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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F9
Findings and Recommendations 9 findings
F1
San Luis Obispo’s In-Home Supportive Services program provides essential care for almost 1800 vulnerable (disabled, elderly or blind) and low-income citizens and does so at substantially less cost than institutional care.
No recommendations for this finding
F2
In SLO County about 60% of clients are under age 65, all of those disabled in some way. In contrast statewide almost 60% of the clients are over 65. In this county about 8% of the caseload are children.
No recommendations for this finding
F3
The program provides employment, at $10 per hour, for caregivers who may be relatives or friends of the clients.
No recommendations for this finding
F4
Staff social workers in IHSS are competent and experienced.
No recommendations for this finding
F5
Recently, several Social Worker positions assigned to IHSS were eliminated; as a result caseloads have increased dramatically as a direct result of budget reductions.
No recommendations for this finding
F6
The equipping of social workers with laptop computers (2009) should allow them to work more efficiently.
No recommendations for this finding
F7
Once hired, IHSS caregivers are subject to minimal oversight by DSS staff.
No recommendations for this finding
F8
Inherent strengths of the IHSS program (e.g. many care-providers are the devoted children, parents or spouses of clients, while others are long trusted friends or neighbors) simultaneously leave the IHSS clients open to undetected abuse. 9. “Registry” care-providers are subject to criminal investigation background screening, but not to finger printing.
No recommendations for this finding
F10
Most care-providers, those not on the Registry, are subject neither to criminal background checks nor finger printing.
Related Recommendations (2)
R1
The county should conduct criminal background checks (and or finger printing) for all IHSS care providers who are not related to clients.
R2
If recommendation #1 (above) is not implemented the county should facilitate a system by which clients and/or potential care providers could undergo those procedures at their own expense and then have the results of it entered into their IHSS records, where potential clients could consult those results.
No Responses Found 1
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San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors
Elected County Office