Chair Stevens Inquires About Child Protective Specialist Onboarding and Training

Were you also asking about child protective?

Yeah, okay.

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Okay.

Um so the plan doesn't have any new savings there.

We currently have 191 vacancies in the division of child protection.

Um CPS, the actual child protective specialist um budget position is 1,855, and there are 108 that are vacant.

108 that vegan.

Um, what is the civil timeline for frontline staff such as um child protection specialists?

Does ACS perform its own background checks on candidates?

If so, long, how long does it take, and if not, how um does those background checks take place?

There is a background check um prac policy.

Um, it varies by position, what's required, and so it would vary how long it takes.

Do you have like an average?

Six weeks.

It's about six weeks.

Six weeks.

Yeah, expertise.

How does the onboarding typically take place um and try um train a child protective specialist?

And what is the percentage of CPS candidates per um provided job offers actually complete the hiring process and onboarding?

What difficulties has ACS face in hiring those workers and what is ACS doing to address those issues?

So we have a very extensive training program for new CPS.

Um they spend several months at the Satter White Academy.

Um, and that also includes um we have a simulation site where part of the job is practicing what it's like to go to court, what it's like to go to home.

Um, and then they go into a training unit in their offices where they have a small caseload and less complicated cases, and then they go back to training in the academy because they'll have had a better sense of what the jobs like when they've done a few cases and they go back to the academy.

So it takes several months, um, and I think about 75, like route three quarters complete.

Is that right?

Sorry.

Closer to 70 percent, sorry.

Um, those are all the questions I have now.