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Friday, February 12, 2010

This won't happen here...

This won't happen with the new SACWIS system rolling out for Child Welfare in Oregon this July, will it?

Change Child Welfare System - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register: "When county children services agencies find no basis for allegations of child abuse or neglect, they cannot formally close investigations listed on the SACWIS, according to the Dispatch. In fact, when any new information on a case becomes available, a cumbersome system must be used to make changes in computerized files. Change requests must be sent to the state, where they are reviewed and, if appropriate, entered into the SACWIS. That can take as long as six months. In the meantime, information available to local children services workers is incomplete and/or incorrect."

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