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Phoenix61

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1. Funding, funding, funding

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:49 PM

Mar 2017

Money doesn't fix everything but this is a situation where inadequate funding is truly the source of the problem. Not enough workers, abysmal pay for those they have, limited places to put children to keep them safe. I was a CPS investigator for a year and a half in Alabama. My hair started falling out from the stress.

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Children left in unsafe homes by Oregon social workers nearly half the time, report says [View all] TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP

Funding, funding, funding Phoenix61 Mar 2017 #1

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