North Carolina DHHS Updates As Of April 2018 To The North Carolina Joint Legislative Oversight Committee On Health & Human Services

The presentation was civen on April 10, 2018, by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to the North Carolina Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services. DHHS presented information about a situation in Cherokee County in which DHHS determined that it must temporarily assume operations of the county's child welfare system. DHHS determined that the action was needed after learning that county child protective services had been using a foster placement process that impermissibly bypassed the courts . . .