• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Politics / Govt / DHS hires consultant to help streamline cases

DHS hires consultant to help streamline cases

May 11, 2004 By admin

The state Department of Human Services will aim to lift the paperwork burden on social workers, by bringing in an outside firm to streamline the work of documenting cases. D-H-S spokesman Roger Munns says it’s a part of the agency’s pledge to do a better job of protecting children.One of the main elements of that is documentation — hoping to streamline the “fragmented” approach to cases. As laws and policies changed, reports were filed, and updates added to each file, the paperwork grows. He says you know it’s time to take a look at the problem when social workers tell you they spend one-third to half of their time just filling out reports. Munns says the need now is not to throw it out…but to make it all usable. The agency needs someone to take a look at it from the viewpoint of “the life of the case,” so all that documentation makes sense. A Maryland company called The Center for the Support of Families won the bid to handle the challenge. The nearly half-a-million dollars to do it will come from state money appropriated for the revamping of the agency and from federal matching funds. The agreement signed with the company will pay 486-thousand dollars and the streamlining project is to be complete in eight months.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Politics / Govt

Featured Stories

DOT plow crews struggling against blizzard conditions

Iowa delegation breaks along party lines on Trump impeachment vote

Two northeast Iowa men admit to illegally harvesting ginseng

Do you have to pay tax on your stimulus check?

All six in Iowa’s congressional delegation confirm Electoral College results

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Iowa State-Kansas postponed

Iowa-Michigan State postponed

Fire damage to Riverfront Stadium electrical system will cost Waterloo thousands

Iowa State at Kansas State postponed

Iowa State’s Foster to miss remainder of the season

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2021 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC