Arizona’s Department of Child Safety expects to see an increase in the number of families receiving services in the coming year.
The agency is requesting $27.5 million more for next year’s budget.
A little more than $12.5 million of that will fund services such as family counseling and parenting classes. It will also help remove and place children living in unsafe family situations.
The remaining $15 million will overhaul DCS’s IT system.
DCS was created after Arizona’s Child Protective Services agency ignored thousands of child abuse cases.
