By Lola Duffort/VTDigger With close to 3,000 unhoused Vermonters slated to leave a state-run motel program in two waves over the spring and summer and local shelters already full, the state is beginning to sketch out an emergency response — […]
Tag: Department for Children and Families
Prosecutors split on criminalizing serious threats to social workers and others
By Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger Trissie Casanova, a social worker, testifies Wednesday , Feb. 3, at the State House about threats to Department for Children and Families employees. Casanova and others seek stricter penalties for assaulting social workers. By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org […]
Gov. Shumlin to request additional resources for state child welfare
In response to the urgent and growing demand for child protection services largely driven by the opiate addiction crisis affecting Vermont and other states, on Dec. 3 Gov. Peter Shumlin outlined a comprehensive proposal to enhance Vermont’s child welfare system. […]
Woman angered by recent loss of custody allegedly killed four
By Elizabeth Hewitt and Erin Mansfield, VTDigger.org An employee of the Department for Children and Families was shot twice and killed in Barre on Friday afternoon, Aug. 7, allegedly by a mother who had recently lost custody of her 9-year-old child […]
DCF rolls out new policies for reporting suspected child abuse
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org The Department for Children and Families is reaching out to mandated reporters of child abuse across the state to inform them of policy changes related to the implementation of Act 60. The new law took effect […]
DCF report shows high demand for emergency housing vouchers
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org A report from the Department for Children and Families shows more Vermonters are relying on emergency housing vouchers. According to the report submitted to the Legislature last week, the department received 15,431 applications for emergency housing […]
Report: number of children in state custody up by 33 percent
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org The number of Vermont children in the custody of the Department for Children and Families (DCF) has jumped by a third since the beginning of 2014, according to a report published this week. The child abuse […]