 5 year old that went missing.  
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    prncebride said:
    @rondackhiker, I don't know the stats, and I will say in defense of the social workers at DCF, there are more kids than social workers, but it was shown that no social workers ever went to the home of the 5 year old that went missing.  
    Ugh. That poor little boy.

    I'm not blaming the social workers at all. I've just heard about missing CPS kids in the past and wondered how many go missing regularly, because a lot of times it seems like there isn't a lot of alarm when a child goes missing. I wasn't sure if it was a common thing and so it got ignored for awhile because the case worker assumed the kid will crop up, or if it's incompetent workers, or overworked workers... likely it's a combination of things.


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    mbenit4 said:


    RondackHiker said:

    How common is it for kids to go missing in the DCF/CPS system?
    It is not uncommon with older children. They will run away. No one reports it because hey they are still getting a check. So if the worker doesn't do a visit then they won't know. Some schools don't report it, etc. The whole system is fucked.

    That's really sad.


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  • willy_gertwilly_gert member
    I work in child welfare and the numbers should be low in terms of kids who are "missing" or AWOL.  Also, if these kids were in the custody of DCF/ CPS that would be different than if their family was being investigated.  I say this because if the child is in DCF custody, they are more than likely out of home and in a foster home, group home, etc.  If they are just being investigated, then they are still home with their families and under their custody and not the states.

    I know that this happened in the '90's in Florida and they had to do a massive overhaul of their child welfare system because there were literally hundreds of children that were "lost" and no one could account for them.

    I work in child welfare in KS and we are privatized, which means the State does the investigating and removal, but a contracted provider does the actual work.  We track our kids, know when they move, where they are, track that our social workers, case managers, and/ or family support staff see the child at least once a month and then report all of that activity to the state.  It works really well here and I know many states are looking at going to a privatized system because their social workers simply cannot keep up with all of the kids.
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  • myskyegirlmyskyegirl member
    I don't blame the social workers, in most of the cases because they are completely overwhelmed, often they have triple the case loads then they should.  I blame the head of DCF who at this point seems to have only collected a check and done nothing else.  
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