When her middle-school-aged client no longer had transportation to school in Puyallup, Heather Mimms, a caseworker out of the Martin Luther King office in Seattle, began driving the child to and from school herself.
After being discharged from a group home and put in juvenile detention for 10 days, Mimm’s client was moved to Seattle into night-to-night placements.
After nine months as an “unofficial employee” at DCYF, 1-year-old Zoë was joined by colleagues last month during her graduation from DCYF’s Infants at Work Program.
The Infants at Work Program allows eligible DCYF staff to spend time with their infants within the first six months of their life while continuing to work.
Welcome to a new year – 2020! This is the first New Year’s celebration where we are all together as a single agency.
Last month, DCYF announced receiving a $34 million renewal grant to implement the Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5), which allows us to strengthen and build integrated services across early learning a