Many public and private organizations across the country, including Washington State, are being targeted by a large-scale, highly sophisticated phishing campaign.
Washington State is taking proactive measures to protect state systems, which may require taking certain applications offline temporarily. There is no known indication of state services being impacted at this time.
My name is Elizabeth Morales. My husband is Arnold, and we are Amelia’s parents. Amelia is just a little over a year old now, and she was born with hearing loss, hip dysplasia, knee dislocations and feet deformities.
We started receiving services when Amelia was four months old.
This week is Child Welfare Worker Appreciation Week – an opportunity for our agency to acknowledge the child welfare workforce as a valuable and integral part of communities across the country.
The past several years we have seen a disturbing and growing pattern of children in the foster care system having to stay overnight in a hotel with their caseworker, in a Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) office or a one-night “emergency” placement in a foster home. Each of these situations is a problem.
Gov. Inslee recently announced that most students in Washington should resume remote learning in the fall, which means that the majority of parents will need to continue balancing work and child care. The work of our agency is focused on children, youth and families impacted by these decisions, but it also touches home for many of you as parents or caregivers.
Did you know being absent from school just two days each month for any reason equates to missing 10% of instructional time and valuable information needed to ensure academic progress? Unfortunately, Washington State ranks among the lowest in the country in regular school attendance.
Gov. Inslee’s Stay Home, Stay Healthy order on March 23, 2020, designated Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) sites as essential services during COVID-19.
Dear Child Care Providers,
Thank you for your continued commitment to the children and families in your communities. The Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) knows that this has been a challenging spring and summer for you.
The Performance-Based Standards (PbS) program encourages juvenile justice agencies to provide work opportu
The Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is working with Third Sector to select teams across the agency to identify and incorporate key quality and outcome measures in contracts for client services as part of an agencywide shift to an outcomes-oriented performance-based contracting (PBC) mo