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ATTACHMENT V STAFFING NEEDS The Department's Plan for restructuring is designed to meet the following needs for staff using existing positions rather than requesting the County to create additional positions at a much higher cost. -- Child Protective Services: One Social Work Supervisor III and two Social Workers III are required to meet minimum staffing requirements for services to abused and neglected children as indicated by the State's just-completed review of our program. -- World'are: Two additional positions (not included in the current reclassification request) must be moved into the area of employment programs to meet minimum staffing requirements for implementation of the Department's workfare demonstration project. -- Adult Protective Services: A second Social Worker III is required in Adult Protective Services to handle the caseload which is twice the standard for staff protecting disabled adults from neglect, abuse, and exploitation. -- Adult Care Case Mana~,ement: One additional Social Worker II is needed to provide the new State-mandated Adult Care Case Management Services for rest home residents for which we just received an allocation of $42,000 in State/federal funding. -- CAP Program: One additional Social Worker II case manager is needed in the CAP Program to permit this profit-making in-home se~ice to be provided to 25 of the persons currently on the waiting list so that they can avoid nursing home placement. -- Automation Support: A minimum of two additional positions, one Programmer and one (network support) System Coordinator, are required to permit the Department to provide minimal support to its new PC network and to further develop applications which will increase productivity. The requested reallocations will provide a support to user ratio of only 1/40 while the generally accepted standard is 1/20, -- Preventive Services: A Social Work Supervisor II position is needed to permit the organization of a Crisis and Immediate Services Unit in the new Family and Children's Services Division. This Unit will provide preventive services to families to avoid welfare dependency and child neglect. -- Child Support Services: Additional staff resources (not included in the position reallocation request) need to be allocated to Child Support Services to permit agents to focus activities more effectively on finding and securing support from absent parents. This will enable the Department to address a backlog of cases and avoid or lower welfare payments for children for whom parental support is secured.