Members of the Portsmouth community participate in a previous Serve Day at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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PORTSMOUTH Scioto County citizens, along with area churches and their members, will work together on projects and general cleanup within the local community on Saturday, July 10 as part of Serve Day 2021.
Parents, grandparents, and children of all ages are welcome to participate in Serve Day 2021 as part of their or their community church’s Serve Day group.
In recent years, Portsmouth’s Serve Day has seen its’ participants help in general cleanup efforts at Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth-area parks, help build porches on nearby homes, throw parties for children who live in low-income housing developments, offer cosmetic services for patients in nursing homes, volunteer at CRADLE Pregnancy Care Center, and providing dinner for residents of the Alexandria house.
Case workers, foster homes still needed says CPS
By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com
SCIOTO Scioto County Children Services Executive Director Jason Mantell told the CPS Board of Directors of the pressing need for caseworkers and foster homes during a Wednesday meeting.
Caseworkers are being stretched thin, he said, as they take on many more cases than the recommended state average. That state average, anywhere between 12 to 15 cases per worker, is roughly half what Scioto caseworkers are facing.
“It’s a really, really high number,” said Mantell, although the caseload has improved from 45 to 30 for one caseworker. “We’re working to reunite safely, and when we can and when we can’t, we need to take permanent custody.”