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Orange County Board of Commissioners Action Agenda Item No._=.. Action Agenda Item Abstract Meeting Date: August 3, 1995 SUBJECT: Additional Permanent Hours for Social Worker H Position DEPARTMENT: Social Services PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Marti Pryor-cook TELEPHONE NUMBER Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-5401 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 Purpose: To consider changing a permanent part-time 32 hours per week(.80 full-time equivalent) Social Worker II position to permanent full-time 40 hours per week(1.00 full-time equivalent). Background: The Social Worker II position in the Family Services Unit is vacant. Before recruitment to fill the position, this request is to increase the position's hours by eight hours (20 full-time equivalent). The Social Worker II position is responsible for training foster parents, initial licensing, annual relicensing, and ongoing supportive case management. The additional hours are needed to address the formal training that is required for foster parents and encouraged for adoptive parents to assist them to develop the skills necessary to serve children who have experienced varying degrees of emotional and physical trauma. The primary outcome expected from the additional hours is a 40% - 50% reduction in disrupted placements. Children are moved from home to home when foster parents are not trained and supported to handle the behaviors that many abused and neglected children exhibit when they are removed from their original homes. As such, inservice training must be an essential component of foster care services. Funding for the additional hours is available in the department's current budget. The DSS Board approved this request at its July 1995 meeting Recommendation: The manager recommends that the Board approve changing the social Worker II position from permanent part-time 32 hours per week to permanent full- time.