{"id":30035,"date":"2011-06-16T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=30035"},"modified":"2011-06-16T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:11:30","slug":"cyfd-has-too-many-supervisors-not-enough-caseworkers-audit-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/06\/cyfd-has-too-many-supervisors-not-enough-caseworkers-audit-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"CYFD has too many supervisors, not enough caseworkers, audit finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyfd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Children, Youth and Families Department<\/a> has too many supervisors and not enough caseworkers, an audit conducted for state lawmakers says.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/Local%20News\/Audit--Shuffle-workers-at-CYFD\" target=\"_blank\">The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>, which reported on the audit today.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAccording to the report, the division has one supervisor for every 3.65 caseworkers, significantly below the 1-5 ratio recommended by the Child Welfare League of America. The state agency on Wednesday estimated its supervisor-to-caseworker ratio at 1-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, the agency is losing workers. In 2010, the division\u2019s turnover rate was 18 percent, which has dropped since then to 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, the backlog of pending investigations in the Protective Services Division grew from 38 in July 2010 to 108 in January 2011, the report says.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s also this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe people who investigate child-abuse allegations for the Protective Services Division of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department are carrying \u2018dangerously high\u2019 caseloads due to a combination of a state hiring freeze and high turnover, Legislative Finance Committee analyst David Weinberg told state lawmakers Wednesday.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/Local%20News\/Agency-balks-at-releasing-child-case-reviews\" target=\"_blank\">a separate article<\/a>, the newspaper reported that the department\u2019s Protective Services Division conducts 10-12 \u201ccritical incident reviews\u201d a year \u2013 reviews of cases in which a child is seriously injured or dies \u2013 to determine how the cases were handled.<\/p>\n<p>CYFD won\u2019t turn those reports over to lawmakers, invoking attorney-client privilege to keep them secret. Sharing the reports with lawmakers would be giving up that privilege, Cabinet Secretary Yolanda Berumen-Deines was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Berumen-Deines told lawmakers the reports are used \u201cto assess the liability of the agency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s Children, Youth and Families Department has too many supervisors and not enough caseworkers, an audit conducted for state lawmakers says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-30035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}