Nine jurisdictions show marked improvements in several child welfare measures
ANNAPOLIS, MD (October 5, 2009) – Governor Martin O’Malley tomorrow will honor the directors and staff of nine local departments of social services who have shown marked improvements in several child welfare measures at a recognition event in the Governor’s Reception Room.
The local directors and staff honored at the event have increased family reunifications, increased the number of finalized adoptions, reduced group home placements, reduced the number of children in foster care, and increased the number of children placed in family settings.
Directors from the following jurisdictions will receive citations: Allegany County; Baltimore City; Baltimore County; Carroll County; Charles County; Queen Anne’s County; Washington County; Wicomico County; and Worcester County.
The improvements result from Place Matters – a statewide initiative from the Maryland Department of Human Resources (DHR) – to find permanent families for foster children and safely reduce the number of children in foster care.
WHAT: GOVERNOR MARTIN O’MALLEY TO HONOR LOCAL DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR MARKED IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILD WELFARE
WHEN: TOMORROW, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009 11 a.m.
WHERE: Governor’s Reception Room – State House – Second Floor Annapolis, MD
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Hey, thanks for doing what your paid to do.
ReplyDeleteThey all deserve it. As a Wicomico foster parent I can say that the local Department is a true pleasure to work with.
ReplyDeleteOff the topic but the "Capitalism" movie is playing at Midway Theater. It will not be shown in too many theater's because of the politics.
ReplyDeleteWhat a joke. That's the worse run department in almost the whole state.
ReplyDeleteWay to go!! How many kids were killed this year in the care of foster and adoptive parents? How many kids were left in homes where they were continually beaten and mistreated?
ReplyDeleteHow in the heck do you honor a division that is constantly screwing up? That's like holding an award ceremony for the prisoners because they only killed a few people on the outside and snuck in a few grams of cocaine into the prison.
What a joke and a waste of money.
If it werent for the fact that children under their supervision have died,I would ROFLMAO right about now."Their service to children?" Give me a break-these are the same bureacrats whose incompetence was responsible for a little girl dying in a foster home THEY deemed acceptable.I hope her and other little kids like her haunt these people.they have a lot of nerve accepting "honors" for anything.
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