FILE - This Friday, March 20, 2020 file photo shows a closed sign near an entrance to a playground at an elementary school in Walpole, Mass., amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Child welfare agencies in the U.S. have a difficult mission in the best of times, and now they're scrambling to confront new challenges during the coronavirus outbreak.
Many agencies, seeking to limit the virus’s spread, have cut back on in-person inspections at homes of children considered at risk of abuse and neglect. Parents of children already in foster care are missing out on weekly visits. Slowdowns at family courts are burdening some of those parents with agonizing delays in getting back their children.
In New York City, the nation’s worst-hit area, child protection staff are instructed mostly to use “virtual visiting,” even while investigating potential risks to a child’s safety. Because of insufficient supplies, she said her staffers sometimes make urgent visits either with no equipment or gear that’s been used.
Teachers and other school employees normally offer a safeguard by reporting suspicious bruises and other warning signs, said McClain of the social workers association.In Fort Worth, Texas, Cook Children’s Medical Center recently admitted seven kids under 4 who suffered severe abuse, including two who died the same day.
“Already some areas are reporting spikes in abuse,” she said. “If caseworkers don’t have that protective equipment, it’s likely we’ll have fewer home visits, and fewer home visits mean more kids at risk.” The disruption of services also can heighten concern about children’s safety. Elizabeth Novotny, a social worker in Northern California’s Santa Clara County, said a boy was recently reunified with his mother, but now a drug-testing program has been suspended that would have let Novotny verify that the mom was staying off drugs.Foster care also is facing upheaval, with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services easing its oversight rules.
Like my mom said about no one visiting nursing homes, 'You realize this means no oversight at all?'
Can Ya'll report 1 story about the American Spirit in all this, instead of SENSATIONALISM!!!? ✌ Now I remember why I stopped following...✌
3. testing and technological tracking is the way out till treatment or vaccine available ? 4. a disinfectant tunnel in every corner of earth to disinfect before entering office or school
we need1.a device to detect corona virus protein or rna through our mobile or may be in our house through cheap kits. 2. a tracking system and mobile app like livemap facebook or google map to detect isolate treat and hospitalize those affected. 3.test & technologically track
the symptoms are fever sore throat cough shortness of breath chestpain we need a livemap realtime of all patients with covid like symptom so that we can easily detect test treat isolate and hospitalize easily.
can we make a universal mobile app through which covid 19 like symptoms can be uploaded by 7 billion people and facebook livemap/ google earth can show where people with symptoms are located. we can test isolate treat them easily
Tell me which houses. I'll go check idc.
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