Desperate to retain the skeleton crew bailing furiously to keep the Office of Youth and Family Services afloat, Lackawanna County commissioners turned to a tried and true remedy of sea
Sometimes, spurring the cavalry to saddle up is a matter of poking the right rumps. In response to Lackawanna County Department of Health and Human Services Director Bill Browning’s desperate plea for help staffing his desolate Office of Youth and Family Services, state officials said consultants — free agents who
In legal briefs, attorneys for five current and former Lackawanna County Office of Youth and Family Services workers accused of abandoning at-risk children to deplorable homes spent a collective 111
Lackawanna County Office of Youth and Family Services caseworkers let children live in homes unfit for humans, failed to properly track cases and conduct interviews and put children at risk,