Causey-Gomez blames staff shortage for slow response to child abuse cases

ST. THOMAS — Human Services Commissioner Kimberly Causey-Gomez is blaming a backlog of cases in its Division of Children and Family Services on a staffing shortage.

“With the exception of the St. Croix District Foster Care and Adoptions Unit, every other unit within DCFS has critical vacancies. Staff in these units are managing an excessive number of cases,” Causey-Gomez said.

Her comments came during a meeting of the Youth, Sports, Parks and Recreation Committee hearing on Friday, where she told senators that the division has a caseload of more than 300 children and families to deal with.

According to Causey-Gomez, the division is divided into two components — Protective Unit and the Foster Care and Adoptions Unit.

There are 115 children and family cases monitored by the Protective Unit in the St. Croix District, and 107 cases in the St. Thomas-St. John District. The Foster Care and Adoptions Unit is currently responsible for 32 cases on St. Croix, and 57 cases in the St. Thomas-St. John District, she said.

Causey-Gomez added that the Protective Unit in the St. Thomas-St. John District operates with a district manager and one family services specialist. The Foster Care and Adoptions Office in that district operates with one social worker and one family services specialist, and is in need of a district manager.

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Update: FDA Takes Key Action by Approving Second COVID-19 Vaccine

For Immediate Release:
January 31, 2022
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a second COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine; the approved vaccine will be marketed as Spikevax for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older.

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Soros calls for regime change in China

Liberal billionaire George Soros called for the replacement of Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, comparing the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.

In a speech delivered at the conservative Hoover Institution, Soros called China the “world’s most powerful authoritarian state” and “the greatest threat that open societies face today.”

Soros claimed that China, “like Germany in 1936,” will “attempt to use the spectacle” of the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games “to score a propaganda victory for its system of strict controls.”

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2,500 BIBLES SENT TO REMOTE TRIBE THAT ONCE KILLED MISSIONARIES

A remote Papua tribe has received 2,500 Bibles 55 years after two missionaries trying to reach them with the Gospel were slain.

Some Yali tribespeople walked an entire day to reach the the Oakbisik airstrip in the mountains of Papua, Indonesia, to receive the shipment of Bibles in their own language from Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF).It was in 1965 that MAF pilots first located the Yali people in the Seng Valley region of Papua after conducting survey flights in what was then Dutch New Guinea. Find Out More From This Source!!