[exotree]

CPS is very often put in a “damned if you do; damned if you don’t.” Miss _one_ case, and the state is on the hook for millions, a case manager who makes $47k a year at 60 hrs a week with an oversized case load takes on an incredible amount of liability.

My wife worked as a case manager and I worked in a group home from 19-21. It was appalling how cruel and terrible parents (or other relatives) could be. No matter what socioeconomic class you’re in, child abuse is not as uncommon as one would think.

And we haven’t even touched on vulnerable adults….

This particular experience is not an ideal situation. But also, I am concerned by how many commenters believe CPS and their related agencies are completely incompetent or unnecessary.

[joe_the_user]

Miss _one_ case, and the state is on the hook for millions, a case manager who makes $47k a year at 60 hrs a week with an oversized case load takes on an incredible amount of liability.

Yes that's insane but such insanity is hardly an argument for CPS making sane, reasonable decisions. It seems to point in the opposite direction.

But also, I am concerned by how many commenters believe CPS and their related agencies are completely incompetent or unnecessary.

Something like CPS seems necessary but that need doesn't imply that current CPS is competent. It seems like you have a grossly incompetent and abusive system that continuously defends itself by pointing to how necessary it is.

[s1artibartfast]

>Miss _one_ case, and the state is on the hook for millions,

Doesn't the state and its agents have qualified immunity?

[exotree]

It gets a lot murkier for CPS and its varying contractors unlike law enforcement.

https://www.kare11.com/amp/article/news/investigations/mn-su...

[1123581321]

Well, you should be concerned that so many people are hurt by an organization that pays your family. It’s harder for you to see the problem. Believe the people who are describing the abuses, and he willing to support meaningful policy change to protect families and give them a more appropriate degree of rights in family court systems.

[exotree]

Our family is no longer financially reliant on these gov't agencies. It wasn't feasible to work in an environment where the county targeted (again) the health department she worked for budget cuts, which led to higher case loads, higher insurance premiums, longer hours and virtually no chance for raises in the next 2 years at minimum.

Voters chose to not invest in agencies that protect the most vulnerable in the population. As a result, those who remain are overworked, more abuse gets through the cracks, and even the best in this group start to break or start giving up on caring. Pretty big bummer.

[1123581321]

Makes sense--glad she was able to move on.

I understand being missionally invested in the opportunity to work on the bad cases, but, unfortunately, under-funding is almost the only defense voters have against malicious or obtuse family services agents, or bureaucracy with no emergency stop button.