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Coaching and Mentorship Cuts DCFS Social Worker Attrition Rates to 6 Percent for New Hires

June 12, 2018

A couple years ago, our united voice led to an unprecedented strike for child safety, resulting in L.A. County hiring 2,765 additional social workers to alleviate our caseload and help us prioritize children’s needs. However, hiring those social workers wasn’t enough. Keeping those new Read More...

Final Leg of Travel Time Now Covered for DCFS Special Assignments

June 12, 2018

Your union strives to keep money in your pocket – and we did! As we all know, L.A. County is huge – 4,751 square miles in size to be exact, which is a larger land mass than the entire state of Delaware or Read More...

Union Power Is Instrumental in Clearing DCFS Backlog of 2,500 RFAs

June 12, 2018

SEIU 721 is proud to report incredible progress on a major issue affecting L.A. County social workers: Resource Family Approvals. It’s no secret that the RFA backlog was up to 2,500 cases. Indeed, the backlog was a Read More...

SEIU 721 Welcomes Cagle as New LA County DCFS Director

October 5, 2017

We want to welcome Bobby Cagle to the department and look forward to working with him. Mr. Cagle certainly understands what’s at stake – he was in foster care as child and served as a caseworker. As director of Georgia’s child welfare system, Cagle was recognized by child Read More...

SEIU 721 L.A. County DCFS member leaders deliver major workplace safety victories!

February 5, 2016

SEIU Local 721 is leading the way in protecting our members and making our workplaces safe. Working in collaboration with Los Angeles County, our Brothers and Sisters at the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services recently secured a set of victories whose impact Read More...

Raising Up DCFS Social Workers!

July 24, 2015

Raise Up All of LA County has been bargaining since March and the County still hasn't come to the table with a fair deal to alleviate the DCFS understaffing or with a strategy to deliver more Read More...

SEIU 721 Responds to DCFS Audit

June 17, 2015

Attention to all SEIU 721 DCFS CSW members! L.A. County DCFS recently concluded an audit, which found over 800 CSW's claimed weekend and evening mileage incorrectly, or logged into their computer outside of regular business hours without approval. While DCFS was ready to dish out penalties over Read More...

We Are Ensuring Child Safety Through Transparency

June 24, 2014

After lots of hard work by our coalition of children's social workers, Governor Brown signed a bill that will hold our counties accountable for hiring children's social workers. Read More...