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Old February 11th 08, 09:30 PM posted to alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.support.foster-parents,alt.dads-rights.unmoderated,alt.parenting.spanking
dragonsgirl
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Default DCF is learning the hard way that employees should have background checks


"LK" wrote in message
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On Feb 11, 1:42 pm, "dragonsgirl" wrote:
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On Feb 11, 11:03 am, "dragonsgirl" wrote:

"LK" wrote in message


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On Feb 11, 12:59 am, "dragonsgirl" wrote:


"Greegor" wrote in message


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DCF is now searching through personnel records of its 13,500
employees,
looking for any red flags. But that needed to happen in November
2006,
when a policy change required that all new employees go through
background screening.


The agency is considered the front line of defense for children who
are
victims of dysfunctional chaos. Displacement is traumatic enough
without
having to fear someone in the system.


DCF is on the right track, making sure it weeds out potentially
dangerous employees. And it's a clear message to other governmental
agencies that deal with children that background checks are
necessary
for all employees.


From the agency viewpoint isn't it good Public Relations
for them to root out their own perverts?


If they find some raging perverts inside their agency
will they announce it publicly? I doubt it.


So they can do their own version of "keep it in the family"
with all of the pervs they find internally, right?


How are they going to test hard enough to
find the perves within their agency?


If some slip through won't it prove that they
don't know their head from their heiney?


If they can't even accurately screen
their own people, how do they pretend
any credibility screening parents?


They don't screen parents.


Maybe they don't call it that.


They take parent's behaviors into account when determining their
ability
to
parent.


And everything else they can find.


***Such as?


Haven't you ever seen one of their initial assessment forms? There
is a whole list of generalized questions on that alone, I'm sure they
differ slightly from state to state, but you can't tell me that the
only thing that they factor in is the behavors of the parents.
Condition of the house, interviews with the children or professional
care providers, etc.

*****No, and I was not implying that the behaviors of the parents are the
only thing that is taken into account.
I was simply pointing out that it is a major factor, nothing more, nothing
less.
I have seen an interview assessment form. I do think that some of the
things on them are off the wall, such as whether or not family lives in
the
vicinity of the parents, but also some of the questions are valid as well,
such as the condition of the home.


Well, when it comes to the behavior of parents, any true professional
would realize that no parent is going to be happy to see them.

****Surely. I would agree with you. No parent would be happy to see social
services knocking on their door.
However, I am not referring to behaviors that are exhibited over the course
of an interview necessarily.
It's easy to imagine, and understand, a person being agitated, sometimes
rude, feeling on the defenseive, etc during an interview.
What is harder to swallow is persistent and extensive drug abuse, outbursts
of anger that cause lack of work, or minor injury to a child, destruction of
property, etc. I am talking about behaviors that are exhibited over time
before, and after social services interviews.
Not during the itnerview itself.
Those behaviors can be seen via police reports, court records, medical
records, etc, and are not based on the opinion of a caseworker, intake or
otherwise.
Some behaviors during an interview can be indicators, though.
Screaming at kids in the presence of a worker?
How about things people say? "I didn't whip Johnny with no belt, it was a
switch off that peach tree", for example.
People say and do stupid things, and sometimes they do them in the presence
of the wrong person...DFS, doctor, LE.
Does it take an assessment form and a genius to figure out there are serious
problems in that case?