December 1 is Worlds AIDS Day. In this episode, we’ll talk with people living with HIV and those who have been on the frontlines providing services and education to battle AIDS in Middle Tennessee since the early days of the virus. We’ll also look at how our understanding of the AIDS epidemic provided a bedrock of understanding when COVID-19 took off.
Working With A ‘Puzzle’ Of State Agencies, Youth Psychiatric Facilities May Fall Through The Cracks
By the time Kingston Academy closed last year, the state of Tennessee had multiple reports of staff violence and at least two child-on-child sexual assaults. Yet it would take damning photos of squalid conditions, taken by a mother of four, to shut the children’s psychiatric facility down.
A Drop In Tennessee Child Abuse Calls Has Leadership Worried About Cases Going Unreported
Since the coronavirus closed Tennessee schools and many day cares, Tennessee’s child abuse hotline has seen a significant decrease in calls. For children’s services leadership, that’s troubling.
13 Teens Who Escaped Woodland Hills Caught, But What Triggered Second Breakout Remains Unclear
On Friday night, a group of 13 juvenile delinquents injured a guard and let themselves out of the same Department of Children’s Services facility where 32 teens escaped under a perimeter fence early this month.
Governor Open to Redux on DCS Oversight
The Tennessee General Assembly may have gone too far with cost-cutting when it wiped out oversight committees looking out for children.
Democrats Worry DCS Will Get Kid-Glove Treatment
The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services is scheduled to update lawmakers on progress toward keeping track of child deaths next week. But Democrats say they don’t expect enough tough questions.
Capitol Hill Conversation – A New Day at DCS
Governor Bill Haslam’s DCS commissioner of two years resigned under mounting pressure over child death records. This week there is an interim at the helm, charged with watching out for Tennessee’s most vulnerable children. Lawmakers described the job as “impossible.”
DCS Interim Asked to Face ‘Brutal Facts’
The temporary head of the embattled Department of Children’s Service said at a legislative hearing he would turn things around, even with the title of “interim.”
DCS Commish Resigns Ahead of Hearing on Child Deaths
The commissioner of an embattled state agency has resigned. Kate O’Day steps down as head of the Department of Children Services one day before she was to testify about child deaths.
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