Division of Children and Family Services Advocacy Council
About the Board
The DCFS Advocacy Council works to further the Division’s message and help provide a voice to the Division’s various initiatives, successes, and needs. Council members include representatives from the juvenile courts, juvenile justice, CASA, prosecuting attorney’s office, faith based communities, medical, behavioral /mental health, women and children’s health, law enforcement, higher education, K-12 education, the Commission on Child Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Family as well as foster care alumni, a foster parent, a biological parent, a current youth in care.
DCFS provides the Advocacy Council with a wide array of information for the Advocacy to then consider, offer feedback, and/or disseminate among their peers. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Proposed policies
- Demographics and statistics on children and families receiving services
- Data on outcomes of services
- CQI Committee reports, Risk Management reports, QA reports and other reports issued by or about DCFS
- Plans and status reports on implementation of plans
- Budgets
- Information on allocation of staff and workloads
- Information on services purchased
