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St. Lawrence County Department of Social Services launches new monthly reporting to legislators


CANTON — After several months of reworking how the Department of Social Services reports information to the St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators, a new framework was rolled out this week.
For more than an hour during the board’s Services Committee meeting Monday night, DSS Commissioner Cynthia M. Ackerman presented data to lawmakers about staffing, caseloads, children in care and case outcomes, mostly related to Child Protective Services and Children’s Services.
County Administrator Ruth A. Doyle, Assistant County Administrator Dylan M. Soper and DSS supervisors and staff worked to compile and track more detailed department data with Ms. Ackerman, who started as commissioner last summer. DSS reports specifically about CPS and Children’s Services were previously delivered periodically in a given year as simple statistics on caseloads and kids in the department’s care. ....

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