Arizona’s Child Protective Services Poised To Cut Key Services

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Arizona's child-welfare agency is cutting basic services to families and imposing new guidelines that could limit use of other programs in budget-cutting moves that could keep children in foster care longer, according to documents obtained by TheArizona Republic. Among the documents is a recent memo that blames the cuts in services on a projected multimillion-dollar budget shortfall at state Child Protective Services. The state is delaying some services for months and requiring upper-management approval for what just weeks ago had been standard appointments with mentors known as parent aides . . .