As the state begins scheduling shifts for workers to watch the children through the end...
A woman speaks during a town hall discussion of problems related to foster children without permanent placements at the AFL-CIO Hall in Houston on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021.For more than a year, Texas CPS employees have been sounding alarm bells over the state’s practice of lodging dozens of foster children with acute needs in hotels and other temporary housing, overseen by caseworkers who are not trained to care for them and cannot discipline them.
Now, caseworkers are pleading for a solution to the temporary placements — either from Gov. Greg Abbott, who oversees the Department of Family and Protective Services, or from the state Legislature, which will return to Austin next January but plans to host hearings on foster care this summer. “We are doing everything possible to end CWOP,” she said in an email. “Each child and youth in the custody of the state should have an appropriate placement, and not be without placement, and that has always been our policy.”
And there is also the long-term stress: CWOP shifts and other external pressures — including Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent directive to launch child abuse investigations into families of transgender children — have caused rampant turnover, Gedutis said. There’s been a “brain drain” as longer-tenured employees leave and are replaced by inexperienced ones, or are not replaced at all.
CPS supervisors are asking staff to volunteer for the extra shifts through the end of this year, including holidays, Gedutis said. If employees don’t volunteer, they are given mandatory shifts.
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