Re: Toddler thrown onto freeway
Every two years the State Department of Human Services is required by the feds to do an audit of its Child and Family Services procedures. The next audit is due this year. Director Koller was extremely proud of the fact that in that last audit, her department met and in some cases exceeded most of the key criteria. I do give her credit for helping to change the law so that information about certain cases (like Cyrus Belt) are now made available to the public very quickly.
Unfortunately, as is the case with most "standards", just because you meet them doesn't mean that compliance is adequate. And the standards are "baseline" as in, they are the absolute minimum.
As with the case of Cyrus Belt, Shari Rodriguez, Peter Boy Kema and others whose sad stories have been documented by the local press (as well as the countless others who still are part of the system), shouldn't we demand that CPS EXCEED all minimum federal standards, rather than just meet them?
Check out the last audit results and the areas that the department needed to improve on: http://hawaii.gov/dhs/quicklinks/pip/
Every two years the State Department of Human Services is required by the feds to do an audit of its Child and Family Services procedures. The next audit is due this year. Director Koller was extremely proud of the fact that in that last audit, her department met and in some cases exceeded most of the key criteria. I do give her credit for helping to change the law so that information about certain cases (like Cyrus Belt) are now made available to the public very quickly.
Unfortunately, as is the case with most "standards", just because you meet them doesn't mean that compliance is adequate. And the standards are "baseline" as in, they are the absolute minimum.
As with the case of Cyrus Belt, Shari Rodriguez, Peter Boy Kema and others whose sad stories have been documented by the local press (as well as the countless others who still are part of the system), shouldn't we demand that CPS EXCEED all minimum federal standards, rather than just meet them?
Check out the last audit results and the areas that the department needed to improve on: http://hawaii.gov/dhs/quicklinks/pip/
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