Let me give you some faces DCFS Neglected to care for while these children where on their watch.
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| A personal touch from the victim I know |
You ask how I know cause I am also know a victim of DCFS. Below are sencitive pictures and a video of my friend.
Click here to watch a victim of DCFS tell his story
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| Mom threw boiling water on him while a DCFS agent was present |
Hoping to stave off planned layoffs, more than 300 Illinois child-protection
workers called for Gov. Pat Quinn to save their jobs during a rally Wednesday in
downtown Chicago.
“Who protects the children?” the demonstrators chanted.
“We do! Save jobs! Save the kids!”
The rally at the Thompson Center was
held less than two weeks before 375 positions at the Illinois Department of
Children and Family Services are due to be eliminated.
A nearly $90
million cut in the agency’s budget this fiscal year has forced the layoffs.
DCFS Director Richard Calica said he has no choice but to cut
caseworkers in the voluntary intact family services program, credited with
helping to reduce foster care rolls through linking struggling parents with
needed services.
Members of the American Federation of State, County, and
Municipal Employees said that without the program the alternative is to remove
those at-risk kids from their homes at greater expense to the
state.
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| Was taken away from parents who abused drugs now she is dead |
Quinn signed the state budget in July but proposed shifting about
$57 million to DCFS in savings that he said could come from his plan to close
some state prisons and juvenile facilities.
His recommendation, though,
needs legislative approval. Lawmakers, some opposed to closing facilities in
their districts, won’t return to Springfield until after the layoffs in late
November.
“I think children are far more important than keeping
half-empty facilities open,” Quinn told reporters Wednesday. “I think it’s much
better to help people than keep facilities open that aren’t needed.”
The
demonstrators were joined by some Chicago Teachers Union organizers, who spoke
of strength in solidarity.
Tammy Harvey, a longtime DCFS employee,
clutched a doll that workers use when interviewing children as a tool to
demonstrate abuse. She said her job is on the chopping block.
“I always
say this job is like a calling,” she said through tears. “You really have to
care about people and want to help them to make the change that will keep their
family together.”
Last year, 4,600 families with more than 14,000
children received intact family services. DCFS workers handled 80 percent of the
cases while the remaining 20 percent were referred to private
agencies.
The Tribune reported earlier this month DCFS plans to lay off
all state intact family workers and direct private agencies to handle all future
cases.
At least 1,500 fewer families will receive the voluntary services
as a result, the newspaper found, a 33 percent reduction. Calica agreed more
kids will be removed from their homes as an alternative.
“Without us,
vulnerable and needy families will be left without what is sometimes the only
support they have,” said Sharon Moriarty-Cordin, who said this is the fourth
time she has faced a layoff in her 12 years at DCFS.
DCFS administrators
estimate 285 workers will lose their jobs along with another nearly 100 unfilled
positions. There’s a chance administrators could delays
Oaklawn Illinois Cook County at the intersection of 95th Street and Cicero Ave. Noticed the camera and the route signs and the sign under the ped light no look at the pic to the left. This is what the state law says a town, city, village should have so the motorists know not to turn right on red.
